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...doled out $8.96 billion on purchases—a six percent increase from the same day last year, according to Chicago-based consumer data collection firm ShopperTrak. Yet some view the consumption frenzy encouraged by Black Friday sales as problematic. Lama Surya Das, a Buddhist leader who heads the Dzogchen Center in Cambridge, views after-Thanksgiving sales as a “surfeit of materialism,” and instead advocates “Buy Nothing Day.” “I think we’re becoming somewhat of a throw-away society rather than valuing things...
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Type of Buddhism: Dzogchen, Tibetan Rime (non-sectarian...
...Dzogchen Center holds weekly sittings every Monday night at 7:30 p.m. just a hop, skip and a jump from Harvard Square. The Dzogchen tradition hails from Tibet but, according to Lama Surya Das (via the Center’s website), “was a secret teaching in the East, almost unknown even to Tibetans.” It is focused “not on oriental Buddha, not on historical Buddha, not one of stone, not male or female, but the Buddha nature within each of us, true and wise, loving and compassionate.” Some Tibetan...
...with sticks if you feel you are about to doze off), Americans are trying Vipassana (which begins by focusing on your breath), walking meditation (at first walking really, really slowly and then being hyperaware of each step), Transcendental Meditation (or TM, repeating a Sanskrit syllable over and over), Dzogchen (cultivating a clear but even-keeled awareness) and even trance dance (spinning with a blindfold on for an hour to dance music). And early next year a new book, Eight Minutes That Will Change Your Life, by Victor Davich, will advocate the most American form of meditation yet: a daily practice...