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for Lama Surya's evening presentation on January 28th and one-day retreat on January 29th.

Lama Surya Das will be leading his annual Spring Retreat at the Institute for Mentalphysics in Joshua Tree, CA from March 12th to 20th.

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A new article by Lama Surya just appeared in the Huffington Post: The Dragon, The Elephant and Regulated Capitalism - Sober Reflections on the Awakening of the East in the New Millenium.

See the newly published article by Pilar Jennings PhD on Huffington Post "Ushering Wellness: the Convergence of Buddhism and Psychoanalysis"

Contemplative neuroscientists believe it can. So says CNN, in this report on the ground-breaking research being done by Dr. Richard Davidson and others on the beneficial effects of meditation practice.

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Read Lama Surya's latest article here on the Huffington Post.

The regularly scheduled group in Orange County will not be meeting on Sunday 31st. October 2010, due to attendance at the Dzogchen Center Advanced Retreat in Texas. Regularly scheduled meetings will resume on Sunday 14th November.

Best wishes to all!

On 19th September 2010, His Holiness the Gyalwang Drukpa Rinpoche, founder of Live To Love, a new world-wide charity specializing in building the world's most advanced eco-friendly schools and teaching young women leadership skills, received the United Nations' Millennium Development Goal (MDG) Award today for those ongoing efforts.

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