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For it is not what happens to us that determines our character, our experience, our karma, and our destiny — but how we relate to what happens.

By Lama Surya Das
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Lama Surya Das is an American poet, author, and Western Buddhist meditation teacher and scholar. He is one of the main interpreters of Tibetan Buddhism in the West and is a leading spokesperson for American Buddhism. He is also the founder of the Dzogchen Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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