Lama Surya Das LIVE on KPFA 94.1
San Francisco, 9/25/2011
Lama Surya Das will be interviewed in a LIVE interactive radio show “The Week Starts Here”, hosted by Veronica Faisant on Sunday, September 25, 2011 at 8pm PST. Listeners in all time zones can tune in on the web at www.kpfa.org, and San Franciso radio listeners can tune in to FM 94.1- KPFA. Callers can submit live questions via Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/KPFA.VF.
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Today the human soul asks the question: What can I do to preserve the beauty and wonder of our world and to eliminate the anger and hatred and inequality that inevitably causes it-- in that part of the world which i touch?
...What can you do TODAY, this very moment?"
-- The Dalai Lama, Sept. 11, 2001
Lama Surya Das LIVE on KPFA 94.1 San Francisco, 9/25/2011
Lama Surya Das will be interviewed in a LIVE interactive radio show “The Week Starts Here”, hosted by Veronica Faisant on Sunday, September 25, 2011 at 8pm PST. Listeners in all time zones can tune in on the web at www.kpfa.org, and San Franciso radio listeners can tune in to FM 94.1- KPFA. Callers can submit live questions via Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/KPFA.VF.
Sunday, Sept. 25 www.kpfa.org
8:00-8:30PM PST 9:00-9:30PM MST 10:00-10:30PM CST 11:00-11:30PM EST
On Faith, the Washington Post’s religion website invited me, along with a diverse group of the country’s most prominent religious leaders, to reflect on the spiritual impact of 9/11, and share what we have learned about religion in the past ten years. See full article on Washington Post.
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