Sunday
Lonely Together: The ROW Sangha Gathers
Gordon Shotwell describes the first annual gathering for graduates of Rights of Warriorship.
“The nature of the ROW sangha is that we are committed to respecting one another’s capacity to be lonely.”
-Corey Kohn
For more than twenty years, Rites of Warriorship (ROW) has been the entry point for young people into the adult Shambhala world. ROW is one of the most intense and profound programs offered in the Shambhala mandala. The program is only available to young people and is also the only secret program which exists outside the auspices of the office of practice and education. As a result, the paths of practice available to ROW graduates cannot really recognize the experience and training which they have received. Sometimes people go through the Sun Camp and ROW path and come out of it with enough inspiration and meekness to persist and find a path of practice within Shambhala, but more often than not people finish ROW and then feel fundamentally out of place and alien outside of the Sun Camp mandala. Continue…
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1 response - Posted 01.09.10
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Sun Camp was the most important part of my life as a young adult. It felt as though I did all of my growing up during two short weeks in August, and then spent the rest of the year processing. I was obsessed with camp. I ...continue