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Author: David Whitehorn

Number of entries: 14
Email: davidwhitehorn@eastlink.ca
Web: http://www.shambhala.org/community/aging/index.php

David Whitehorn (Mountain Drum) is Chair of the Shambhala Working Group on Aging and a member of the Sakyong's Council, the Community Care Council and the Desung Council. He lives in Halifax.

Jan 04
Monday

Service & Shambhala Households

Filed under Opinion Pieces


By David Whitehorn

Contemplating the Sakyong’s talk on Shambhala Households, I found myself thinking about the practice of service. Service is such an integral part of Shambhala that it is often taken for granted and not recognized as the profound practice that it can be.

Hearing the word “service” might at first bring up images of serving a teacher by bringing a glass of water or a cup of tea, before or during a talk. Or perhaps the image is of serving in a household set up when the Sakyong, or another visiting teacher comes to lead a program. Service, in that case, might involve running a vacuum cleaner, doing laundry, washing the dishes or cooking or serving a meal. Or the image might be of doing these activities at the Kalapa Court in Halifax, the home of the Sakyong and Sakyong Wangmo. In practical terms we only do this kind of service occasionally. Continue…

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Meeting Hurricane Bill
Meeting Hurricane Bill – HIGHLIGHT
no responses - Posted 09.02.09
By David Whitehorn On the evening of August 21st, four people sat around a computer in the Kasung Headquarters at Dorje Denma Ling (DDL) near Tatamagouche, Nova Scotia looking at the latest internet weather reports from Environment Canada and the Canadian Hurricane Centre. The reports predicted ...continue
Desung blog: Protecting Primordial Harmony..and more
no responses - Posted 07.21.09
Welcome to the Desung blog, developed by the Desung Command Group of the Dorje Kasung to help explore Desung practice. In the posts below you will find information and pictures from the annual Desung Command Group Conference held this year in May 2009 at Dorje Denma ...continue
Desung on-line panel: Q&A (1)
no responses - Posted 07.21.09
Q - There is a question from Chicago, which is, these teachings are very similar to Shambhala Training, how is Desung practice any different? DM – These are not different teachings. There’s not a different unconditional world that we are attracted to. There is not ...continue
Desung on-line panel: Action
no responses - Posted 07.21.09
Commander Debbie Coats Rupon - In terms of action, I want to start by saying again that the Desung are part of enlightened society. In the Sakyong’s treatise on Organization and Society, he describes an enlightened society as one in which all the societal institutions ...continue
Desung on-line panel: Practice
no responses - Posted 07.21.09
Dapon M, Dennis Southward - We know that we have basic goodness. We have developed an affinity for that by virtue of the teacher’s example and the lineage’s teachings. We know quite a bit but we are set back by our own fixations. So ...continue
Desung on-line panel: View
no responses - Posted 07.21.09
David Whitehorn Rupon - What we want to do is give you a quick overview of the Desung Arm and how it’s developing as a part of the Shambhala Society. We have divided the presentation into three sections representing the view, practice and action of ...continue
Protecting Primordial Harmony: Desung on-line panel
Protecting Primordial Harmony: Desung on-line panel
no responses - Posted 07.21.09
On May 16, 2009, the Desung Arm of the Dorje Kasung offered a 90 minute live Shambhala Online presentation originating from the shrine room of the Halifax Shambhala Centre where the senior officers of the Desung were participating in a weekend program entitled ‘Protecting Primordial Harmony: ...continue
Desung Command Conference pictures
Desung Command Conference pictures
no responses - Posted 07.13.09
[caption id="attachment_53" align="alignnone" width="288" >Desung Training continue
Desung Command Conference flag raising
Desung Command Conference flag raising
no responses - Posted 07.13.09
[caption id="attachment_48" align="aligncenter" width="288" >Desung Training continue
Growing Old in Shambhala
Growing Old in Shambhala – HIGHLIGHT
2 responses - Posted 05.24.09
By David Whitehorn and the Working Group on Aging In the Shambhala vision, every moment of our life, whatever age we may be, is an opportunity to wake up, to engage straightforwardly with the situation we are in, including our limitations and those of others, and to ...continue
Report from the Desung Command Group Conference at DDL
no responses - Posted 05.20.09
It is a pleasure to send this very brief report from the Desung Command Group conference that is taking place at DDL. The weather here in Tatamagouche, Nova Scotia has been delightfully sunny. Spring has come to the Maritimes and the dralas of DDL are cheerful ...continue
Welcome to the Desung Training blog
Welcome to the Desung Training blog
no responses - Posted 05.07.09
The Desung Arm of the Dorje Kasung is pleased to initiate this blog to provide information, descriptions and comments related to Desung practice. The blog will begin with reports from the annual Desung Command retreat that is being held, this year, at Dorje Denma Ling, in ...continue
Aging, Families and Shambhala
Aging, Families and Shambhala
no responses - Posted 03.15.09
When my mother died at age 86, her only grandchild–my daugher, then 14–asked if she could have my mother’s well-worn, simple gold wedding band. Since then, my daughter–now 21–has worn that ring nearly every day. With my mother’s death, my daughter no longer had living grandparents. ...continue


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