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Serenity Lane: Welcome to New Brunswick
We’ve all heard about the Shambhala centers in Nova Scotia. But who ever heard of New Brunswick? On an epic bicycle adventure last summer, Shambhala Times Editor Sarah Lipton discovered the gem that is the New Brunswick sangha. Teaming up with Shambhala Times volunteer editor and regional correspondent Travis May, we are pleased to offer this small window into the rich tapestry of Shambhala in a little-known but much-celebrated province of Canada. Thanks to all the New Brunswick folks who helped us gather this information!
The iron tines of truth dig deep into the rich, red soil of New Brunswick, strengthened by the autumnal overtones of red and orange that dot the otherwise pine-laden forests. The undertones of the season’s tidal change grip at us with a familiar tang: tomatoes ripen beyond their leaves’ capacity to continue greening, apples burgeon redly upon burdened branches and fruit tumbles from the trees, tides rise higher than anywhere else on earth, pumpkins smile up from dying vines, and summer’s decay sweetens the air. We begin to thirst for hot apple cider with mulling spices.
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“An Uncommon King” shown at Fredericton film festival
“There are two kinds of leaders in this world: those who exert their power over others to control them and those who teach others to be leaders of their own lives.” An Uncommon King, the new feature documentary on Shambhala’s leader, Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche, is appearing at the Charlotte ... continuePosted February 19, 2013 by frances_giberson
Work, Sex and Money – in Moscow!
Moscow Shambhala Sangha members New Brunswick and PEI Shastri Veit Weber doesn’t confine his teaching activities to Atlantic Canada. In fact, he spent several days earlier this month teaching in Moscow! On February 1st to 3rd he taught the Contentment in Everyday Life course to seven participants ... continuePosted February 19, 2013 by frances_giberson
Shambhala Day 2013
Water Snake from Naropa University February 11, 2013 was Shambhala Day, and Losar (Tibetan New Year’s Day) and Sangha members around the world gathered to celebrate the beginning of the Year of the Female Water Snake. In Fredericton, group practice was followed by the Sakyong’s online talk and ... continuePosted February 19, 2013 by frances_giberson
Funding Cut to Canada’s Prison Chaplains
New Brunswick Shastri Veit Weber, a Shambhala Buddhist representative in the non-Christian prison chaplaincy in Canada, was recently affected by a sweeping government budget cut. Dorchester Penitentiary In an article on Touch Base, a magazine for Canadians, he says, “I am not a lawyer, but it looks to me ... continuePosted November 27, 2012 by frances_giberson
Walking, a Poem by Dan Keating
Walking Walking…and there I am, In the form of someone else walking toward me. Each of us carrying a lifetime Made more of questions than of answers. Full of how come, and what=s going on? Hollow and full. Filling the space between here and there. You are closer and there I am. I feel myself ... continuePosted November 14, 2012 by frances_giberson
Basic Goodness: We are at a crossroads for humanity
This video is a three-minute clip of Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche teaching at the Being Brave: Transforming Our World retreat in Halifax in August 2011. That five-day retreat, attended by over eight hundred people in person and hundreds more online, aimed at awakening kindness and courage in order to ... continuePosted November 14, 2012 by frances_giberson
Treatise on Enlightened Society Introduced
From the Shambhala News Service on September 24, 2012 During his Harvest of Peace address, the Sakyong, Jamgon Mipham Rinpoche, publicly introduced his Treatise on Enlightened Society and launched what he called a “cascading lung” (oral reading transmission of this text) that enables the treatise to be ... continuePosted September 26, 2012 by frances_giberson
Falling, a poem by Dan Keating
Falling On a day bright with sun and no breeze A small oak tree gives up. Its leaves gently falling through the stillness come to rest upon the ground. There is no effort here, no hanging on to that which has served its purpose, yet no pushing away. That which falls away simply, and ... continuePosted September 25, 2012 by frances_giberson
Tenth Anniversary Message from President Reoch
“We are the Warriors”The Fredericton Shambhala Centre celebrated its tenth anniversary on June 17, 2012. It was a magnificently warm and sunny day, and community members, friends, and family were treated to a full afternoon of outdoor activities in the Centre’s beautiful garden. These included an ... continuePosted June 25, 2012 by frances_giberson
A Song for Acharya Moh Hardin
The annual spring visit of Acharya Moh Hardin and Sangyum Cynde Grieve to our centre began on Friday evening May 11th with a public talk and signing of Acharya Hardin’s A Little Book of Love. Over thirty people attended and the books, which had been kindly ... continuePosted May 16, 2012 by frances_giberson
Song for Shambhala Level Three
The weekend of January 13 to 15 was the occasion of a delightful Shambhala Training Level Three in Fredericton. Twelve participants were guided and inspired by Director Craig Schneider and Assistant Director David Seabrook, supported by a seasoned staff ably coordinated by first-time coordinator Steve Godkin. ... continuePosted January 17, 2012 by frances_giberson
Song for Shambhala Level Three
The weekend of January 13 to 15 was the occasion of a delightful Shambhala Training Level Three in Fredericton. The twelve participants were taught and inspired by Director Craig Schneider and Assistant Director David Seabrook – in his first Level as an AD – while ... continuePosted January 17, 2012 by frances_giberson
Doha from Contentment in Everyday Life
The participants in the Contentment in Everyday Life course composed this spontaneous group poem, or Doha, at the celebration following the final class in December 2011. Friendliness allows the space of Nowness Being amongst others has taught me of Nowness Contentment comes from gentleness Riding the energy with spaciousness Now seems ... continuePosted January 17, 2012 by frances_giberson
Meet the Education Committee
The Fredericton Shambhala Centre hosts a full schedule of programs every year, including Shambhala Training Weekends, Way of Shambhala Courses, and other programs including Acharya Moh Hardin’s annual teaching visit. For all these programs, dedicated sangha members volunteer to coordinate and staff the weekends, clean the ... continuePosted October 19, 2011 by frances_giberson
Heartless, a poem by Lorna Drew
Lorna Drew wrote this poem at the Sangha Retreat in Halifax in August. Heartless Today I gave away my heart. It is an old heart But it worked just fine And I was fond of it. I gave it to the Sakyong, And to Adam, And to Pema. At the start I didn’t even ... continuePosted September 30, 2011 by frances_giberson
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