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M’Bongui
M’bongui , a dance performance with music composed by Herbert Elsky and choreography by Sophie Fougère-Darcy, took place on February 15th at the 300 seat Mégisserie theater in St Junien (Limousin, France). M’Bongui M’bongui is a traditional Congolese dance ceremony that was practiced before and after a hunt. ... continuePosted March 3, 2013 by luz_rodriguez
A Slightly Different 99 Percent – HIGHLIGHT
Commemorating Earth Day GreenFaith Fellowship: Chapter 2 Reports on an Environmental Justice Retreat click here to read the first story by Irene Woodard Newark International is the airport I generally leave from to go on Shambhala retreats and send my kids to Sun Camp. This past November, I went on ... continuePosted April 21, 2012 by Editor
Karme Choling’s Garden Gate – HIGHLIGHT
Slogan of the week: Stop, Drop and Touch the Speechless Sky by Jan Enthoven, Master Gardener at Karme Choling Meditation Retreat Center Many people ponder how humanity can continue its proliferation on planet earth with its limited material resources and a rapidly widening ecological footprint. I am just ... continuePosted November 20, 2011 by Editor
Answering a Call of Our Time – HIGHLIGHT
Irene Woodard, member of the Shambhala Meditation Center of New York City, has been named a GreenFaith Fellow and will join the class of 2012 in the GreenFaith Fellowship Program. The Fellowship Program is the only comprehensive education and training program in the United States to ... continuePosted October 28, 2011 by Editor
Earth Gathering at Windhorse Farm – HIGHLIGHT
By David Wimberly It is always Earth Day in Shambhala as surely as the Sun of Shambhala is always rising. The dharma regards the earth as sacred and values all living beings. This is remarkably enhanced in Shambhala with our vision to create enlightened society. Protecting the ... continuePosted April 22, 2011 by Editor
Earth Dharma Course Syllabus Available
Last spring Russell Rodgers, author of Essays on the Shambhala Buddhist Chants (PDF), taught a five-week Earth Dharma course at the Kootenay Shambhala Centre. He has revised the syllabus and is willing to share it with anyone interested. The course is outlined below. It is designed around ... continuePosted September 30, 2010 by James Northcote
Earth Dharma course starting May 20th
Enlarge image The Kootenay Shambhala Centre is pleased to present Earth Dharma, a five-class course with Russell Rodgers, on Thursday evenings, from May 20th to June 17th. We will explore our relationship with the earth, our present ecological predicament, and how meditation and other practices can help. Everyone is ... continuePosted April 23, 2010 by James Northcote
Practices for the Earth
The document linked here―Practices for the Earth (PDF)―contains an essay written by senior Kootenay Shambhala Centre teacher Russell Rodgers outlining the teachings he presented at last summer’s Kootenay Public Weekthun 2009: Touching the Earth meditation retreat, and describing the approach used to deliver the teachings. He submitted ... continuePosted December 27, 2009 by James Northcote
Sakyong Calls for Protecting the Earth – HIGHLIGHT
A Call to Contemplation and Action on Climate Change by Sakyong Mipham (republished from April 2009) On April 19, 2009, Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche offered the following teaching in support of Earth Day, and the work of the Touching the Earth working group of the ... continuePosted December 6, 2009 by Editor
Update from Shambhala’s Touching the Earth working group
The message below was posted on the worldwide Shambhala email announcement service earlier today. For information about the Kootenay Shambhala Centre’s environmental activity, click on any of the related subject tags in the sidebar―e.g., protecting the earth―or contact Russell Rodgers, our Touching the Earth liaison, at info@nelsonbuddha.com. Dear ... continuePosted July 21, 2009 by James Northcote
Buddhismus und Ökologie: Die Umwelt als Lehrerin
2009 ist ein Jahr des Schreckens für die Welt. Für sehr lange Zeit schien es, als ob finanzieller Wohlstand bis in das Unendliche wachsen könne. Wir nahmen an, dass Produktivitätssteigerung, Globalisation, ein börsenregulierten Markt, sowie freier Handel ausreiche um uns monetären Segen zu erteilen. Seit dem ... continuePosted June 29, 2009 by
Buddhism and Ecology: Environment as our Teacher – HIGHLIGHT
By Chris Tamdjidi In the year 2009, contemporary society finds itself in a state of shock. For many years it seemed that financial wealth could grow inexhaustibly – that it was just a matter of productivity, globalisation, open markets and free trade for the rain of monetary ... continuePosted June 29, 2009 by
AUDIO: Buddhism and Deep Ecology
[caption id="attachment_504" align="alignright" width="150" >Open House, senior teacher Russell Rodgers led participants in an exploration of the cultural and perceptual underpinnings of current ecological problems and described three Buddhist practices for addressing these problems at their root. Click on the icon below to listen to the ... continuePosted June 2, 2009 by James Northcote
A Buddhist Declaration on Climate Change – HIGHLIGHT
This declaration, composed as a pan-Buddhist statement by Zen teacher Dr David Tetsuun Loy and senior Theravadin teacher Ven. Bhikkhu Bodhi with scientific input from Dr John Stanley, will present to the world’s media a unique spiritual view of climate change and our urgent responsibility to ... continuePosted May 16, 2009 by James Northcote
Touching Sacredness at Senge Ling
This article was submitted by Russell Rodgers, director of this summer’s Kootenay Public Weekthün 2009: Touching the Earth program, in response to a request for more information about the program’s theme. Russell Rodgers writes: One of the key commitments in vajrayana Buddhism is to experience the world as ... continuePosted April 27, 2009 by James Northcote