Dharma Teachings - 2018-12-13 - 7 comments
Seeing Depression
In this article, Acharya Michael Greenleaf dives fearlessly into the solidity of depression and offers insight into causes, describes what ... continue
Featured Stories - 2018-12-11 - 1 comment
“Fail Better!”
Ani Pema Chodron at the Naropa Graduation, of the Daily Camera
As the Boulder Daily Camera says, at Naropa University’s recent ... continue
Community Articles, Video, Audio, Photos - 2018-12-09 - 3 comments
Home Shrines Are Where We Gather
A photo gallery of home shrines, courtesy of Shambhalians around the world who shared the images below.
The ordinariness of our Shambhala ... continue
Arts and Poetry - 2018-12-06 - 3 comments
Father as Ancestor
In this reposted article from 2011, Bill Scheffel reflects on both the passing of his father and the Shambhala teachings of Chogyam ... continue
Community Articles - 2018-12-04 - comment
Setting up a Home Shrine
COLUMN: Good Practice
by Sumner Bradley, long time employee at Samadhi Cushions
To begin with, if you don’t have a shrine, that’s fine. ... continue
Community Articles - 2018-12-02 - 7 comments
Talking Trash
Commemorating Earth Day
by Anenome Fresh
resident gardener at Karme Choling
One afternoon in mid-January, I decided to start taking accountability for the trash ... continue
Community Articles - 2018-11-27 - 3 comments
The Fullness of Full-Catastrophe Living
Healthy Road. Photo courtesy of Jennifer Holder.
By Paulette Graf
In the 1970’s I lived with my husband at the Cambridge Zen Center ... continue
Dharma Teachings - 2018-11-25 - comment
Raising Our Children, Sharing Our World
Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche holding Gesar Mukpo. Photo by James Gritz.
By the Vidyadhara, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche
Exclusive to the Shambhala Times, courtesy of ... continue
Dharma Teachings
Yeshe Tsogyal: Woman and Feminine Principle
Yeshe Tsogyal banner, which now hangs in many of our shrinerooms. By Rita Gross and Acharya Judith Simmer Brown Yeshe Tsogyal has long been a key figure in the Nyingma lineage, important to the Vidyadhara and the Sakyong. In the “Supplication to the Shambhala Lineage,” she is paired with “Lotus-born Padmakara” as “Wisdom Yeshe Tsogyal.” Her name means literally “wisdom ocean queen,” and her blessing is associated with the development of genuine nondual wisdom in our practice. She is also supplicated in a chant composed by the Fifteenth Karmapa that is sometimes done just after the Seven-Line Supplication in Vajrayana practice. This Yeshe Tsogyal chants serves as a complement to the chant to Guru Rinpoche in seven lines, for it expresses the aspects of wisdom, protection, and ... continueMore:Dharma Teachings
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