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Tibetan New Year in Orissa, India – HIGHLIGHT
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Sopa Choling Retreat Center at Gampo Abbey
Sopa Choling offers the Seventh Three-year Retreat Cycle in the Wisdom Tradition of the Karma Kagyu Lineage “…vajrayana practice is about recognizing, understanding, and having confidence in wisdom. We are cultivating confidence that wisdom already exists in our mind and body.” The Sakyong, Jamgon Mipham Rinpoche, “Adhishthana” [caption ... continuePosted March 5, 2009 by
FOX Breaking News Story On Meditation – HIGHLIGHT
On February 27th, the Shambhala Meditation Center of New York welcomed a crew from FOX News to film a short piece for FoxNewsHealth.com. They came to film Shambhalian Susan Piver giving meditation instruction and to interview students on the benefits of meditation in their daily lives. ... continuePosted March 4, 2009 by Katherine Lieberson
Journey to the Kagyu Monlam – HIGHLIGHT
By Corey Kohn Bodhgaya is a dusty little one-horse town, replete with limbless beggars and tattered-looking street children, just as we had been told. And in the middle of this unlikely place is the Mahabodhi temple, commemorating the site where the Buddha attained enlightenment 2,500 years ago. ... continuePosted March 3, 2009 by
Opening Communication with Other Authentic Spiritual Traditions – HIGHLIGHT
Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche with Chief Gerald Red Elk Image courtesy of theshamansdoor.com Spiritual traditions provide the ground that fosters genuine human community. They bond us deeply in a common view of the world and our relationship to it. As Buddhists, we have experienced this first-hand in the sangha, ... continuePosted March 2, 2009 by Bill_Sutton
Acharya Simon Luna and the Santiago Gong – HIGHLIGHT
This article was a collaborative effort of Magali Meneses, Clarke Warren, Veronica Guzman, Marvin Ross and Marc Matheson. The late Acharya Simon Luna, who passed away in 2007, had a connection to Naropa University and to the Shambhala community of Latin America. Clarke Warren, a Naropa ... continuePosted March 2, 2009 by
The Family of Good Heart
In 1968, when I was 17 years old and coming into adult consciousness about the world, waking up to the need for progress in human societies, I visited New York to see an exhibit of “Paris, May 1968” poster work. I spent my formative years – the ... continuePosted March 1, 2009 by Marc_Matheson
Exchanging the Fan: New Leadership in Boulder – HIGHLIGHT
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Staying in the Loop: the Story of Shambhala Journalism
“communication … n. 1a the act of imparting, esp. news. b an instance of this. c the information etc. communicated. 2 a means of connecting different places, such as a door, passage, road, or railway. 3 social intercourse (it was difficult to maintain communication in the ... continuePosted March 1, 2009 by