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Three Kalapas: Kalapa Court, Kalapa Capital Centre, Kalapa Valley
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Excerpts from an “Interview with Eva Wong” by Gina Stick. Eva Wong is a tantric practitioner and translator. She is the eleventh-generation lineage carrier of the Sanyuan school of Feng Shui, a lineage carrier of the Xuankong school, and an advanced practitioner of the Sanhe school.

Gina Stick: Meeting with our international administration recently, you earmarked three projects as the highest priority for development. Each is associated with developing the capital: Kalapa Center, our future international seat in Halifax; Kalapa Court, the residence of the Sakyong; and Kalapa Valley, a parcel of raw land in northeastern Nova Scotia, the Druk Sakyong found integral to the future realization of Shambhala. Why are these projects important?

Eva Wong: Organizationally, Shambhala has the similarities to a multinational corporation, so we have to look at business and leadership dynamics: statecraft, diplomacy, strategy, and command structures. But at a higher level, Shambhala is a spiritual nation and must be looked at like running a country. You must have a capital, a king, ministers, a good cabinet. The capital must be oriented and placed in such a way that it has an outward-looking vision. It must also be strategically placed, supported, and protected by the other centers.

The land centers are the farming fields that supply the nourishment to the kingdom. The supply lines are critical; they must move between centers. You supply the teachers and they supply students.

What the capital does is both focus energy and radiate it out. It’s the pin the holds the mandala together. We have an ancient saying that says a country cannot live long without a capital. According to the military classics, when a kingdom loses it capital, the entire state goes into rebellion. There are three levels of holding together: outer, inner and secret.

The Kalapa Center is not only the place of administration, but also the outer zone where you have contact with the sangha and all future potential people interested in the teachings. It connects and unifies all of the parts of the community worldwide and prevents divisions among the centers. It protects against people running away and cutting themselves off. By training all of the teachers and sending them out, it protects against the teachings becoming diluted and distorted. These aspects are held together by the outer Kalapa embodied in the future Kalapa Center.

Halifax Shambhala Centre on Tower Road

Halifax Shambhala Centre on Tower Road

Gina Stick: So the health of the capital is essential for all of the centers because it provides leadership and a unified vision. What about the current Halifax Shambhala Center? Does this current building meet the needs of a Kalapa Center?

Eva Wong: A capital building needs to have tremendous vision because that leads the entire kingdom. The Tower Road location lacks the horizon and expansiveness. It severely limits the vision of the organization and its leadership. Further, the current building is not a “regulator.” It doesn’t have a Dzong (fortress) type structure that taps and radiates energy. Also, there’s no appropriate place within the current building for the seat of the ruler, the Sakyong, to fully manifest his power in order to draw everything together. These are the main disadvantages of trying to use the current building as the Kalapa Center.

Gina Stick: Will you please tell us more about the energy of the Kalapa Valley?

Eva Wong: The Kalapa Valley is the closest you will ever get to land that gives you a direct experience of the unmanifested. If you build too much there, you’ll cover up its essence. Therefore Kalapa Valley functions best as the source or generator of energy for everything else in the mandala. People can always go there for inspiration. It’s one of the few places in the world I have seen of this caliber.

The Sakyong and Sakyong Wangmo in Kalapa Valley

The Sakyong and Sakyong Wangmo in Kalapa Valley

Gina Stick: If we see Kalapa Valley as our link to the highest level of drala, it actually does fulfill the Druk Sakyong’s vision of being our capital or spiritual center; it is the gateway to Shambhala.

Eva Wong: The Valley is the furnace. The Court is the cauldron. The Kalapa Center will be the purified energy that radiates out from that cauldron. The realization of Kalapa is essential to bringing about the vision of Shambhala: working towards a society that embodies enlightened principles…. The most important project in terms of holding together the energetics of your mandala is developing the capital — in particular, building the Kalapa Center. This building is about realizing the first step of Shambhala kingdom, because it signifies the greater vision that is the heart of Shambhala. It will create the most benefit for the greatest number of people. Finding the appropriate land with the appropriate architecture and getting the capital established will provide a major stabilizing factor on the entire mandala. The other part of developing the capital is to develop Kalapa Valley as a sacred park with strategically placed shrines. This should be relatively easy, as the trick is not to do too much or build the wrong things.

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2 responses to “ Three Kalapas: Kalapa Court, Kalapa Capital Centre, Kalapa Valley ”
  1. Susan Jenkins
    Mar 24, 2011
    Reply

    Phyllis – link here:
    http://kalapavalley.shambhala.org/

  2. phyllis segura
    Mar 24, 2011
    Reply

    Sounds good. Could we have a map of how to get to Kalapa, the land? And perhaps a map of the land itself? If the map could show where it is in relation to everything surrounding it locally, that would be most helpful. If such a map and location finder exists already, please direct us to that. I have not found such information.
    Thank you.

    Phyllis Segura


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