Tuesday
Update from the Office of Care and Conduct
We continue to feel genuine concern for healing the harm that people have experienced in our community and are pleased to be able to share with you some updates on the various initiatives that have come to life over the last years. We also want to reiterate our commitment to culture change and increased awareness, caring, and action in Shambhala. Please send us your ideas and inspirations for this work as we truly welcome your participation and co-creation.
Training continues to be a major focus of Care and Conduct.
A Restorative Justice (RJ) training will be offered to over 30 individuals from the Code of Conduct Team and Process Team leaders in September, and an 8-week RJ/Active Peace Circle Facilitation Training is being offered on a donation basis, open to all beginning in October. Click here for more information and to register.
Gender Dynamics – Conversations on Gender and Sexuality in the Three Yanas of Buddhism opens September 25th with talks by Holly Gayley and guests, and conversations facilitated by Tara Templin. Click here for more information and to register. Live sessions are: October 22, October 29, and December 17.
Scholarships for Right Use of Power Teacher Training beginning in November are available. Click here for more information and email [email protected] if you would like to request financial support.
Sunday Gatherings talks: The Dharma of the Code of Conduct Part I and Part II, offered by Kristine McCutcheon, are now available.
A Right Use of Power 2 Day Retreat: Using Power Wisely with Heart: An embodiment workshop for Right Use of Power practitioners and students. Details coming soon.
Examining Whiteness with the Heart of Warriorship, a six week course facilitated by Sue Gilman, LaDawn Haglund and Tara Templin. Details coming soon.
The Code of Conduct continues to be implemented throughout the sangha, with local community presentations happening in North America and Europe (if you would like to request a local presentation, please contact Nina at [email protected]). In addition, a colour poster of the Code of Conduct is being mailed to all centres with physical locations. For a pdf of the printable poster, click here. Finally, if you are inviting someone to teach or facilitate, please review these draft Guest Presenter Guidelines.
Author Archive
5 responses - Posted 10.22.21
To the Shambhala Community, I am writing to share with you that I have retired as Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche’s acharya representative to the post of Rupa Acharya (Form Acharya). Having requested the Sakyong’s blessings, this is effective as of the recent Harvest of Peace. I feel the ...continue
2 responses - Posted 10.15.21
In September, the Shambhala Community Conversations team met in conversation toward an inclusive Shambhala. We first met within three groups—people studying with the Sakyong, not studying with the Sakyong, and unsure about our practice relationship with the Sakyong—and asked ourselves what our own needs and aspirations ...continue
1 response - Posted 10.12.21
The Office of Community Care and Conduct would like to share this upcoming training opportunity for the Shambhala community. Learn Conflict Resolution with Relationship and Community Repair An 8-week Active Peace Circle (APC) Facilitation Training is being offered to all Shambhala members on a donation basis, and starts ...continue
no responses - Posted 10.08.21
Each Sunday, Shambhala offers “Sunday Gatherings”, a series of free weekly online gatherings for the worldwide Shambhala community where we can come together to connect with our hearts and with each other. Weekly gatherings will feature a guest presenter and include a meditation or contemplation practice, as ...continue
no responses - Posted 10.05.21
October 2021 Newsletter What Do We Want to Say? by Irene Woodard What is it that distinguishes Shambhala Buddhists when we are participating in a march? What do we really want to say as we involve ourselves outside of Shambhala Centers? How do we show up on the streets, walking ...continue
1 response - Posted 09.24.21
By Resmaa Menakem Reviewed by Christine Heming . . . trauma and healing occur fundamentally in the body, not in the cognitive mind. My Grandmother’s Hands was first published in 2017 and again in 2021 in a UK Penguin Books edition. Its first publication escaped me and I cannot recall ...continue
1 response - Posted 09.21.21
Dear Shambhala Members and Friends, We hope you are all healthy, safe, and that you continue to be well supported during a time of ongoing challenge. We are pleased to share the 2020 Shambhala Annual Report with you, which outlines the activity of the Shambhala nonprofit organization ...continue
no responses - Posted 09.17.21
Dear Shambhala Friends, Warm greetings to all of you as we approach Harvest of Peace. This seasonal transition, the autumn equinox in the northern hemisphere and spring in the southern hemisphere, occurs officially on September 21st this year. Since the equinox falls on a Tuesday, many Centres ...continue
1 response - Posted 09.09.21
Shambhala Mountain Center Offering Lessons in Earth Protection By Mac McGoldrick In 2018 Shambhala Mountain Center established our Healthy Forest Initiative. In this work, we sought to consider our complete ecosystem to ensure that we’re providing an all-inclusive, science and ecology-based conservation plan. SMC is living into a plan that factors ...continue
no responses - Posted 09.03.21
By Francis Weller Reviewed by Sara Demetry The work of the mature person is to carry grief in one hand and gratitude in the other and to be stretched large by them. Francis Weller, www.thesunmagazine.org/issues/478/the-geography-of-sorrow Grief around the loss of my mother at age 28 is what turned my mind ...continue
no responses - Posted 08.31.21
Reposted from The Tribune India by Amitabha Bhattacharya Here is a book on a book — a biography of Edwin Arnold’s portrayal, in verse, of Siddhartha Gautama’s evolution as the enlightened Buddha — authored by one of India’s more sensible public figures. How ‘The Light of Asia’ ...continue
no responses - Posted 08.28.21
By Natalie Pascale Boisseau Note: This piece contains sensitive content about suicide. (French: [klafuti]; Occitan: clafotís [klafuˈtis] ) My love, when I look at the deep red cherries in the white bowl before me, the color of a sunburst heart, I become a citizen of the present moment. I forget ...continue
no responses - Posted 08.23.21
Heaven, Earth, and Man In Contemplative Landscape Photography John McQuade, 2021 “Heaven, earth and man can be seen literally as the sky above, the earth below, and human beings standing or sitting between the two…if we apply the perspective of heaven, earth and man to the situation in the ...continue
3 responses - Posted 08.11.21
From a Mountain in Tibet: A Monk’s Journey Written by Lama Yeshe Losal Rinpoche Reviewed by Kristine McCutcheon On a dateless day in the time of COVID, a dear monastic friend dropped this book off at my door. “You will like it!” she smiled. As a student of ...continue