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Entering the Wood Snake Year! – HIGHLIGHT
A February 2025 Newsletter Message from Shambhala Touching the Earth Collective Newsletter Sign Up This month we enter the Wood Snake Year. The tail end of the Wood Dragon whipped up massive fires in Los Angeles, California. The temperatures on Earth reached record levels. How do we proceed? Looking at ... continuePosted February 21, 2025 by Jillian_Johnson
Shambhala Day Live Broadcast – HIGHLIGHT
Entering Into the Year of the Wood Dragon Shambhala Day was on Feb 10 this year and hundreds of people from around the world joined together at Shambhala Centres, Groups, and the homes of family and friends to watch the Shambhala Day Live Broadcast and welcome in the Year of ... continuePosted February 22, 2024 by Jillian_Johnson
Nourishing our Winter Garden – HIGHLIGHT
A Message from the Director and the Team at Gampo Abbey Photo: More than meets the eye—gardens with cover crops, dusted with snow at Gampo Abbey The year 2023 was a period of retreat and renewal for our monastic community. We repaired buildings, fixed lots of plumbing problems, ... continuePosted January 26, 2024 by Jillian_Johnson
Shambhala Day 2023 – HIGHLIGHT
This year, Shambhala Day was on February 21. Centres, Groups, and Members joined from around the world to share in a moving and joyful live broadcast. The theme for the Shambhala Day 2023: Year of The Water Rabbit Live Broadcast was “Reflecting on the Practice of ... continuePosted February 27, 2023 by Jillian_Johnson
Revisiting “Understanding Dön Season” – HIGHLIGHT
The Times Editorial team has received requests for this excellent dharma teaching, written by the late Shastri Russell Rodgers in 2017. We’ve shared it here, in advance of the 2021 Dön season, which begins February 1st. If you would like more practice opportunities connected to Dön season ... continuePosted January 25, 2021 by archives-staff
Shambhala Day 2017 – HIGHLIGHT
Cheerful Shambhala Day from everyone at the Shambhala Times! continuePosted February 27, 2017 by CGH
Finishing One Year, Starting Anew – HIGHLIGHT
Practices for the two weeks leading up to Shambhala Day, reflecting on the passage of time and laying a good foundation for the coming year by Walker Blaine As we approach the coming New Year of the Fire Monkey on February 9th, it is important to acknowledge the ... continuePosted January 22, 2016 by CGH
Drowning in Potential – HIGHLIGHT
How mindfulness can save us from drowning in our expectations for ourselves by Georgia Pettit Mindfulness meditation suggests we start the new year not with criticism and condemnation, but with an appreciation for the mind, body, and heart we have today. One pop culture highlight from 2015 was the ... continuePosted January 10, 2016 by CGH
Global Connections on New Year – HIGHLIGHT
Shambhalians from around the world gathered for Shambhala Day yesterday to celebrate the new year according to the lunar calendar. The day is referred to as losar in Tibetan. Shambhala Online’s Heather Scott, who coordinated the online portion of the day, stated that 138 centres and ... continuePosted March 6, 2011 by
Ground for Fresh Starts in the Mandala – HIGHLIGHT
As 2010 comes to a close and the Shambhala Times reviews its biggest articles of the year, it is clear that the ground has been set for a year of fresh starts and new beginnings in 2011. With the Sakyong in retreat, it seems we all ... continuePosted December 28, 2010 by
Nowruz – the Persian New Year – Celebrated in Teheran – HIGHLIGHT
#gallery-1 { margin: auto; } #gallery-1 .gallery-item { float: left; margin-top: 10px; text-align: center; width: 33%; } #gallery-1 img { border: 2px solid #cfcfcf; } #gallery-1 .gallery-caption { margin-left: 0; } /* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes/media.php */ A haft-sin table in a local restaurant The haft-sin table at the shamatha group’s Nowruz party Eid-eh Shoma Mobarak! Happy New Year! The Teheran shamatha group celebrated Nowruz ... continuePosted March 25, 2009 by