Seeking Shambhala
These meditators are practicing in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, led by Shastri Diana Evans. Museum Director Malcolm Rogers called it, “the first ever meditation session in the museum.” It not only...
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At a conference on the Strengths and Future of Nova Scotia, hosted by our Shambhala Community to mark the 25th anniversary of the parinirvana of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, the Reverend Russell Daye of...
View ArticleVision to Action
Please take a few minutes to look at this new report, Vision to Action, from our Denver Shambhala Community. It is the result of a Community Planning Process that took place over three months and aimed...
View ArticleThe Angel of the Gap
I was touched by this story that went around the world yesterday: For nearly five decades he gazed out of his Sydney home overlooking the Pacific Ocean, inspired by one of Australia’s most picturesque...
View ArticleThe Purkhang
Twenty five years ago, on this very weekend, the students of the Vidhardhara, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, gathered in the upper meadow of Karmê Chöling for his cremation. This is beautifully recalled...
View Article“Incredible space of vulnerability…”
The High Park Fire raging in the Colorado Rockies is about five miles from Shambhala Mountain Center. Two days ago four of us went to visit the small crew that has remained there to prepare the...
View Article“A living and disturbing manifestation …”
Remarks by the President addressed to the Sakyong, Jamgön Mipham Rinpoche, at the Scorpion Seal Assemblies, Dechen Chöling, 2 September 2012 Towards the conclusion of the Scorpion Seal Assemblies at...
View ArticleAdding my voice to the chorus of concern
The Canadian Government recently decided to deprive federal prisoners and correctional staff of their long-standing access to professional chaplains from minority religions. I wrote to the country’s...
View ArticleSlaughter of the innocents
There is a dreadful poignancy to the mass killing of school children and their teachers, two millennia after the slaughter of the innocents – the Biblical massacre that took place in Egypt following...
View Article“…the issue is the heart of our culture
A Christian minister who was in Colorado during the Columbine school massacre and is now pastor of the Connections Church in Newtown, Connecticut, has spoken about what he describes as “the heart of...
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