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Children’s Day Message from Sakyong Wangmo
Sakyong Wangmo, Jetsun Drukmo and Jetsun YudraThe Sakyong Wangmo, Jetsun Drukmo, and the Mukpo Family send warm wishes to the entire community from Nepal for Children’s Day, our Shambhala celebration...
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Voting for Enlightened Society
Your vote can help Shambhala San Francisco share Enlightened Society through Wisdom 2.0 By James Beange & Marty Behrens The San Francisco Shambhala community is aiming to share the message of...
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Time to Tiger in Vienna
Celebrating Children’s Day, families gather for a kid-friendly event in Austria by Hans Kaufmann We met at four o’clock in the afternoon, in order “to tiger.” One of the boys had suggested this term...
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The Pope, the Climate, and Enlightened Society
Followers of many traditions come together to contemplate climate change through study of Pope Francis’ encyclical Laudato Si by Russell Rogers Here in Nelson British Columbia, the Kootenay Shambhala...
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Appreciations and Farewells
An appreciative farewell gathering is held to honor the service of outgoing Shambhala leaders Carolyn Mandelker and Anna Weinstein by David Brown, with photos by Terry Rudderham On December 18th the...
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First Rays of Dawn
Lighting Our Way: The Celebration of Children’s Day in Boulder By Emily Takahashi Snow, glorious snow! Winter does not seem fully realized until we have been housebound by our first deep snow. Snow is...
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Brick by Brick
Reflections on meditation practice and living with mental illness by David Engelbrecht There is a mindfulness revolution happening in the world today. Nowadays, mindfulness is part of many therapies....
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Yoga to Help You Sit, Part 4
Opening the hips to help open the heart by Martha Whitney and Trina Magi Tightness in the hips can make sitting meditation uncomfortable. “For a long time, I experienced pain in my upper back when I...
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Educator Meditators
Shambhala meditators and educators come together in Columbus to nurture the “inner teacher” by Jean Pittman As an educator and a visual artist, I find that meditation and the Shambhala Path are...
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Accepting Small Improvements
A small gathering in good company leads to great insight, based on the Sakyong’s experience training falcons by John David Smith Last Tuesday night a small group of us gathered in the smaller shrine...
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Drowning in Potential
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...
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Opening the Treasury of Wisdom
Jetsun Drukmo begins her formal studies in the Tibetan language by Conner Loomis The Sakyong with Jetsun Drukmo On the auspicious third day of the eleventh month of the Year of the Wood Sheep, the...
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Shambhala Day Poetry Contest
The Kalapa Court and the Office of Culture and Decorum are pleased to announce this year’s Shambhala Day Poetry Contest. With the blessings of the Sakyong, in celebration of the approaching Year of...
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Wedding news: Root and Kluck Exchange Vows
Erin Padma Root and Christopher Eric Kluck married August 29, 2015 Erin Padma Root and Christpher Eric Kluck hosted a lovely weekend in Port Townsend, WA, to celebrate their wedding. Amid whale...
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Teaching and Learning at Surmang
News from the Education Project Just before Christmas, the Gesar Fund received a message from the Konchok Foundation, which is supported by the Gesar Fund with some 5000 euros per year. In the Gesar...
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The Path to Sobriety
A Buddhist alcoholic gets sober in AA: A spiritual journey by David Engelbrecht When I returned to Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) this year, I was a Buddhist. I took refuge in 2012 and my last AA meeting...
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The Nature of Community
An exploration of our deep connections to one another, and to our own compassionate hearts by Aaron de Long We might think of community as something external to our life, something extra. We have our...
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Blood Moon Doha
COLUMN: Poetry Space curated by the Shambhala Times Poetry Space Editorial Board led by Jeff Fink While we’re finishing up a forthcoming piece of reader submissions, here’s an unusual entry. Last...
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Finishing One Year, Starting Anew
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...
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A Campaign for Windhorse
Shambhala’s Midwest retreat center celebrates its 15th birthday with a major capital campaign by Susan Firer Windhorse Retreat Center started out as the Midwest Shambhala Retreat Center back in 2001....
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