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Mindful Parenting: How Parenting and Mindfulness Practice Can Support Each Other
By Sean McCann An Excerpt from the Shambhala Online Community Blog Mindful parenting is a rich and multifaceted topic. How can mindfulness inform our parenting? And how does parenting affect our...
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Gratitude for Human Resource
An Excerpt from the March 2024 Shambhala Touching the Earth Collective Newsletter by Irene Woodard There is a group of us in the Collective studying Joanna Macy’s Active Hope. And the start of her...
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Brilliant Emotions—Great Agony, Great Promise
True Stories from a Buddhist Psychotherapist By Paul Cashman A book review by Christine Heming There is room for messy emotions and feelings. . . We don’t need to fix ourselves or someone else. Our...
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Precious Silence – The Gift of Retreat
A Message from the Director and Team at Gampo Abbey and the April 2024 Gampo Abbey Newsletter As I write this we are in the final days of the Yarne retreat – a 45-day traditional monastic retreat that...
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Meeting Chenrezig in Sound: Understanding Chenrezig’s Name and the Meaning of...
by Frederick Meyer An excerpt from the Shambhala Online Blog posted April 12, 2024 In recent years, Chenrezig—the Tibetan name for the Buddhist deity Avalokiteshvara, the Bodhisattva of compassion—has...
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Making Friends with Death and Dying: A Spiritual Journey
By Alley Smith The genuine heart of sadness comes from feeling that your nonexistent heart is full. You would like to spill your heart’s blood, give your heart to others. For the warrior, this...
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DKD’s Next Chapter
The Directors Search Has Begun Dear friends of Dorje Khyung Dzong Shambhala Retreat Center, We are looking for the next directors to care for this unique solitary meditation retreat center. Unique...
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Meditation and the Amygdala: Mediating Emotions in the Brain
By John Light An Excerpt from the Shambhala Online Blog, posted April 29, 2024 How does meditation affect the amygdala? Much has been written about meditation and the amygdala, but almost all of it was...
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The Grieving Heart: Slow Down & Feel It
By Alley Smith We can deny its existence, but grief is patient and waits as long as we have the energy to ignore it. Timothy G. Serban Over the years I have heard it said that every person needs to...
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Eco-Dharma Talk Series: Exploring Where a Mindful Life and Ecology Meet
A Shambhala Online Interview with Touching the Earth Collective Shambhala Online spoke with Gregory Webster and Irene Woodard from Shambhala Touching the Earth Collective and asked them several...
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Tender Confidence
A Personal Account of My Weekthun Retreat at Drala Mountain Center by Eric Bergstrom Confess your hidden faults. Approach What you find repulsive. Help those you think you cannot help. Anything you are...
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Farewell to Jim Wagner
An Excerpt from the Shambhala Touching the Earth Collective July/August 2024 Newsletter So long, farewell… For the last two years, The Shambhala Touching the Earth Collective has had Jim Wagner...
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Compassion vs. Empathy: Understanding the Difference
By John Seex The terms “empathy” and “compassion” are often used interchangeably, but from a Buddhist perspective ultimately they are very different. In this article, we’ll explore compassion and...
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Meditation for Self-Love: Teachings, Videos, and Guided Meditation Script
By Frederick Meyer Shambhala Blog Article, August 9, 2024 Self-love—to feel, honor, and appreciate our own goodness—is among the most beautiful and powerful things there is. We are always worthy of...
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In Loving Memory of Alice Haspray
From the Chronicles of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche By The Chronicles – August 22, 2024 Alice Haspray, beloved wife of Richard, mother of Noah, grandmother of Oscar, and teacher of many of us, passed from...
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Shambhala Touching the Earth Collective: Book Recommendations
by Dickie Swaback An excerpt from the Shambhala Touching the Earth Collective September 2024 Newsletter I FIND IT VERY VALUABLE and stimulating to read various authors on the same or somewhat related...
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Non-Attachement in Buddhism: Exploring the Buddhist Teachings on Attachment
By Carrie Ingoglia An Excerpt from the Shambhala Community Blog When I started learning about the Buddha’s teachings, I got stuck on the idea of non-attachment in Buddhism. I was especially struck by...
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Gampo Abbey Newsletter
October 2024 A Message from the Director and the Team at Gampo Abbey Just a few weeks ago, we celebrated the gate-closing ceremony for the three-year retreat. Eleven people have journeyed along a path...
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Poetry by Mark Frutkin
A Word from Mark These poems have not been published previously. They have a particular influence from my experience with meditation and the Shambhala path. I studied poetry with Allen Ginsberg when I...
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Fall Gracefully 優雅に落ちる
By David Takahashi Is there Gravity, or Does the Earth Suck? The phrase “yuuga ni ochiru” (優雅に落ちる) in Japanese translates to “gracefully falling” or “elegantly descending” in English. It combines the...
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