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confidence and joy
Laura
You should begin to build up confidence and joy in your own richness. That richness is the essence of generosity. It is the sense of resourcefulness, that you can deal with whatever is available around... More »
To experience fearlessness, it is necessary to experience fear
Phil
A few years ago I began going to the Shambhala Medtiation Center of San Antonio . Studying Shambhala Buddhism and living Shambhala Warriorship has had a tremendously positive effect on my life. So much so... More »
PHOTO HOAX UPDATE: My Findings Reported & Supported in LA TIMES!
thinkpossible
Shortly after I had posted my findings about the article and photo supposedly showing Chinese soldiers dressing as Tibetan monks during the recent unrest in Tibet, I was contacted by Mark Magnier, the Beijing Bureau... More »
Living Deliberately
jonny bardo
After what seems like ages my friend Anand, aka AVG , finally decided to join Gaia, replying to my post What is Spirituality? Here is a response to his comments. ME: in my mind, spirituality–as... More »
WILBER AND THE SHAMBHALA WARRIOR
Michaelman
A bit dated, but a personal account of my earliest formal foray into Shambhala Buddhism. The Developmental Model of Ken Wilber and the Shambhala Path of the Warrior Michael Mallett Naropa University Transpersonal Psychology II:... More »
Voting With Our Hearts
Bruce
In his brief talk on "Nowness" prefacing the final edition of Zeitgeist, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche says that perhaps our inability to face the power of the present moment is what accounts for our needs not... More »
The Path Home in Shambhala Sun 03/08
Bird
It's one of the paradoxes of spiritual practice: we need a path to travel where we already are. SAKYONG MIPHAM RINPOCHE explains how to create the causes and conditions for realizing the enlightened nature we... More »
Krishnamurti in Dialogue with Chogyam Trungpa
Balder
Part 1. What is Meditation? Part 2. What is Meditation? Order and disorder. Part 3. What is Meditation? Observing disorder without the "me." Continue here with Part 4 and Part 5 .
Fixing the Time Problem, Atlantis Rising, #37
Orion
excerpt from: Fixing the Time Problem ATLANTIS RISING • Number 37 BY CYNTHIA LOGAN~~~~~ For cultures around the world, time is measured not by the ticking seconds of a clock or watch, but by seasons,... More »
Buddhism is Not All That!
~C4Chaos
(Crossposted from www.c4chaos.com ) (Image borrowed from the American Buddhist Center Web Log ) I was surfing the web this afternoon when I serendipitously found this old article by John Horgan , Why I Ditched... More »
You are sitting on the earth and you realize that this earth deserves you and you deserve this earth. You are there - fully, personally, genuinely.
Look. This is your world! You can't not look. There is no other world. This is your world; it is your feast. You inherited this; you inherited these eyeballs; you inherited this world of color. Look at the greatness of the whole thing. Look! Don't hesitate - look! Open your eyes. Don't blink, and look, look - look further.
When I was going into one of my first meditation retreats, I asked my father, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, for some advice. He said, "How you act when you're alone affects the rest of your life." Even in solitude, the ruler engages in virtue.
The essence of warriorship, or the essence of human bravery, is refusing to give up on anyone or anything. We can never say that we are simply falling to pieces or that anyone else is, and we can never say that about the world either. Within our lifetime there will be great problems in the world, but let us make sure than within our lifetime do disasters happen. We can prevent them. It is up to us.
Idiot compassion is the highly conceptualized idea that
you want to do good....Of course, [according to the mahayana teachings of
Buddhism] you should do everything for everybody; there is no selection
involved at all. But that doesn't mean to say that you have to be gentle
all the time. Your gentleness should have heart, strength. In order that
your compassion doesn't become idiot compassion, you have to use your
intelligence. Otherwise, there could be self-indulgence of thinking that
you are creating a compassionate situation when in fact you are feeding the
other person's aggression. If you go to a shop and the shopkeeper cheats
you and you go back and let him cheat you again, that doesn't seem to be a
very healthy thing to do for others.
"The basic wisdom of Shambhala is that in this world, as it is, we can find a good and meaningful human life that will also serve others. That is our true richness."
The principle of nowness is very important to any effort to establish an
enlightened society. You may wonder what the best approach is to helping
society and how you can know that what you are doing is authentic and good.
The only answer is nowness. The way to relax, or rest the mind in nowness,
is through the practice of meditation. In meditation you take an unbiased
approach. You let things be as they are, without judgment, and in that way
you yourself learn to be.
"There is some principle of magic in everything, some living quality. Something living, something real, is taking place in everything."
--Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche
"There is some principle of magic in everything, some living quality. Something living, something real, is taking place in everything."
--Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche
"There is some principle of magic in everything, some living quality. Something living, something real, is taking place in everything." --Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche
2012
This pod is designed to create and stimulate awareness and discussion regarding "2012". 2012 is a reference point used by many sources (Terrence Mckenna and the Mayan Calender as example) to signify a massive transformation... More »
Shambhala Path of Social Engagement
This zaadz pod has been launched to build community and facilitate discussion and resource sharing among all of us interested or active in the Shambhala Path of Social Engagement, a spiritually and contemplative based approach... More »
The Austin "True"/Non-Dual Spirituality Meetup Group Pod
Hi all, I'm starting this Zaadz pod to help promote my Austin "True"/Non-Dual Spirituality Meetup. The info is below, and here's the link to join: http://spirituality.meetup.com/67 Cheers! David H. This is a meetup for people... More »
