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To experience fearlessness, it is necessary to experience fear
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!
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 »
Voting With Our Hearts
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
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 »
Fixing the Time Problem, Atlantis Rising, #37
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 »
Chogyam Trungpa - Conflicting Emotions
[ image source ] The Ocean of Dharma quote for this week -- Rinpoche makes a very useful distinction between the energy of an emotion and when that emotion becomes conflicted through attachment to ego.... More »
Enlightened Integral Society
I've been thinking a lot lately about Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche's vision of an Enlightened Society and what that might actually look like. The core notion, as I understand it, is a society based on gentleness... More »
Five ... Well, Seven Favorite Dharma Books
I've been tagged by Hokai to list five of my favorite dharma books. I couldn't limit my list to just five, though, and really could add many more ... Wonders of the Natural Mind ,... More »
Five Favorite Dharma Books
I've been tagged by TMcG to present my five favorite dharma books. Seems we have a bit of overlapping taste in good Buddhist reading. In no particular order: Shambhala: The Sacred Path of the Warrior... More »
Gratitude 10/2/07 - Choosing Peace
Today I am grateful for this teaching from Pema Chodron in the current Shambhala Sun : Choosing Peace If we want to make peace, with ourselves and with the world at large, we have to... More »
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.
"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
"In the garden of gentle sanity
May you be bombarded by coconuts of
wakefulness."
we must continue to be open in the face of great opposition. No one is encouraging us to be open and still we must peel away the layers of the heart.
If you look into the mirror, you see that [every part of you] belongs there and you belong there, as you are. You begin to realize that you have a perfect right to be in this universe, to be this way, and you see that there is a basic hospitality that this world provides to you. You have looked and you have seen, and you don't have to apologize for being born on this earth.
"Coming home to our True Nature" Pt. 3
Spirituality is completely ordinary. Though we may speak of it as extraordinary, it is the most ordinary thing of all. Spirituality is simply a means of arousing one's spirit, of developing a kind of spiritedness. Through that we begin to have greater contact with reality. If we open our eyes, if we open our minds, if we open our hearts, we will find that this world is a magical place. It is magical not because it tricks us or changes unexpectedly into something else, but because it can BE so vividly and brilliantly.
by Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche
“Walking the spiritual path properly is a very subtle process; it is not something to jump into naively. There are numerous sidetracks which leades to a distorted, ego-centered version of spirituality; we can deceive ourselves into thinking we are developing spiritually when instead we are strengthening our egocentricity through spiritual techniques. This fundamental distortion may be referred to as spiritual materialism"
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 »










