Look inside the September 2011 Shambhala Sun magazine.
The path of life is love — from loving
ourselves, to intimate relationships, to love that embraces all beings.
Our annual all-teachings issue offers Buddhist wisdom on bringing more
love into your life.
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this issue's editorial:
Shambhala Sun deputy editor Andrea Miller on truly enjoying love and celebration, but without getting "too sugary sweet."
features
She’s
the Queen of Rock ’n’ Roll. An unwanted child. A believer in the power
of love. She's also a longtime Buddhist. Andrea Miller talks to Tina Turner.
John Tarrant on Falling in Love: It
was his first kiss, a moment when no one was running the show and no
calculations were being made. In so many ways, love is like
enlightenment.
After
the honeymoon, real life sets in—budgets to balance, toilet seats left
up, and in-laws coming for dinner—but if we practice the six paramitas,
or transcendent perfections, we discover how to always live in love. Susan Piver on Being in a Relationship.
Everything changes; nothing lasts. In matters of the heart this can
be an especially difficult truth to wake up to. What do we do when the
love story ends? Karen Maezen Miller on Breaking Up.
So much can happen if we have the courage to look at ourselves honestly. Carolyn Rose Gimian on Loving Ourselves.
PLUS: Norman Fischer on Practicing Together and Judy Lief on Loving Everyone.
You're jealous or angry or lonely. Don't run from the feeling, says Pema Chödrön. Stay present.
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When body and mind are synchronized, Sakyong Mipham says, we can live with grace and dignity, grounded and in harmony with the world around us.
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PLUS: "The Sleeping Bird" by Mark Krieger; "Beyond Fight or Flight," by Gabriel Cohen, and a Q&A with Lisa See.
barry boyce on "the mindful society"
As a teachers of architecture, Peter Schneider and Kat Vlahos seeks to
instill in their students an aesthetic of simplicity, quiet, and
harmony.
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