September 7, 2010 – 1:47 am
Not “friends” with the Shambhala Sun on Facebook? Then you might have missed this news:
Pema Chödrön’s upcoming three-day “Smile at Fear” retreat with Carolyn Gimian in Richmond, California — while long sold out — will be available online. And if you sign up for this “virtual” retreat (though SunSpace blogger/vlogger Jundo Cohen maintains there’s [...]
August 30, 2010 – 8:32 am
Our special How to Meditate issue is on newsstands, featuring guidance from Matthieu Ricard, Noah Levine, Pema Chödrön, James Baraz, Cyndi Lee, Sakyong Mipham, Mingyur Rinpoche, and more.
Well, there’s lots more where that all came from. So come visit our special online How to Meditate Spotlight page. There you’ll find links to articles from the [...]
In memory of the late and much-beloved Zen teacher, Robert Aitken — click here for a brief obituary — we present two of his teachings from the pages of Buddhadharma. (Links open in new windows.)
”What’s the Meaning of This?“ — Robert Aitken Roshi on Blue Cliff Record Case 20: Lung-ya’s “The Meaning of the Ancestor’s [...]
Tynette Deveaux, editor of Buddhadharma (also published by the Shambhala Sun Foundation) files a report from our weekend program at Omega Institute.
This past weekend 65 people came together near Rhinebeck, NY — not for Chelsea Clinton’s wedding but rather to attend a workshop called The Wisdom of Anger: What the Buddhists Teach, held at Omega [...]
That’s right: Tenzin Gyatso, His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama was born on this date in 1935. All over the world, Buddhists, Tibetans, and lovers of peace are celebrating (though the day is marked by bittersweetness, too). Artist Shepard Fairey even prepared a beautiful new portrait for the occasion (left; click here for details). Why [...]
In this second clip culled from our July 2010 feature interview with Thich Nhat Hanh, the Zen master and mindfulness proponent explains, simply, how to make sense of the various Buddhist traditions and practices available to us today.
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You can hear our previously posted installment of [...]
Last month we told you that Instructions to the Cook: A Zen Master’s Recipe for Living a Life That Matters had been selected among the top ten films for Culture Unplugged’s “Humanity Explored” Film-Maker’s Choice Award. Well, now another film from Glassman’s Zen Peacemakers group has been singled out for kudos. Titled In Spite of [...]
You don’t have to believe your thoughts.
We sometimes find ourselves in pretty dark corners, with lots of thoughts whirling around: sad thoughts, depressed thoughts, dark fictions. We may play these homemade movies or choose not to pick them up, leaving them on the mental shelf. In fact, we have a lot of sweeping to do [...]
“According to the Buddhist tradition, karma evolves right at the beginning of ego, when basic bewilderment develops. The basic bewilderment is the development of a sense of separateness, a sense of me and other. At that very moment, when that occurs, the volitional action of karma is created. The analogy for the creation of karma [...]
I once bought a shirt at the airport because I had been traveling a long time and was in need of a change. I found one in a nice deep blue color and put it on without looking closely at it. Then, when I was sitting on the airplane, I saw it had a fish [...]
“Fearful mind is the mentality of those who are still taking pleasure in hibernating in the cocoon of comfort. People come up with long lists of reasons they would like to hibernate. They complain that the world has not provided enough hospitality, so therefore they have to stay in their cocoons. Philosophers, psychologists, musicians, mathematicians, [...]
Today the website Living the Dharma: Teachings from His Holiness the 17th Gyalwang Karmapa will broadcast a special teaching by the Karmapa (pictured here on the cover of our January 2010 issue), live from Gyuto Monastery in Dharmasala, India.
His Holiness will be teaching in Tibetan and live English translation will be provided by Ringu Tulku [...]
“Through the practice of meditation, we gradually begin to relate with our world, our friends, and other situations. And slowly we begin to trust the world as well. We begin to feel that the world is not as bad as we thought — there might be something worth learning. However, we cannot just go out [...]
“Meditation is a way of permitting hang-ups of mind to churn themselves up. If we try to focus on our neurosis as a practice, that is an escape; and if we try to suppress it, that is also an escape. So the process is to relate with the neurosis as it is, in its true [...]
There is a story about a farmer who owns a buffalo. Not knowing that the buffalo is in its stable, the farmer goes off to search for it, thinking it has strayed from home. Starting off on his search, he sees many different buffalo footprints outside his yard. The footprints of [...]
