Great Eastern Sun builds on the teachings of basic goodness, “cocoon”, fearlessness, inquisitiveness, and openness in the Heart of Warriorship series (Shambhala Training Levels I-V) and introduces how to see the primordial energy and brilliance that is a
Sunday Morning Sittings take place from 10:00am until 11:30am. Tea and conversation afterwards.
Tuesday Open House returned to sitting Live in the shrine room at the Shambhala Centre
The five wisdom energies of the Buddhist mandala are based on the natural elements of earth, water, fire, wind, and space, each of which has masculine/yang and feminine/yin aspects,
Sunday Morning Sittings take place from 10:00am until 11:30am. Tea and conversation afterwards.
Sunday Morning Sittings take place from 10:00am until 11:30am. Tea and conversation afterwards.
Post Meditation, join your fellow meditators for some social time in the Community Room.
Location:
St. Mary’s Metchosin (Church)
4125 Metchosin Road
(Next to Witty’s Lagoon trail)
(We’ll have mediation cushions there but please feel free to bring your own if you have some)
Coordinator: Lycia Rodrigues
Phone: 672-974-8514
Email: lycia
Sunday Morning Sittings take place from 10:00am until 11:30am. Tea and conversation afterwards.
Post Meditation, join your fellow meditators for some social time in the Community Room.
Having experienced a taste of basic goodness in Level I, we want to learn more. Meditation practice allows us to observe how we create a cocoon of habits to mask underlying fear. We begin to appreciate that there is no fundamental obstacle to experiencing basic goodness. This is the second online weekend retreat of the […]
Sunday Morning Sittings take place from 10:00am until 11:30am. Tea and conversation afterwards.
Post Meditation, join your fellow meditators for some social time in the Community Room.
The self-existing energy that comes from letting go is called Windhorse in the Shambhala teachings. Wind is the energy of basic goodness, strong, exuberant, and brilliant. At the same time, basic goodness can be ridden, or employed in your life, which i
We all have a wisdom within known as Buddha Nature. This nature can manifest as a fundamental healing force known as Medicine Buddha, that shines through any illness or problem we will ever face in life. This helps us clear the deep causes of illness an
Sunday Morning Sittings take place from 10:00am until 11:30am. Tea and conversation afterwards.
Post Meditation, join your fellow meditators for some social time in the Community Room.
Post Meditation, join your fellow meditators for some social time in the Community Room.
Staff tidy up the Ikebana in all areas of the building
Mindfulness and awareness alone are the iron hook that will lead you to liberation. --Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche This four-week intensive will take place Monday through Saturday from nine until five, lunch included. Anyone is welcome to join the sitting for a half-day from nine to twelve (lunch not included), for an entire day, or for one or more weeks. If you are on […]
Post Meditation, join your fellow meditators for some social time in the Community Room.
Staff tidy up the Ikebana in all areas of the building
Location:
St. Mary’s Metchosin (Church)
4125 Metchosin Road
(Next to Witty’s Lagoon trail)
(We’ll have mediation cushions there but please feel free to bring your own if you have some)
Coordinator: Lycia Rodrigues
Phone: 672-974-8514
Email: lycia
Post Meditation, join your fellow meditators for some social time in the Community Room.
Staff tidy up the Ikebana in all areas of the building
Post Meditation, join your fellow meditators for some social time in the Community Room.
Staff tidy up the Ikebana in all areas of the building
Planting such a seed as the bodhisattva vow undermines ego and leads to a tremendous expansion of perspective. Such heroism, or bigness of mind, fills all of space completely, utterly, absolutely. Within such a vast perspective, nothing is claustrophobic
Post Meditation, join your fellow meditators for some social time in the Community Room.
Examining our habitual tendencies, we begin to look at our willingness to experience our life without relying on the cocoon. We begin to engage the world directly and extend the attitude of fearlessness to our activities. This is the third weekend retreat of the Way of Shambhala path of training. Heart of Warriorship Through the practice of […]
Post Meditation, join your fellow meditators for some social time in the Community Room.
Location:
St. Mary’s Metchosin (Church)
4125 Metchosin Road
(Next to Witty’s Lagoon trail)
(We’ll have mediation cushions there but please feel free to bring your own if you have some)
Coordinator: Lycia Rodrigues
Phone: 672-974-8514
Email: lycia
Post Meditation, join your fellow meditators for some social time in the Community Room.
Location:
St. Mary’s Metchosin (Church)
4125 Metchosin Road
(Next to Witty’s Lagoon trail)
(We’ll have mediation cushions there but please feel free to bring your own if you have some)
Coordinator: Lycia Rodrigues
Phone: 672-974-8514
Email: lycia
