Sacred Path: Great Eastern Sun
Shambhala Online PO Box 440067 Aurora CO , UNITED STATESDeepen your meditation practice, and continue along the path of the Shambhala teachings on warriorship, in this weekend retreat.
Deepen your meditation practice, and continue along the path of the Shambhala teachings on warriorship, in this weekend retreat.
Mahamudra is a journey of glimpses. Meditation practice is the first step and ground for tuning into the nature of our mind, but the leap comes when we open our heart to ourselves and our world in everyday life.
Please join STEC, co-hosting with the Griffin Carney musical family, in celebration of Harvest of Peace - a harvest of food, friends, and family. This year we are honoring dear friends, by especially inviting all those who attended the Family Camps at our
We live in an increasingly polarized world—in our communities and inter/national politics. How can courage and compassion help us work with the intensity of our times?
Learn to Meditate! This is a space where beginners or people newer to meditation can receive meditation instruction, learn how a meditation practice can inform their daily lives, and connect to other meditators in a warm, inclusive environment.
The three kayas, the three bodies of Buddha, are further expressions of our own Buddha Nature, our own Basic Goodness. We will begin by introducing all three kayas, then we will focus our contemplation on the Sambhogakaya, the Body of Joy.
Support group sessions will include a short talk, meditation practice, and an open forum to discuss personal experiences with old age, sickness, death, grief and bereavement. All are welcome. We respect your privacy. These sessions will not be recorded.
"“Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement...To be spiritual is to be amazed.” –Rabbi Abraham Heschel. Discovering the Inconceivable is receiving reality as it is revealed to us rather than us imposing our version on it. It is before thought.
Deepen your meditation practice, and continue along the path of the Shambhala teachings on warriorship, in this weekend retreat.
This is a deep study haiku course including a basic introduction to “the way of Haiku," as well as Daoism, Chinese Contemplative Poetry and the Deep Ecology teachings while guiding participants through how to create Classic Contemplative Haiku.
Register here for Writing Deep Haiku Through the Lens of Deep Ecology - Cohort I
Register here for Writing Deep Haiku Through the Lens of Deep Ecology - Cohort II
Explore the remarkable life story of Yeshe Tsogyal and how it can inspire our own path in this four session course. Through talks, dialogue, and practice, we will reflect on how to work with challenges along the path and invoke the dakini within.
During this mini-retreat, we will study and contemplate the Buddha’s Sutra on The Dharma Seal and The Three Doors to Liberation. According to the Buddha, these three doors are passageways that lead to freedom from suffering.
This three-session course explores the moment of making a profound commitment to put others before yourself. It is open to all who are interested in the vow, or those looking to reconnect with the vow.
Deepen your meditation practice, and continue along the path of the Shambhala teachings on warriorship, in this weekend retreat.
We live in difficult times. Many of us long to be present, caring, and feel more alive in a world that can be overwhelming and full of disruption. Creating a mindful awareness practice can help.
About the Course This course is part of a five-course-series that provides a thorough exploration of the Hinayana path drawing on teachings from prominent teachers and classic sources. The emphasis is on cultivating maitri or friendliness to oneself, and on the Shambhala teachings of basic goodness, gentleness and bravery - allowing us to meet the modern […]
Having recognized the truth of suffering and the confusion that is pervasive in our life, we naturally have questions. In this in-depth exploration of the Five Skandhas, we will touch these layers or constellations of experience one by one.
A Year of Deepening in Compassion: Part one of a four-part series exploring the Shambhala Mahayana teachings.
A Year of Deepening in Compassion: Part two of a four-part series exploring the Shambhala Mahayana teachings.
A Year of Deepening in Compassion: Part three of a four-part series exploring the Shambhala Mahayana teachings.
A Year of Deepening in Compassion: Part four of a four-part series exploring the Shambhala Mahayana teachings.
This course is comprised of asynchronous, recorded talks you may view at your convenience. It also includes the lung for the practice and an online discussion forum. The text can be ordered once you have received the lung.
Profound, potent, and intimate, this course includes videos of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche teaching that provide a rare glimpse of the early days of Buddhism in the West. The Tibetan Buddhist Path was the first seminar given by Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche.
In this course we will explore how the Buddhist teachings on the bardo can be a guide to keeping our hearts open when life seems to fall apart.
Learning to work with our anxiety, we are not blocked by fear. Through an exploration of the Buddhist teachings of mind and the nature of reality, we learn to see clearly.
Meditation sharpens our intelligence and uncovers our wisdom. When we touch the world directly, we discover ordinary magic.
This course provides introductory tools and teachings for working with meditation in everyday life.
As meditation practice expands and we develop trust in basic goodness, we can begin to discover the confidence and personal energy to go forward on the journey, which leads to a sense of joy.
This recorded course provides instructions and practices to work with death and dying as they manifest throughout our lives.
Discover or rediscover your connection to meditation—and to yourself. This course is a powerful way to reconnect with our minds and hearts, and to open up to ourselves and our experience in a way that is more connected, caring, and kind.
Emphasizing core Buddhist teachings and the natural world, this course helps reveal the magic and wonder of the world.
A journey of contemplative inquiry focused on the timeless question, "Who am I?"
This six-session recorded course explores our relationships with others, an aspiration to help our world, and specific aspects of social transformation.
In this session of reading and sharing, two experts in Trungpa’s poetry will provide context and commentary to illuminate his unique creative process and unlock some of the hidden meanings of this rare treasury.
At the end of the year and in times of difficulty, Vajrakilaya practice connects us with wrathful compassion in order to overcome obstacles and döns. Join us for recorded talks by Eve Rosenthal and guided Vajrakilaya practice.
This course features nearly 5 hours of video footage of Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche's teachings in Halifax, Nova Scotia in 1987.
This pre-recorded course explores the Sadhana of Mahamudra "as if for the first time."
Contentment can be hard to find. With meditation and contemplation practice, we can relax with ourselves as we are and appreciate simple human experience.
In 1992 and 1999, Dr. Robin Kornman held intensive retreats at Karmê Chöling which explored the Shambhala practices and teachings related to the Epic of Gesar. This course is drawn from six of the talks in those retreats.
Learn or refresh your connection to the practice of meditation as taught by Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, based on archival talks in the summer of 1974 to an audience of new students.
Five recorded sessions based on this text, which provides clear insight and points to the skillful means to work with difficult circumstances while being of benefit to others.
Over the course of five recorded classes of study and practice, Suzann Duquette leads a deep exploration of the Sadhana of Mahamudra.
This Course Introduces the Buddha's core teaching of The Four Noble Truths.
If you think of mindful eating as chewing on a single raisin for hours on end, think again. Food can be an expression of human dignity and enlightened society.
Cycle of the Black Ashe is a series of talks by Robin Kornman on the Terma cycle by the Vidyadhara, Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche. This course is built around seven talks that are open to Warrior Assembly grads. One talk is restricted to SS practitioners.
We can both learn from Buddhist teachings and recognize certain limitations with respect to gender configurations in sanghas, past and present.
In this course, we will explore strategies for increasing our reservoirs of resilience.
This program is based on the book, Right Use of Power: The Heart of Ethics—A Guide and Resource for Professional Relationships, and training program in engaged ethics that teaches four aspects of the ethical use of power.
The foundational teachings of the Buddha indicate that the suffering we experience in our lives can come to cessation if we recognize, deeply and profoundly, how that suffering has arisen. This requires gentle bravery and deep contemplation.
Contemplating the cessation of suffering, we first see the accessibility of the third noble truth as the gap. We are basically good. Realizing this to be true is that simple, and we are glimpsing this all the time.
About the Course This course is part of a five-course-series that provides a thorough exploration of the Hinayana path drawing on teachings from prominent teachers and classic sources. The emphasis is on cultivating maitri or friendliness to oneself, and on the Shambhala teachings of basic goodness, gentleness and bravery - allowing us to meet the modern […]
This five-week course introduces the short daily practice of White Tara, one of the most famous bodhisattvas of compassion in Tibetan Buddhism. The reading transmission (lung) is included in the course
Profound, potent, and intimate, this course includes videos of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche teaching that provide a rare glimpse of the early days of Buddhism in the West. The Tibetan Buddhist Path was the first seminar given by Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche.
A self-study course based on a weekend retreat with John Rockwell. The view of this course is to understand how all three yanas of the Buddhist journey can join together.
This course explores Yeshe Tsogyal as a female exemplar, enlightened teacher, and fierce protector for all dharma practitioners.
This course considers how, if at all, psychedelics are compatible with Buddhist practice.
Join Dr. Julia Sagebien exploring Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche’s teachings on Vajra Politics.
This five-day, Eco-Dharma Talks series includes topics such as: circular economies, the importance of local food, finding our way in climate and other crises, ”inner dimensions of sustainability," and our connection to the sacred earth.
A course on embodied and trauma informed meditation instruction, belonging, and related topics. For Shambhala Guides and Meditation Instructors for both initial training and continuing education.
Full series exploring the Shambhala Mahayana teachings.
This is a five-course-series that provides a thorough exploration of the Hinayana path drawing on teachings from prominent teachers and classic sources.
A Year of Deepening in Compassion is a four-part series exploring the Shambhala Mahayana teachings.
This series of three weekends is for meditation practitioners who are interested in developing as Meditation Instructors (MIs). The instructions and practices support MIs in cultivating skills to assist others.
This series of three weekends is designed to help meditation practitioners who are interested in developing as Meditation Instructors (MIs) and support them in cultivating skills to assist others.
This series of three weekends is designed to help meditation practitioners who are interested in developing as Meditation Instructors (MIs) and support them in cultivating skills to assist others.