A Message from the Director and Team at Gampo Abbey and the April 2024 Gampo Abbey Newsletter As I write this we are in the final days of the Yarne retreat – a 45-day traditional monastic retreat that has been fulfilled since the time of the Buddha’s first sangha. For the first time since the […] The post Precious Silence – The Gift of Retreat first appeared on Shambhala Times Community News Magazine ..read more

True Stories from a Buddhist Psychotherapist By Paul Cashman A book review by Christine Heming There is room for messy emotions and feelings. . . We don’t need to fix ourselves or someone else. Our emotional lives are totally workable. We can make our emotions work for us instead of against us. Reading Paul Cashman’s […] The post Brilliant Emotions—Great Agony, Great Promise first appeared on Shambhala Times Community News Magazine ..read more

By Sean McCann An Excerpt from the Shambhala Online Community Blog Mindful parenting is a rich and multifaceted topic. How can mindfulness inform our parenting? And how does parenting affect our mindfulness and meditation practice? In this article, we’ll look at three related questions: In addition to sharing resources on mindful parenting, I spoke to […] The post Mindful Parenting: How Parenting and Mindfulness Practice Can Support Each Other first appeared on Shambhala Times Community News Magazine ..read more

by Emily Takahashi An Excerpt from the Shambhala Touching the Earth Collective March Newsletter For a recent Touching the Earth Salon, I was asked to share a little about a practice I did over the course of one year, 365 days in succession. In November 2020 I took an online class with a ceremonial leader from […] The post Sun Ceremony first appeared on Shambhala Times Community News Magazine ..read more

An Excerpt from the Shambhala Blog by Kathleen Walls Much of the suffering in our lives is rooted in fear. Fortunately, Buddhism and meditation offer excellent supports for working with fear—and with anxiety, the worry about uncertain threats that many of us carry in contemporary life. Fear is pervasive, especially in this world of polarization, […] The post Buddhism on Fear: How to Practice Meditation for Fear and Anxiety first appeared on Shambhala Times Community News Magazine ..read more

Entering Into the Year of the Wood Dragon Shambhala Day was on Feb 10 this year and hundreds of people from around the world joined together at Shambhala Centres, Groups, and the homes of family and friends to watch the Shambhala Day Live Broadcast and welcome in the Year of the Wood Dragon. This 30-minute broadcast included an audio […] The post Shambhala Day Live Broadcast first appeared on Shambhala Times Community News Magazine ..read more

Shambhala Touching the Earth Collective February 2024 Newsletter In preparing for the upcoming Wood Dragon year, the Steering Committee has created a document of agreed upon goals…But as we have learned in the last few years, things change, oh my oh my. We are already off to an unimagined start. The Shambhala Touching the Earth Collective […] The post Year of the Wood Dragon first appeared on Shambhala Times Community News Magazine ..read more

A Message from the Director and the Team at Gampo Abbey   The year 2023 was a period of retreat and renewal for our monastic community. We repaired buildings, fixed lots of plumbing problems, improved landscaping features, and trimmed trees — all while maintaining our commitment to the Dharma and using our monastic forms and […] The post Nourishing our Winter Garden first appeared on Shambhala Times Community News Magazine ..read more

An Excerpt from the January 2024 Gampo Abbey Newsletter During the 49 days following the parinirvana of Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche our friends at Karma Changchub Ling in Halifax hosted daily practices. On July 17, 2023 in the Mahasangha room of KCCL, they invited Ani Pema to speak about her long relationship with KTR, Abbot of […] The post Pema Chödron Offers Reflections on Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche first appeared on Shambhala Times Community News Magazine ..read more

Karmê Chöling October 2023 by Eric Zechman The third Warrior Assembly of the year brought more than 50 people to Karmê Chöling, situated deep in the Green mountains of Northern Vermont, on the traditional territory of the Abenaki people. It was late October and the weather was unseasonably warm with no frost in sight, a sign […] The post Warrior Assembly first appeared on Shambhala Times Community News Magazine ..read more