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This talk includes some presentation of art including Audio and Video.  To see the visual pieces please visit shambhala online in sunday gatherings online and look for this talk ..read more

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Protector Practice Talk with Q/A and full Protector Chants with Mamos ..read more

Solstice presentation and Celebration with music and other offerings   ..read more

Reality is characterised by impermanence. It is a mark of the Buddhist view that everything changes.  We habitually grasp or push or ignore. These attitudes can be seen as strategies to hold on - to something, anything - and to protect the comforting fiction of our solid and unchanging selves.  This mark of impermanence can guide us in our path and our practice. Is our meditation supposed to put us into a desirable, unchanging state of mind? Or is it an opportunity to let go into the unruly flow of life from moment to moment? To join in the impermanence of everything, especially our ..read more

In this talk, Jonathan will explore how we learn to trust ourselves, how we can extend that trust out to others, and how the path of meditation helps us listen to the experience of those whose voices are silenced by institutional oppression.  ..read more