Blog Profile / Shambhala SunSpace
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| Archived Since: | November 5, 2010 | |
Blog Post Archive
Thich Nhat Hanh: “My calligraphy contains mindfulness and tea”
Thich Nhat Hanh is best-known as a Buddhist teacher, but his skills as an artist were on display this weekend in Bangkok. An exhibit of his calligraphy is on display there this month, and he gave a demonstration of his artistic process, mixing tea with Chinese ink and using a brush to create circles and [...]
Books in Brief — From the May 2013 Shambhala Sun
Looking for a great new read? Andrea Miller reviews new titles from Natalie Goldberg, Thich Nhat Hanh, Michael Carroll, and more in the May Shambhala Sun. Click here to read them all. To see what else is in our May magazine, click here. If you’re not a subscriber, click here to subscribe and save half.
Iconic poet and Buddhist Allen Ginsberg remembered…
…by Allen Ginsberg! Today’s ShambhalaSun.com feature is the spiritual autobiography of the late poet, who died sixteen years ago today. To read it, just click the image above — or here.
From The Under 35 Project: “Could We Be So Brave?”
“Calling all young dharma practitioners!” writes Jessica Bizub. “The world needs our genuine, open hearts. Could we be brave and allow our practice to unfold into enlightened culture? Could I be so brave?” I have the privilege of working with high school-aged students in my volunteer life. These young people are full of optimism, kindness, [...]
Remembering Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche on the anniversary of his death
Today is the 26th anniversary of the death of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche — the great Buddhist teacher who (among many other accomplishments) founded the Shambhala Sun. Whether you’re familiar with Rinpoche or not, you may want to check out “Ocean of Dharma,” Barry Boyce’s one-of-a-kind look at the life and work of Trungpa Rinpoche. The [...]
Appreciating the “Songs of” — and life of — Leonard Cohen
What a good idea: SPIN magazine has created an in-depth list of the The Top 100 Alternative Albums of the 1960?s. It’s quite smart, and in one fell swoop dismantles the idea (one that a surprising amount of people seem to subscribe to) that all music of that decade was made of samey-same flower-power kind [...]
This week’s “Seeing Fresh” contemplative photo
Every week we choose a photo submitted to Andy Karr’s contemplative photography site seeingfresh.com that really exemplifies the practice. This week’s photo, by J. W. Simonds, is as fresh as newly fallen snow. It’s also elegant and delightful. It’s a fine example of fresh seeing. For more about contemplative photography, and lots of other great photos, [...]
The May Shambhala Sun is here — look inside now.
Our May magazine is on newsstands now, featuring “The Dude & the Zen Master,” Andrea Miller‘s profile of “Buddhistly bent” actor Jeff Bridges and Zen teacher Bernie Glassman as they reflect on the friendship, spirituality, and shared sense of social responsibility documented in their new hit book. There’s also a new teaching from Glassman (online [...]
Meet “Mayor Buddha”
What’s in a name? If you’d asked the citizens of Lemig, Vermont a week ago what makes Mayor Ronald Green qualified for the job of running their fair city, you’d have gotten a host of replies: He’s “trustworthy.” He’s of “old Lemig blood.” But ask them today, and there’s a distinct change in tone: “Ronald [...]
Read Rick Bass’ “The Best Place,” from our March magazine
Author and environmentalist Rick Bass showed his friend Scott the best places, the secret places, of Montana’s remote Yaak Valley. Together, they fought to protect the wilderness and dreamed of a new Atlantis in the mountains. “He and I,” writes Bass in “The Best Place,” from our March issue, “have fought many amazing battles. We [...]
From The Under 35 Project: “The Case for Kindness”
Most people think of kindness as the act of being nice to others, writes Michael Felberbaum. But there’s another perspective of kindness that is so common it often goes unnoticed: a simple sense of being of the same kind. There’s a risk that you’ll read this title and automatically interpret it as: “A Case for [...]
Video: Experience ten minutes of an eight-week “Retreat”
Made by Canadian filmmaker David Cherniack, the new documentary film Retreat follows thirty-five Westerners — some who are beginners at meditation — “as they attempt an intense, eight-week, silent retreat in Thailand with the American Buddhist teacher, B. Show More Summary
Japanese fashion house offers “a casual style based on the [Zen] priest aesthetic”
Zen priests who want to be stylish (and stylish people who want to look like Zen priests) need look no further than Bon, a Hiroshima-based fashion house. According to their website, Bon’s goal is to “create a casual style based on the priest aesthetic.” Using input from priests about the clothes they’d like to wear, [...]
X-Men’s Wolverine: A Zen Buddhist?
Is Wolverine a Buddhist? Well, that may be pushing things, but as Jeffrey Kripal’s book Mutants and Mystics: Science Fiction, Superhero Comics, and the Paranormal says, “Wolverine spent some time in Japan as a boy, speaks fluent Japanese, and practices Zazen.” (He also, as Kripal adds, has practiced tai chi.) And now that he’s got [...]
Anger and the “Emotional Rollercoaster”
Your throat is contracting, your fists are clenching — but don’t deny your anger, says Polly Young-Eisendrath in her Shambhala Sun article, “The Hidden Treasure of Anger.” Instead, learn to mine it for new ways to work with yourself and the people you love. To read it, click here. A Jungian analyst in private practice [...]
Because everyone should have the right to live “Happily Ever After”
We’re into an historic week: Today, the controversial Prop 8 was argued before the US Supreme Court, and tomorrow will give way to discussion of the federal recognition of all legal marriages. To that end, we want to point you to “Happily Ever After,” a beautiful piece that our friend, the great writer Steve Silberman, [...]
Born I Music, profiled in our March magazine, shares a favorite dharma-song
As you may know, our March magazine features an in-depth look at the ever-expanding world of Buddhist music — among them, the rapper/musician/producer (and, meditation teacher) Born I Music. We asked him a simple question: Can you tell us about another musician’s song, one that, for you, really captures something about Buddhist practice? He answered [...]
Read Josh Korda’s “Every Day a Reprieve,” from the March 2013 Shambhala Sun magazine
Josh Korda — teacher at New York’s Dharma Punx since 2005 — knows he is not cured, and that he never will be. But through honesty and diligence he enjoys a daily reprieve from depression and addiction. Josh tells his story in “Every Day a Reprieve,” one of four “Tales of Trauma and Transformation” recounted [...]
From The Under 35 Project: “The Space of Emptiness”
The gift a flash of emptiness can give, writes Leslie Gossett, is an opening to the world. There are moments, more frequent these days, when I feel as if I am waking up outside of myself with an immense view of my life. I want to say that it feels like a nightmare, but it’s [...]
A Brief Moment in Deep Time
. In the Mojave Desert, J. Jason Graff reflects on silence, time, and slowing down in our modern age through mindfulness.. While walking slowly through the Mojave desert I found what looked like part of an old desert tortoise’s shell, sun bleached and chalky, broken into pieces that fit together like a puzzle in [...]