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Welcome to New Haven
Shambhala Meditation Center
The New Haven Shambhala Center
offers ongoing training in meditation, study,
and contemplative arts to help us awaken our true
nature and infuse our everyday activities with
wisdom, compassion, and a sense of humor.
About Us
Established in 1975, we are part of Shambhala
International, a community of meditation centers
founded by the late Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche,
a Tibetan Buddhist meditation master, artist,
author, and poet. Today, the Shambhala tradition
is led by Trungpa Rinpoche's son, Sakyong Mipham
Rinpoche.
Shambhala represents a willingness to awaken
into our world with fearlessness, and to appreciate
the wealth and subtlety that surrounds us. This
can be discovered through the study and practice
of traditional Buddhism or other disciplines which
cultivate our hearts as well as our awareness.
At the Shambhala Center, we try to present a range
of disciplines which share one core ethic: Wakeful
intelligence. Our community includes people of
all ages and walks of life who are exploring their
world as individuals, together. We provide an
open meditation space, instruction in meditation
for beginners or experienced practitioners, and
a diverse variety of evening and weekend programs
that help provide the tools to discover compassion
and wisdom in day-to-day life.
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Upcoming
Programs:
Five Wisdom Energies
taught by Irini Rockwell
NOVEMBER 21st - 23rd: This is a weekend about the five Buddha family energies. Discovering the particular way we perceive and interact with our world can yield enormous insight into our patterns of behavior, emotions and relationships. As we become familiar with our mix of energies, we learn to befriend them, having a sense of unconditional loving kindness towards ourselves.
Shambhala Training Level II: Birth of the Warrior
DECEMBER 5 - 7: This second weekend of Shambhala Training intensifies the discipline of meditation practice, enabling participants to work with obstacles that may have arisen as meditation practice develops. We also explore how habitual ways of thinking and experiencing obscure the raw brilliance of the world we live in and our own genuineness and tenderness. Finally, we learn how to work with the fear that occurs when we move forward out of these habitual patterns.
First Monday Open House
7:30 p.m. - 9:30 p.m. on the first Monday evening of each
month
A senior student from the New Haven Shambhala
Center community will present a short talk on
topics related to meditation and daily life
from the Buddhist and Shambhala teachings.
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