Your Home Energy Assessment Helps the Shambhala Center!
The Shambhala Meditation Center of Boston has been working hard to become as energy efficient as possible. You may remember we hosted a volunteer day with HEET, an award-winning nonprofit that gets paid through grants to help reduce energy use of people in Massachusetts through various methods. HEET wants to help pay for future energy … Continue
What Is Membership?
Do you feel at home at the Boston Shambhala Center? Or perhaps you feel like you live at the Shambhala Center? Everyone has their own unique relationship with the center. Some people dive right in, others go slowly. Some enjoy the classes most, others appreciate the community. Some people have been involved at the center … Continue
Wisdom
By Matt Robert wisdom isn’t safe or gentle it’s striated and expansive like cricket wings or nebulae or spandex it pounds on the door where others are asleep or unborn and radiates awareness it tickles life with the tiny hairs of a chromosome then recedes unbidden wisdom isn’t having a moment … Continue
Visit from Temo of Kiev!
We had the delightful opportunity this week to meet Temo Svirely, who founded the Shambhala group in Kiev, Ukraine. Temo, who is an artist, was in town to support his exhibition, which is on display at the Trident Bookstore. Temo joined the center staff for our regular Monday afternoon practice and chanted the “Dedication of … Continue
Shambhala Boston: Improper Bostonian Article
Check out this article in the most recent Improper Bostonian by Jonathan Soroff: Escaping the Noises in My Head “Not all great escapes require a passport, sunscreen and a wad of cash. In fact, according to its practitioners, one of the most intense journeys you can take in life requires nothing more than a cushion … Continue
Shambhala Boston: In the World
Written by Mary Coonan At the Sakyong’s urging, the Boston Shambhala Center has been actively connecting with synergistic opportunities in the community to join with efforts to uncover basic goodness within different professional realms. On October 25th, Shastri Carolyn Krusinski presented meditation instructions to over 250 doctors, nurses, nutritionists, chiropractors, and other medical personnel at … Continue
Kindness and the Environment
This summer we have taken strides to lessen our buildings impact on the environment. This is a natural extension of our practice of kindness and gentleness. First we began by engaging an organization that assessed our impact through water, gas and electrical use. They then lead a group of volunteers to take measures to lessen … Continue
Summer Highlights
Hello everyone! We’re now launching into our fall season here at the Boston Shambhala Center, but before we dive all the way in, I’d like to take a moment to reflect on the summer. It was a wonderful summer here for us. Summer tends to be the “slow” time of year, as many people are … Continue
2011 Year End Numbers
by Caitlin Cianflone, Head of Finance Overall, 2011 was a good financial year for the Shambhala Meditation Center of Boston. Our finances stayed stable through a change in leadership and the addition of a third full-time position. The Resource Development Committee, headed by Larry Teitelbaum and Kathy Vieweg, led a wide-scale campaign asking members … Continue
Our New Website!
Welcome to Boston’s new Website! Blue Mandala has worked hard to create this WordPress template which was made available for centers to use in April. We will still be adding, editing and moving things around as we go; so your patience, ideas and encouragement are deeply appreciated. Take a look around and enjoy the new … Continue
