Video: New Year’s greetings from Thrangu Rinpoche, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, and Tulku Damcho Rinpoche

Video: New Year’s greetings from Thrangu Rinpoche, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, and Tulku Damcho Rinpoche

Video: New Year’s greetings from Thrangu Rinpoche, Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche, and Tulku Damcho Rinpoche

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 08:00 AM PST

In this new video, the Very Venerable Khenchen Thrangu Rinpoche, who recently had a bout of ill health, shares his message for the new year.

Click through here for more New Year's video messages from Tulku Damcho Rinpoche, and Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche — whose message was recorded shortly before he left his monastery in India to spend a number of years meditating in solitary retreat.

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Video: Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche has a New Year’s message for you

Posted: 04 Jan 2012 07:10 AM PST

From Tibetan Buddhist master Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche comes a message for us all as we head into the new year.

What's notable about this message, besides its content, is that Rinpoche is probably nowhere near a camera, and hasn't been for some time. The message was shot in advance; for, in June of 2011, Rinpoche left his monastery in India to follow the life of a wandering yogi, staying in isolated retreats with no fixed plan or agenda.

You can read all about the how and why of this extraordinary decision in "The Wanderer" a feature story by Andrea Miller, in the next Shambhala Sun magazine.

See also: We Always Have Joy — The sun doesn't stop shining just because there are clouds in the sky. Our buddhanature is always present and available, even when life gets difficult. Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche shows us how to discover the joy and awareness that are never affected by life's ups and downs.

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Monk seeks to attract Generation Y to Japanese temples

Posted: 03 Jan 2012 06:02 PM PST

Keisuke Matsumoto, a 32-year-old Japanese Buddhist monk of the Jodo Shinshu sect and a graduate of the Indian School of Business, is looking to use his management skills to help bring more young people to Buddhist in Japan. Matsumoto believes that basic management studies, undertaken by monks such as himself, will be the key to bringing those of Generation Y to services.

In an article featured in The Economic Times of India, Matsumoto says, "While Buddhist is my life, I am not satisfied with its current situation. To promote Buddhist among modern people, we have to make it more relevant."

For a more complete breakdown of his overall strategy, please visit The Economic Times.

(Photo by gabriellarodriguez via Flickr using a CC-BY license.)

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re-Occupying the Cabaret-Long Version

Posted: 03 Jan 2012 04:00 PM PST

This is the expanded version of my somewhat rambling thinking regarding re-opening this old blog. I'm not sure if the post is finished but I'm tired of writing it, so if there's sentences left dangling or misspellings etc…just move on. I have. I wanted to make a decision about this blog. Then I ran across [...] Read More @ Source




Great Stuff About the End of the World: 2012 edition

Posted: 03 Jan 2012 03:00 PM PST

Satirical writer Andy Borowitz [@BorowitzReport] wrote on Twitter: One upside of a 2012 Mayan apocalypse is no more Republican debates. #2012 #HappyNewYear         Dec 31, 2011 Aside from the end of the fake debates, there's more good news for 2012's apocalypse: No more fake Kardasian weddings. No more fake orange-glow tans (Boehner, Trump, Snooki). No more [...] Read More @ Source




Why Shout?

Posted: 03 Jan 2012 02:01 PM PST

A Buddha asked his disciples, 'Why do we shout in anger?
Why do people shout at each other when they are upset?'

Disciples thought for a while, one of them said, 'Because we lose our calm, we shout for that.'

'But, why to shout when the other person is just next to you?' asked the Buddha.
'Isn't it possible to speak to him or her with a soft voice?
Why do you shout at a person when you're angry?'

The answer can be found here on Beyond The Opposites blog.

Thank you for the link to long time sangha friend Norman in California.

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re-Occupying the Cabaret-Long Version

Posted: 03 Jan 2012 01:02 PM PST

This is the expanded version of my somewhat rambling thinking regarding re-opening this old blog. I'm not sure if the post is finished but I'm tired of writing it, so if there's sentences left dangling or misspellings etc…just move on. I have. I wanted to make a decision about this blog. Then I ran across [...] Read More @ Source

Pema Chodron "Ripe Times"

eomega.org A leading exponent of teachings on meditation and how they apply to everyday life, Pema Chödrön is widely known for her insightful, down-to-earth interpretation of Tibetan Meditation for Western audiences. Chödrön is the resident teacher at Gampo Abbey in Cape Breton, Nova Scotia, the first Tibetan monastery for Westerners. An American Buddhist nun, she began studying Meditation in the early 1970s, working closely with the renowned Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche of the Shambhala Buddhist tradition until his death in 1987. She is currently a student of Dzigar Kontrul Rinpoche. From years of study and monastic training, she addresses complex issues with a clarity that bespeaks the fruits of her practice. Chödrön is interested in helping establish Tibetan Buddhist monastacism in the West, as well as continuing her work with Western Buddhists of all traditions, sharing ideas and teachings. She is the author of numerous books and audiobooks, including When Things Fall Apart; The Places That Scare You; The Wisdom of No Escape; Getting Unstuck; Start Where You Are; The Pema Chödrön Audio Collection; Comfortable With Uncertainty; No Time to Lose; Always Maintain a Joyful Mind (lojong teachings); and Practicing Peace in Times of War.

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Video: BBC reports on mindfulness meditation, happiness, and the science that may show their connection

Posted: 03 Jan 2012 12:07 PM PST

Via David Sillito of the BBC comes this report — with more to come —  featuring Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard (aka, the "happiest man in the world") and others, exploring the connection behind mindfulness meditation and science.

For more on mindfulness, its benefits, and the science behind it all, check out "The New Science of Mind," in the March 2012 issue of the Shambhala Sun magazine.

And for much more on mindfulness, science, and health, visit Mindful.org.

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Kagyu Monlam with HH the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa and Kunzig Shamar Rinpoche in Bodh Gaya, 2011

For the past five years, ever since 2007, the Kagyu Mönlam Chenmo has been taking place every year. This year's Mönlam opened on December 14, 2011, with the lighting of the sacrificial lamp by His Holiness the 17th Gyalwa Karmapa Trinley Thaye Dorje, before He took His seat on the throne to lead the assembled monastic and lay sangha in the recitation of praises to different enlightened aspects and aspiration prayers for world peace and the enlightenment of all beings.

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Former chief of Jogye Order, Ven. Jigwan, dies at 80

Posted: 03 Jan 2012 11:00 AM PST

Ven. Jigwan, the former chief executive of the Jogye Order of Korean Buddhism, died Monday at Gyeongguksa in Seoul, South Korea due to asthma complications. He was 80 years old.

Ven. Jigwan began his studies of Buddhism in 1947 before ordaining as a monk at Tongdosa in 1953. He received his PhD in philosophy from Dongguk University in 1976 and later established the Gasan Buddhist Culture Center in 1991. He served as president of Dongguk University from 1986 to 1990 and as chief executive of the Jogye Order from 2005 to 2009. His funeral and cremation ceremony will be held at Haeinsa this Friday.

Read more on this story at the The Korea Herald.

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Are you “desperate to unplug”?

Posted: 03 Jan 2012 10:02 AM PST

Pico Iyer — the bestselling author and a favorite Shambhala Sun contributor for many of our readers — has a new New York Times piece about our need to disengage from our gadgets. "In barely one generation," writes Pico, "we've moved from exulting in the time-saving devices that have so expanded our lives to trying to get away from them — often in order to make more time. The more ways we have to connect, the more many of us seem desperate to unplug."

"That's why," he proposes, "more and more people I know, even if they have no religious commitment, seem to be turning to yoga, or meditation, or tai chi; these aren't New Age fads so much as ways to connect with what could be called the wisdom of old age." Read Iyer's entire piece online here. (And for more, see our special Spotlight of Pico's best articles from the Shambhala Sun.)

In fact, our gadget addiction is so bad that — as also addressed in Roger Cohen's Times Op-Ed from today — that some companies — like Volkswagen — are more or less prohibiting their workers from checking their emails when they're off the clock. A step in the right direction? Probably. "To be permanently switched on," writes Cohen, "is also to switch off to what takes time to be seen. A lot of good ideas, as well as some of life's deeper satisfactions, can get lost that way."(See more on that, here.)

See also: "Connected" filmmaker Tiffany Shlain asks, "What Have We Become?" | Steve Silberman on navigating the web mindfully | …plus lots more on technology via Shambhala SunSpace, here.

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