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Saving Yourself Saving Yourself Myanmar's prominent Buddhist monk talks peace and unity The Mind-Body Connection and the “Emotional Rollercoaster” Dorsky Museum presents “Anonymous,” an exhibit of contemporary Tibetan art Saving Yourself Posted: 01 Jul 2013 07:00 PM PDT This is a very compelling narrative from someone who detoxed and just finished rehab and is trying to get themselves clear. We all know somebody who's been there even if we haven't exactly been there ourselves. The Shitshow & The Oxygen Mask: A Postmodern Narrative I find the end of it particularly poignant–I feel this is true not only of this process but of things like Buddhist practice. You put on your oxygen mask first. You do what you can in the world, but you've got to save yourself first. It won't take long until I can help others, you think. You take it one day at a time. Read More @ Source Saving Yourself Posted: 01 Jul

Meet Konchog Norbu, our newest Shambhala Sun online contributor Posted: 01 Jul 2013 09:00 AM PDT There's a new online contributor among us here at the Shambhala Sun Foundation, so we thought we'd let him introduce himself. Friends, meet Konchog Norbu , who recently began writing regularly for us both here and at Buddhadharma News . About himself he says: "I come from a family of bibliophiles in which Scrabble games were gladiatorial in their intensity, and disownment was the implied threat if you couldn't write a clever letter that made the recipient snort and immediately snatch up a pen to reply. (Yes, people once wrote letters to one another. With pens.) Carrying that momentum into the study of 20 th century American literature and creative writing at Brown University, I discovered my favorite application of whatever talent I possessed was promoting cool stuff that I loved. In and just out of college, this mainly meant underground music and performance,