Looking at the life of Chögyam Trungpa

Looking at the life of Chögyam Trungpa

Looking at the life of Chögyam Trungpa

Posted: 26 Jan 2012 07:02 AM PST

Photo (detail) by James Gimian. Used by permission.

This year marks the 25th anniversary of the death of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche — the great Buddhist teacher who (among many other accomplishments) founded the Shambhala Sun. To mark this, our January 2012 magazine includes "Ocean of Dharma," Barry Boyce's look at the life and work of Trungpa Rinpoche, and we'll be sharing teachings from Rinpoche in the magazine all year. (Look for "A Meditation Instruction," the first of these teachings in our next, March 2012 magazine.)

Also remembering Trungpa Rinpoche are our friends at Sounds True, who are offering "When Lightning Strikes," a six-week, online, interactive event series about his life and teachings. It begins on February 15. For information about "When Lightning Strikes," click here.

We'll have more details on the next issue of the Shambhala Sun for you soon. In the meantime, why not sample "Ocean of Dharma" here, and browse our special Spotlight page on the teachings of Chögyam Trungpa?

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Altruistic JOY Guided Meditation

Welcome! Continuing our studies on Buddhism, our topic in this video is about mudita, or sympathetic joy. This one of the four divine abodes that the Buddha taught. Here you can do a real guided meditation. I am Brian Ruhe, a Buddhist follower and lay teacher. I teach Buddhism and meditation in Vancouver, Canada in adult ed. at several school boards and community centres. I am also available to lead private and professional retreats, and to mentor on a one-to-one basis by Skype. You can call my Skype address at: BrianARuhe For more information please do visit my website www.theravada.ca . My latest book "A SHORT WALK ON AN ANCIENT PATH - A Buddhist Exploration of Meditation, Karma and Rebirth", is available from Amazon.com at: www.amazon.com I was a Buddhist monk in Chiangmai, Thailand and I have been teaching Theravada Buddhism and meditation for 15 years. My first book from 1999, is "Freeing the Buddha," also at Amazon. I follow the Theravada Forest tradition with Ajahn Sona at www.birken.ca .

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Looking at the life of Chögyam Trungpa

Posted: 26 Jan 2012 07:00 AM PST

Photo (detail) by James Gimian. Used by permission.

This year marks the 25th anniversary of the death of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche — the great Buddhist teacher who (among many other accomplishments) founded the Shambhala Sun. To mark this, our January 2012 magazine includes "Ocean of Dharma," Barry Boyce's look at the life and work of Trungpa Rinpoche, and we'll be sharing teachings from Rinpoche in the magazine all year. (Look for "A Meditation Instruction," the first of these teachings in our next, March 2012 magazine.)

Also remembering Trungpa Rinpoche are our friends at Sounds True, who are offering "When Lightning Strikes," a six-week, online, interactive event series about his life and teachings. It begins on February 15. For information about "When Lightning Strikes," click here.

We'll have more details on the next issue of the Shambhala Sun for you soon. In the meantime, why not sample "Ocean of Dharma" here, and browse our special Spotlight page on the teachings of Chögyam Trungpa?

Read More @ Source

Altruistic JOY Guided Meditation

Welcome! Continuing our studies on Buddhist, our topic in this video is about mudita, or sympathetic joy. This one of the four divine abodes that the Buddha taught. Here you can do a real guided meditation. I am Brian Ruhe, a Buddhist follower and lay teacher. I teach Buddhist and meditation in Vancouver, Canada in adult ed. at several school boards and community centres. I am also available to lead private and professional retreats, and to mentor on a one-to-one basis by Skype. You can call my Skype address at: BrianARuhe For more information please do visit my website www.theravada.ca . My latest book "A SHORT WALK ON AN ANCIENT PATH - A Buddhist Exploration of Meditation, Karma and Rebirth", is available from Amazon.com at: www.amazon.com I was a Buddhist monk in Chiangmai, Thailand and I have been teaching Theravada Buddhist and meditation for 15 years. My first book from 1999, is "Freeing the Buddha," also at Amazon. I follow the Theravada Forest tradition with Ajahn Sona at www.birken.ca .

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Grappling With Teaching

Posted: 25 Jan 2012 04:00 PM PST

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Just because it was there...!

I've received several appreciative emails following the long post about Being Good For Others. It really points to, or tries to address, the testing question of 'teaching'. Perhaps more in the informal sense of teaching.

Walter very kindly sent in a link to a YouTube video of the last section of Amongst White Clouds a film about hermits in the mountains of China. The ancient monk is grappling with the matter of teaching from ones own experience. He is a humble monk, and he glows. Just watching his face is teaching enough.

Thanks Walter, as always.

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1991 Wat Promkunaram massacre retrial begins

Posted: 25 Jan 2012 03:00 PM PST

Jonathan Doody booking shot

In 1991, Wat Promkunaram in Waddell, Arizona was shaken by a mass murder — the largest in the state's history — which left six monks, a nun and two temple helpers dead. Two years later, a seventeen-year-old Jonathan Doody was convicted for the crime. He was sentenced to 281 years in prison, based on the testimony of an alleged accomplice and his own confession.

In 2010 Doody's conviction was thrown out, however, by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which found that his confession had been coerced. The conviction was again overturned in 2011 when the same court was asked to reconsider the case, sending it back Maricopa County Superior Court for retrial.

Doody returned to court on January 24 at Maricopa County Superior Court, where he is now being retried for the slayings; prosecutors will have to make their case without his confession, which his original conviction relied heavily upon.

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