Kootenay Shambhala Meditation Center Calendar

Description: The job of the Practice and Education Committee is to oversee and coordinate all aspects of Shambhala Buddhist training. These include meditation practice, Open House, Buddhist studies, Nalanda contemplative arts training and Shambhala Training.

All members are invited to participate.

For more information, contact Jim Northcote at info@nelsonbuddha.com.

Description: Meditation practice sessions highlight the Shambhala community's core practice�mindfulness-awareness meditation�in both sitting and walking forms. Most sessions start and end with chants. Participants are welcome to come and go as they choose.

Open to anyone, free of charge or by donation

For more information, contact us at info@nelsonbuddha.com.

Description: Stroke practice is a contemplative calligraphy discipline. It involves cutting through self-concept by executing the "stroke of Ashe," which represents unconditional confidence.

Restricted to Warrior Assembly graduates

For more information, contact Jim Northcote at info@nelsonbuddha.com.

Description: Each vajrayana practice and study session comprises two hours of vajrayana practice�done in silence (except for bells and damarus), unless a group feast is taking place�followed by a group discussion of the week's readings.

This program is restricted to Shambhala vajrayana students.

For more information, contact Jim Northcote at info@nelsonbuddha.com.

Description: Meditation practice sessions highlight the Shambhala community's core practice�mindfulness-awareness meditation�in both sitting and walking forms. Most sessions start and end with chants. Sunday sessions include mid-morning refreshments and, occasionally, short teachings and/or maitri bhavana healing practice. Participants are welcome to come and go as they choose.

Open to anyone, free of charge or by donation

For more information, contact us at info@nelsonbuddha.com.

Description: The role of the Drala Committee is to keep the Shambhala Centre at its sparkling best for the benefit of all. (To learn about drala, see Sakyong Mipham's book "Ruling Your World.") The scope of this committee's work includes not just cleaning but also painting and decorating, creating flower arrangements, installing displays of good local art, and more.

Drala Committee parties are opportunities to join in the effort of running the Centre and have fun at the same time. You don't have to be a member to participate!

For more information, contact Jim Northcote at info@nelsonbuddha.com.

Description: The Shambhala Council is the organizational hub of our Centre. Its job is to guide, support and harmonize all of the Centre's activities according to the vision of realizing enlightened society, at our Centre and beyond.

All members are invited to participate.

For more information, contact Lynn Dragone at 250-352-1964 or info@nelsonbuddha.com.

Description: Werma practice is a particularly powerful way of realizing the principle of egoless warriorship. The feast offering is an opportunity for participants to purify violations of their vows to experience the world as sacred.

All Kalapa Assembly graduates and Shambhala tantrikas who have received the lungs are encouraged to attend.

For more information, contact Jim Northcote at info@nelsonbuddha.com.

Description: "The Sadhana of Mahamudra" is a text written by Ch�gyam Trungpa Rinpoche. It embodies a way of invoking the energy and wisdom of the Kagy� and Nyingma lineages and cutting through all forms of dogmatism. The practice involves chanting the text and relaxing into the atmosphere that doing so creates.

Open to anyone, free of charge or by donation

For more information, contact us at info@nelsonbuddha.com.

Description: Meditation practice sessions highlight the Shambhala community's core practice�mindfulness-awareness meditation�in both sitting and walking forms. Most sessions start and end with chants. Sunday sessions include mid-morning refreshments and, occasionally, short teachings and/or maitri bhavana healing practice. Participants are welcome to come and go as they choose.

Open to anyone, free of charge or by donation

For more information, contact us at info@nelsonbuddha.com.