Monthly Archives: March 2010

Shambhala Level II: Birth of the Warrior

By Dave | Published: March 21
[ April 9; April 10; April 11; ] The Manchester Shambhala Meditation Group is pleased to offer Level II of Shambhala Training with Roger Guest. Having experienced a taste of basic goodness, we want to go forward. Meditation practice allows us to observe how we create a cocoon of habits to mask our fear. We begin to appreciate that there is no [...]
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Meditation Instruction, Just Sit

By Dave | Published: March 7
[ July 7; July 14; July 28; August 18; ] On certain Wednesday evenings we're happy to offer basic meditation instruction in shamatha (calm-abiding) practice to any participant as part of our Just Sit hour. Feel free to join us!
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Vipashyana & Union

By Dave | Published: February 22
[ March 9; March 16; March 23; March 30; April 6; ] This five week class will consider the Vipashyana aspects of meditation practice. In some respects, Shamatha can be considered as a highly-focused meditation technique that keeps returning us to the present moment until the mind gains some stability. The Vipashyana aspect of meditation then begins to arise and becomes the foundation for awakening into the [...]
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Second Annual Community Meeting

By Dave | Published: February 1
[ March 2; ] Our annual Community Meeting will take place on Tuesday, March 2, from 7 to 9 pm This is an opportunity for the leadership council to offer insight into the workings of the center, and allows considerable time for feedback, ideas and brainstorming from all participants. Last year's meeting was a tremendous success, and resulted [...]
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Sadhana of Mahamudra in March

By Dave | Published: January 24
[ March 30; ] Please join us on Tuesday, March 30, at 6:00 pm for a special practice of the Sadhana of Mahamudra, a text which was transcribed by Chogyam Trungpa in 1968 while residing in a sacred cave in Bhutan. This practice text is quite advanced, but experience shows that it is accessible to beginning [...]
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