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Schedule of Shambhala Training Programs in Cleveland
The Shambhala Training Weekend Format
SHAMBHALA TRAINING:
The Sacred Path of the Warrior
"The Shambhala teachings are
founded on the premise that there is basic human wisdom that can help
to solve the world's problems. This wisdom does not belong to any one
culture or religion, nor does it come only from the West or the East.
Rather, it is a tradition of human warriorship that has existed in
many cultures at many times throughout history."
--from Shambhala-The Sacred Path of the Warrior, by
Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, copyright 1984.
Reprinted by arrangement with Shambhala
Publications, Inc., Boston http://www.shambhala.com/
Shambhala Training is a secular meditation program
which emphasizes both a deepening experience of meditation and an
integration of that experience into daily life. By bringing
the mindfulness cultivated through meditation into everyday experience, we are able to change
our own lives and the world around us.
Shambhala Training is presented initially in a series of five
weekend workshops. Each weekend consists of a series of talks by a senior
teacher, individual meetings with a meditation instructor, group discussions,
and periods of sitting and walking meditation.
Shambhala teachings cultivate unconditional confidence and sanity,
the straightforward practice of being what we are, fearlessly and without
hesitation. By discovering our own awakened nature through the practice
of meditation, we can uplift our state of mind and then extend our gentleness
and wisdom to the world around us.
Level I: The Art of Being Human. This first weekend of Shambhala
Training introduces participants to the practice of sitting and walking
meditation. In addition, we learn the basic principles of the Shambhala
path of warriorship. There is a basic, good energy present in all of
our experience, and this basic goodness, innate to the way things
are, is our own inborn, unconditional nature as well.
Level II: Birth of the Warrior. This second weekend of Shambhala Training intensifies the
discipline of meditation practice, enabling participants to work with
obstacles that may have arisen as meditation practice develops. We also
explore how habitual ways of thinking and experiencing obscure the raw
brilliance of the world we live in and our own genuineness and
tenderness. Finally, we learn how to work with the fear that occurs when
we move forward out of these habitual patterns.
Level III: Warrior in the World. In this third weekend of Shambhala training, we work in a
deliberate way to bring the mindfulness and awareness we cultivate
during meditation practice into everyday life. Alive to our sense
perceptions, we can venture in the world with a vulnerability that is
fearless, gentle, and awake.
Level IV: Awakened Heart. When we enter the world in an
open and vulnerable way, we let the world touch our heart, and our heart
wakes up to the touch. We encounter the world with clear perception,
freed of our conventional ways of thinking and experiencing.
Level V: Open Sky. With our
body resting on the earth, no different from the earth, with our mind
resting in the sky, no different from the sky, we encounter the vastness
of heaven joined with the primordial depth of earth—how they actually
come together in our own being. This state serves as the basis for our
activity in the world.
All Shambhala Training programs must be done in sequence. Student/Senior/Hardship Discounts are available for all Shambhala Training programs; contact the program coordinator for details. For more information, please contact the Shambhala Training Coordinator, Ann, by e-mail at annp29 (at) yahoo.com
Additional information about Shambhala Training and descriptions of
programs beyond Level V may be found at http://sti.shambhala.org/
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