The following talks and courses are offered to anyone. If you find them of benefit and would like to make a teacher’s gift, you are welcome to do so here.
Taking Your Posture and Tasting Your Heart
A simple approach to confusion and challenge is to take a good posture and tune into our soft spot. This talk was hosted online by the New York Shambhala Center on May 11, 2021.
Bone of Existence: Path of a Lonely Buddha
Four talks on the 12 links of the Wheel of Life—the essential teaching on karmic cause and result. This course was hosted online by the Boston Shambhala Center weekly from April 13 to May 4, 2021.
Grandmother’s Soup: The Charnel Ground of Birth, Life, and Death
Charnel ground has wisdom and craziness at the same time. Grandmother’s soup is brewed on New Year’s Eve in Tibet—sweet and sour, bones, fats and vegetables—everything put together. This is our mind and life.
Hosted online by the Atlanta Shambhala Center, February 3, 2021.
Fresh Start
Dön Season talk on the instructions of fresh start and further touch in meditation and everyday life. Hosted by Karmê Chöling, Feb 2, 2021.
Renunciation, Patience, Wisdom
A talk on the 3 yana path of Shambhala hosted by the Durham Shambhala Center on December 13, 2020.
Mindfulness of Breathing: The Life and Death of Breath
This talk was hosted by the Atlanta Shambhala Center on November 17, 2020.
Trusting the Path of Nontheism
This talk was given online for the Boston Shambhala Center on Friday, October 16th, 2020.
Wasting Our Time: Vipashyana
This 5 talk series was hosted online by the Atlanta Shambhala Center online on October 2, 9, 16, 23, and 30, 2020.
Pandemic Panic, Grief, and Compassion
This talk was hosted by the Halifax Shambhala Center on May 14, 2020.
John Rockwell 