Special Guest Speaker Sarah Coleman
Love and Relationship are the Seed of Enlightened Society.
How can Meditation Help?
Sunday, July 10, 2022, 10:00 AM – Noon ET (Via Zoom)
Open to all. Registration required.
“Society begins with two people, a relationship”— and how we act in a relationship actually determines how our society manifests. If we want our society to be healthy, we have to learn to conduct sane relationships, ones based on openness and trust.
But what is a sane relationship really? We've been disappointed by relationships, we're longing for the perfect relationship, we're struggling to keep our present relationship from falling apart... but sanity? According to Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, “The idea of relationship needs to fall apart.”
To understand sanity, we first have to sit down and meditate and look at ourselves honestly: look at our personal myths of relationship, our roller-coaster ride of hopes and fears of finding happiness, the perfect love, and never having to be alone again. And we have to look honestly at what that approach has brought us in the past. Only then can we discuss what we might be able to do differently.
This talk will be based on teachings from the Vidyadhara Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche and from the paramita tradition of Mahayana Buddhism.
Sarah Coleman is a senior teacher in the Vajradhatu/Shambhala mandala. She has been a student of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche since 1972 and served as Trungpa Rinpoche's editor for many years. Her main credentials for giving this talk are her history of many relationships, and a rich personal knowledge of the multitude of mistakes it is possible to make! Choosing a life as a professional dharma bum, Sarah has been teaching Buddhism and Shambhala Training for almost 40 years. Since 1996, she has been living and teaching in Europe, and is currently residing in Barcelona.
Love and Relationship are the Seed of Enlightened Society.
How can Meditation Help?
Sunday, July 10, 2022, 10:00 AM – Noon ET (Via Zoom)
Open to all. Registration required.
“Society begins with two people, a relationship”— and how we act in a relationship actually determines how our society manifests. If we want our society to be healthy, we have to learn to conduct sane relationships, ones based on openness and trust.
But what is a sane relationship really? We've been disappointed by relationships, we're longing for the perfect relationship, we're struggling to keep our present relationship from falling apart... but sanity? According to Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, “The idea of relationship needs to fall apart.”
To understand sanity, we first have to sit down and meditate and look at ourselves honestly: look at our personal myths of relationship, our roller-coaster ride of hopes and fears of finding happiness, the perfect love, and never having to be alone again. And we have to look honestly at what that approach has brought us in the past. Only then can we discuss what we might be able to do differently.
This talk will be based on teachings from the Vidyadhara Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche and from the paramita tradition of Mahayana Buddhism.
Sarah Coleman is a senior teacher in the Vajradhatu/Shambhala mandala. She has been a student of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche since 1972 and served as Trungpa Rinpoche's editor for many years. Her main credentials for giving this talk are her history of many relationships, and a rich personal knowledge of the multitude of mistakes it is possible to make! Choosing a life as a professional dharma bum, Sarah has been teaching Buddhism and Shambhala Training for almost 40 years. Since 1996, she has been living and teaching in Europe, and is currently residing in Barcelona.
Love and Relationship are the Seed of Enlightened Society.
How can Meditation Help?
Sunday, July 10, 2022, 10:00 AM – Noon ET (Via Zoom)
Open to all. Registration required.
“Society begins with two people, a relationship”— and how we act in a relationship actually determines how our society manifests. If we want our society to be healthy, we have to learn to conduct sane relationships, ones based on openness and trust.
But what is a sane relationship really? We've been disappointed by relationships, we're longing for the perfect relationship, we're struggling to keep our present relationship from falling apart... but sanity? According to Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, “The idea of relationship needs to fall apart.”
To understand sanity, we first have to sit down and meditate and look at ourselves honestly: look at our personal myths of relationship, our roller-coaster ride of hopes and fears of finding happiness, the perfect love, and never having to be alone again. And we have to look honestly at what that approach has brought us in the past. Only then can we discuss what we might be able to do differently.
This talk will be based on teachings from the Vidyadhara Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche and from the paramita tradition of Mahayana Buddhism.
Sarah Coleman is a senior teacher in the Vajradhatu/Shambhala mandala. She has been a student of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche since 1972 and served as Trungpa Rinpoche's editor for many years. Her main credentials for giving this talk are her history of many relationships, and a rich personal knowledge of the multitude of mistakes it is possible to make! Choosing a life as a professional dharma bum, Sarah has been teaching Buddhism and Shambhala Training for almost 40 years. Since 1996, she has been living and teaching in Europe, and is currently residing in Barcelona.