Winnipeg Shambhala Meditation Group

12/10/2021

Set yourself up to succeed by creating a mindfulness practice as part of your overall health and wellbeing regimen

09/06/2021

Listening to a talk today from Acharya Richard John on beginners mind “ Cutting thoughts”. We need to always cultivate beginners mind and train ourselves to start over, fresh, especially when we think we know it all and want to hold on “I had beginners mind once”. How I heard it. ☺️🌞

09/03/2021

I read that “The goal of the path is complete liberation from all conditioning”, in Tenzin Wangyal Rinpoche’s The Tibetan Yogas of Dream and Sleep. A good reminder. 🧘‍♀️🧘🏽‍♂️🧘

08/23/2021

I was reading this morning a very helpful Tricycle article by Judith Simmer-Brown on insomnia:
“Mounting anxiety about all the things left undone, and my body tenses up, my shoulders big round fists. And then everything releases and relaxes, back into the ambiguity. Within the intensity of my thoughts and emotions I discover the non-intensity of my mind, the vast and spacious qualities which pervade all my suffering. The anxiety dissipates. No amount of effort would have lessened the anxiety, and waiting for anxiety to wear out takes hours.”

08/11/2021

It takes a long time to develop the behaviour and habits of mind that contribute to our problems. It takes an equally long time to develop the new habits that bring happiness. - Dalai Lama, The Art of Happiness

04/03/2021

01/30/2021

His Holiness the Dalai Lama will engage in a conversation on The Crisis of Climate Feedback Loops with Greta Thunberg (environmental activist), William Mooma...

11/18/2020