Shambhala Meditation Center of Columbus

"With space, we plant our words and decisions in clarity. Without it, when our words and decisions are rooted in an attempt to feel better/make others feel better/offload painful emotions, we add to the confusion."
Susan Piver On Shambhala

This week's study and practice focus on the third paramita: Patience.
With patience we can choose to respond with compassion, instead of reacting with rising emotions to a difficult situation or a person in our lives.
During his travels in Tibet, Atisha brought along a rude servant, who he considered a challenging person to be around:
“Without this man, there would be no one with whom I could practice patience. He is very kind to me. I need him!”

“If we want to learn about our future, we should look at what we’re doing now.”
― Pema Chödrön, Welcoming the Unwelcome: Wholehearted Living in a Brokenhearted World
https://columbus.shambhala.org/programs/

You’re invited to take this opportunity to start or to deepen your mindfulness practice. This in-person retreat will take place in a beautiful setting in Columbus, Ohio.

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‘We must be willing to be completely ordinary people, which means accepting ourselves as we are without trying to become greater, purer, more spiritual, more insightful. If we can accept our imperfections as they are, quite ordinarily, then we can use them as part of the path. But if we try to get rid of our imperfections, then they will be enemies, obstacles on the road to our ‘self-improvement’.

Chogyam Trungpa

Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche
(February 1940, Kahm, Tibet-April 4, 1987, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada)
“Are the great spiritual teachings really advocating that we fight evil because we are on the side of light, the side of peace? Are they telling us to fight against that other 'undesirable' side, the bad and the black. That is a big question. If there is wisdom in the sacred teachings, there should not be any war. As long as a person is involved with warfare, trying to defend or attack, then his action is not sacred; it is mundane, dualistic, a battlefield situation.”
― Chögyam Trungpa, Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism

New to meditation?

https://shambhala.org/event/755301-first-tuesday-learn-to-meditate/

Every morning we are born again. What we do today is what matters most.