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Thursday Eve Pema DVDsThursdays to August 26 Pema Chödrön: A Personal Journey
July 29
Pema shares her path as a practitioner, monastic, teacher, leader and woman. She relates the challenge of being a Buddhist monastic in a secular world, the early years of Gampo Abbey, and her full ordination as a bhikshuni nun. Loving Oneself and Others: Tonglen
August 5, 12, 19 & 26
Spiritual traditions teach that the times of greatest adversity present the greatest opportunity for awakening, yet we know how difficult this is and how we can easily grow more fearful and self-absorbed. Pema will introduce tonglen, a practice to open the heart to painful, difficult situations, both to transform one's own experience and to bring the possibility of relief to the situation.
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Welcome to the Shambhala Center of Chicago!
The Shambhala Meditation Center of Chicago is part of an international community of urban meditation and rural retreat centers founded by Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, and currently headed by Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche.
Located on the corner of Sherwin and Sheridan Road in Rogers Park, the Chicago Center has served the Chicagoland area for over 30 years, offering meditation instruction, public meditation practice, weekend retreats and classes exploring the budhadharma, the contemplative arts and how to apply meditation in everyday life.
There is open meditation with free meditation instruction available at 7:00PM every Tuesday evening, from 9:00AM until noon on Sunday mornings and at 6:30PM on Sunday evening.
Our book store sells books, practice supplies, and meditation cushions.
Practice and study go hand in hand. Please feel free to use this website and our center to deepen your practice and your understanding of the path of meditation.
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Upcoming Programs: Summer Meditation Retreat sponsored by Queer Dharma
August 13th - August 20th Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgendered, Intersex, Straight or Persons-Beyond-Category: Join us for an opportunity to deepen your individual meditation practice for a week or a weekend at the Windhorse Midwest Retreat Center one hour north of Milwaukee. more info
Sit for Shambhala Sit-a-thon
September 5th Chicago is participating in the first-ever International Shambhala Sit-a-thon! Sit for Shambhala will raise money for the development and support of our new core curriculum, "The Way of Shambhala", and for improving the accessibility of the center. more info
Level I: The Art of Being Human
September 11th - September 12th Through the practice of meditation, we glimpse unconditional goodness as the ground of our existence. Opening ourselves with gentleness and appreciation, we begin to see our potential as genuine, compassionate human beings more info
Meditation in Everyday Life
September 23rd - October 21st Learn about peaceful abiding meditation, basic goodness, and how meditation practice can improve the quality of our daily life. By deepening our experience and understanding of ourselves through meditation, we can more fully become who we are. more info
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