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The San Francisco Shambhala Meditation Center is part of an international community of urban meditation and rural retreat centers founded in 1973 by Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, a Tibetan Buddhist meditation master, artist, author, and poet.

Meditators

Our center, located in San Francisco's Sunset district, is one of twelve affiliated Shambhala Meditation Centers and Groups organized as Northern California Shambhala. We offer free public meditation, a core curriculum of Buddhist and Shambhala teachings, as well as training in advanced contemplative practices. You are invited to explore our diverse programs designed to help San Franciscans of all traditions discover their inherent sanity, gentleness and humor. [ more ]

Upcoming Programs:

Kado: The Path of Flowers
Aug 22 / 7:30 PM - Aug 22 / 9:30 PM
Japanese flower arranging, also called Kado or Ikebana, can be practiced as a contemplative art. Under the guidance of Marcia Shibata, students learn to create flower arrangements, and experience Kado as a creative and meditative dance.
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Shambhala Training Level II: Birth of the Warrior
Aug 29 / 7:30 PM - Aug 29 / 9:30 PM
Cultivating the willingness to observe our cocoon of habitual fear and defense mechanisms.
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The Nature of Healing and the Practice of Meditation Series - The Alchemy of Transmutation
Sep 4 / 7:00 PM - Sep 4 / 9:00 PM
The San Francisco Shambhala Center presents a three-month long study on healing and the practice of meditation.
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Shambhala Training: Great Eastern Sun
Sep 6 / 8:30 AM - Sep 6 / 6:30 PM
This weekend program teaches how to see the Great Eastern Sun, the primordial energy and brilliance that is the basis of all that exists; an introduction to membership in Shambhala - a living context for building a sane society.
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Upaya Council
Sep 8 / 7:00 PM - Sep 8 / 9:00 PM
The Upaya Council is responsible for the operation of the San Francisco Shambhala Center. The meeting is open to all members.
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The Nature of Healing and the Practice of Meditation Series - Meditation and the Path of Recovery from Extreme States of Mind, Alcoholism, and Drug Addiction
Sep 11 / 7:00 PM - Sep 11 / 9:00 PM
The San Francisco Shambhala Center presents a three-month long study on healing and the practice of meditation.
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The Nature of Healing and the Practice of Meditation Series - Disintegration and Integration
Sep 14 / 1:00 PM - Sep 14 / 2:30 PM
The San Francisco Shambhala Center presents a three-month long study on healing and the practice of meditation.
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Compassionate Leadership (Berkeley)
Sep 18 / 7:00 PM - Sep 18 / 9:00 PM
The escalating conflicts and crises in the world today offer the choice of continuing violence, or of finding a way forward for society and our planet. Never have we needed more capable leadership than we do now, and no generation will be more affected by
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Sit Ubu Sit
Learn to Meditate

At the San Francisco Shambhala Center, we practice and teach mindfulness- awareness meditation, as it has been passed from teacher to student for 2500 years. We also offer meditation instruction free of charge.

Meditation instruction is offered at the beginning of Open House on Sunday mornings, and on Tuesday and Wednesday evenings.

To take this posture is itself to have the right state of mind. There is no need to obtain some special state of mind. —Suzuki Roshi

    

Center News

Shambhala Art Gallery
Jour et Nuit: Selected Photographs 2002-2008
by Carl Castro
July 1 - August 31

Newsletter: July/August

A Picture of The Karmapa by Seth Bregman

Bhutan in Black and White by Robert Handelman

Transcending Chatter by Randy Robinett

Hair by Rich Mertes

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Shambhala News Service

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Shambhala Peace
Day and Speech Empowerment of the Great Stupa, Sunday, July 20, 2008

Teaching Tour by Socially Engaged Buddhist Venerable Gyetrul Jigme Rinpoche

Phowa Retreats with His Eminence, Terton Namkha Drimed Rinpoche

MySpace Profile: Chögyam Trungpa
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Shambhala Voices for Diversity
Aspirations, Reports, Training, Scholarships,
and Resources

Chronicle Project
A library and a celebration of the life of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche.

Recollections, insight, and observations

Chronicles Radio

Acharya Speigel: Great Eastern Sun and Cocoon [mp3]




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San Francisco Shambhala Meditation Center
1630 Taraval Street, San Francisco, CA 94116
Tel. 415-731-4426    Email: sf@shambhala.org

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