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Welcome to the Juneau Shambhala Center on-line!Located upstairs in the Emporium Mall in downtown Juneau, Alaska, the Shambhala Center offers a place for the practitioner to meditate, take classes, meet with teachers, participate in Shambhala training levels, and be part of the international Shambhala tradition. For more information read the FAQs.(No longer available)
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Milarepa Day
Sunday February 28
This day celebrates the enlightenment and life example of Milarepa. The celebration is an all day guru yoga practice, which includes chanting the Milarepa sadhana and reading the songs of the lineage fathers in The Rain of Wisdom. Most people in Juneau are unfamiliar with this type of lengthy Vajrayana Buddhist practice but those who have done it before found it very inspiring and profound. It is encouraged that people make an effort to stay for the whole program if possible, but you are certainly welcome to come for any portion of the day as long as you enter or depart at the scheduled break times of 11 am, 1 pm, 4:30 pm, or 6 pm.
Most of the day will be spent reading aloud from the Rain of Wisdom. If you have a copy of this text, please bring it, or consider loaning it to us if you cannot attend, because it is out of print and we have only a few copies. This very sacred book is a collection of "vajra songs" or "dohas" which are the direct personal expressions of the spiritual journeys and realizations of our ancestors, the Kagyu lineage holders. In chanting them, we attune our minds to theirs, invoking the inspiration of their sanity and devotion.
The practice will begin at 9 am on Sunday the 28th and will conclude before 9 pm. possibly as early as 7. We will conclude with a Guru Yoga Feast.
Everyone who is interested is welcome to attend. The normal Sunday sitting will be held at the Yoga Den at 4:30.
Contact Susan Chapman (schapman@ptialaska.net or 586-6150) for further information.
Sitting Schedule
- Monday -- 12:10 - 12:50 pm -- 5:30 – 6:30 pm
- Tuesday -- 12:10 – 12:50 pm
- Wednesday -- 12:10 – 12:50 pm
- Thursday -- 12:10 – 12:50 pm -- 5:30 – 6:30 pm
- Sunday -- 4:30 – 5:30 pm
- First Sunday of month -- 10:00 – 1:00, 2:30 – 5:30
New and experienced meditators are welcome.
if you would like meditation instruction (no charge) contact:
Kay Greenough 586-5766
Nancy Simpson 789-1564
Marian Christensen 789-4265
Liz Dodd 463-2601
or come to the Sunday afternoon sitting at 4:30 .
Upcoming Shambhala Weekend Programs
Shambhala Publications online catalogue gives you the opportunity to select and browse through their 1995 and 1996 books in print. You can search for a specific title, for books by an author, or for books in a specific subject area. A selection of their selection of audio tapes is also online.
Other Shambhala Sites to visit: