How I Healed a Broken Heart

December 2, 2017

By Patricia Flores White // Do you remember the first time you arrived at Shambhala Mountain Center? I do. It…

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Spread-your-wings, oh beautiful Jaybird!

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January 9, 2017

Photo: © 2016 Richard A. Swaback   Spread-your-wings, oh beautiful Jaybird!           Placing seed outside…

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Offering

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September 30, 2016

Hello world, I wrote this poem last fall as a rumination on death and life, impermanence and transition. Now…

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Your Virtual Guide to the Perimeter Trail

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September 9, 2016

There is something undeniably magical about the land at Shambhala Mountain Center. Literally and figuratively, it is the heart and…

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Compassion for Cats

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July 20, 2016

There are few things more adorable than a two-week old kitten — and Shambhala Mountain Center’s director Michael Gayner…

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A Weekend in Space

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June 9, 2016

Last summer I had the pleasure of participating in SMC’s Contemplative Astronomy program: Big Sky, Big Mind, led by astronomer…

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water writing: homage

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May 25, 2016

By Katharine Kaufman Shibata Sensei is so old that it takes two people to prop him upright. Yoshiko holds…

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Celebrating the Garden Project

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May 4, 2016

We spent this past snowy May Day morning celebrating an incredible act of generosity that has made a real…

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Home of the Greens

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March 31, 2016

If you’ve visited SMC in the past 6 months, you may have noticed a new structure on the land…

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The Mountain Chicks

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March 9, 2016

I love eggs. Has anyone ever asked you that cliché question: if you were stranded on an island and…

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Watch: Chapman University at SMC

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March 2, 2016

This January, a group of students from Chapman University, a liberal arts school in southern California, visited Shambhala Mountain…

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