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Learn more on our Open House page.

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Learn more on our Open House page.

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Learn more on our Open House page.

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Learn more on our Open House page.

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Learn more on our Open House page.

Tonight, for the second time in as many weeks, Acharya Allyn Lyon drew a large crowd to the Kootenay Shambhala Centre’s Monday Open House. In her talk, titled “Shambhala: A Buddhist Shamanic Journey for Modern Times,” she spoke about a path of working with the energies of the world to restore balance in an age of rampant materialism. Click on the icon below to listen to her talk.

Listen/Download “Shambhala: A Buddhist Shamanic Journey for Modern Times,” with Acharya Allyn Lyon (MP3: 53 MB; 58 min)

ALLYN LYON was appointed an acharya in 2000, after several years serving as Director of Shambhala Mountain Center and in other Shambhala administrative positions. Since then she has been traveling and teaching while creating a home base in Tepotzlan, Mexico, where she is the resident acharya. Her main interest in teaching dharma is the nature of mind and how it functions: “What is mind? How does practice work with mind? What is real?” But if there’s a bottom line, Allyn says, “it’s that I really enjoy practicing the dharma, teaching and sharing my love of the dharma with students.” For more about Acharya Lyon, click here.

Visiting senior teacher Acharya Allyn Lyon gave tonight’s Open House talk, speaking about reasons one might choose to meditate (to develop peace, to explore the nature of mind, or to discover the world’s richness, for instance) and generally entertaining the large audience with her characteristic earthiness and humour. Click on the icon below to listen to her talk.

Listen/Download “Why Meditate?” with Acharya Allyn Lyon (MP3: 39.4 MB; 43 min)

ALLYN LYON was appointed an acharya in 2000, after several years serving as Director of Shambhala Mountain Center and in other Shambhala administrative positions. Since then she has been traveling and teaching while creating a home base in Tepotzlan, Mexico, where she is the resident acharya. Her main interest in teaching dharma is the nature of mind and how it functions: “What is mind? How does practice work with mind? What is real?” But if there’s a bottom line, Allyn says, “it’s that I really enjoy practicing the dharma, teaching and sharing my love of the dharma with students.” For more about Acharya Lyon, click here.

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Heads-up: Our November Open House program includes a talk by special guest Acharya Allyn Lyon―Shambhala: A Buddhist Shamanic Journey for Modern Times―and a four-part series on the ever-popular topic Working with Emotions, with David Marshall.

We plan to add a selection of audio recordings of these talks to our Audio Library.

Learn more on our Open House page.

At last night’s Open House, in the lead-up to the introduction of our new core curriculum (starting with Shambhala Training Level I in less than two weeks), Sally Albert spoke about the nature, origin and purpose of the Shambhala teachings, and about the changes that the new curriculum will bring to the presentation of these teachings. Click on the icon below to listen to her talk.

Listen/Download “The Way of Shambhala: Path of the Warrior,” with Sally Albert (MP3: 33.3 MB; 36 min)

SALLY ALBERT has been a student of Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche and Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche for about 30 years. She serves at the Kootenay Shambhala Centre as a meditation instructor and teacher and the Shambhala Training Resident Director. She enjoys living on rural land, growing a garden and relating to her lovely grandchildren.

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Save the dates! Acharya Allyn Lyon is set to give Open House talks on Mondays, October 26th and November 2nd.

Learn more on our Open House page.