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Practice and study go hand in hand. We hope that this website and our Center are useful in both deepening your practice and your understanding of the path.

The Berkeley Shambhala Meditation Center 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.

Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche will give a public talk entitled Creating Enlightened Society on Friday evening, March 2 at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco. For more information and to register for this event, click here.

The Sakyong will also teach the Rigden Weekend on March 3 and 4 at Craneway Pavilion in Richmond. (The Friday night talk is the first part of this weekend.} For pre-requisites, more information, and to register for the Rigden Weekend, click here.

Located at 2288 Fulton Street, Berkeley is one of the oldest Shambhala centers in the mandala. For over thirty years we have offered the ground of Shambhala Dharma to the Bay Area.

We offer a wide range of programs, classes, and ongoing practice. We feature free meditation instruction. open meditation practice on Monday, Wednesday and Friday nights, and an open house every Sunday morning. Books, practice supplies,

and meditation cushions are available.

For information on programs at other Shambhala Centers in the Northern California Region, including the Sakyong's upcoming visit, click here.

 

Upcoming Programs:

Contentment in Everyday Life (Way of Shambhala I, second in series of classes)
February 2nd - March 1st
Contentment can be hard to find. Much of the time we search for contentment in things, achievements or relationships. With meditation practice, we relax with ourselves and appreciate simple human experiences.
more info

Creating Enlightened Society: An Evening with Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco
March 2nd
On this rare visit to the Bay Area, Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche will present the vision of Shambhala. He will offer guided meditation on connecting with our fundamental dignity and using it as a force to shape the future of the world.
more info

Shambhala Training Level III Warrior in the World
March 16th - March 18th
Developing fearlessness by examining our habitual tendencies, we are willing to experience our life without relying on the cocoon. We begin to engage the world directly and extend the attitude of fearlessness to our activities.
more info

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Berkeley Shambhala Meditation Center
2288 Fulton St. Ste 202, Berkeley,  CA 94704
Tel. (510) 841-3242   shambhalaberkeley@gmail.com

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