Public Program and Meditation Schedule

Free meditation instruction is available at these times:

Sundays -- public sitting	9:00 am - noon
Wednesdays -- public sitting	7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Thursdays -- Intro Programs	7:30 pm - 9:30 pm
Family Sunday -- childcare provided the first Sunday each month.	9:00 am - noon
Heart of Recovery -- Buddhism & the 12 Steps Second and Last Wednesday of the month.	7:30pm - 9:30pm
Sitting on the Westside -- every Sunday	4:00pm - 6:00pm
Sitting in OC* -- every Thursday 4809 River Avenue, Newport Beach 92663	7:30pm - 9:30pm

* The OC location is a private residence. Please ring doorbell when you arrive. Feel free to email Paul Kelway if you have any questions.

Family Sunday (first Sunday of each month)

Every first Sunday of the month between 10:00 - 12:00 noon families can drop in to meditate. Children can participate in the free child care offered. If you have any questions about Family Sunday please call Laura Burnham at (626) 357-9041 or send her an email at lauraburnham@uia.net.

April 4

The Heart of Recovery Meditation Group

The Heart of Recovery is a meditation and sharing support group bringing together Buddhist meditation practice and the Twelve Steps with the goal of integrating the basic goodness of meditation with our commitment to abstinence. The Group meets every second and last Wednesday of the month from 7:30 PM to 9:00 PM.

UPCOMING MEETINGS:

Wednesday March 31
Wednesday April 14
Wednesday April 28

Westside Sitting

The Westside Shambhala Meditation Group, located in West Los Angeles, offers practice and study in the lineage of Shambhala Buddhism.

Shambhala Center Open House

The Last Sunday of Every Month, 11:00 a.m.

Please join us on the last Sunday of every month for an introduction to the Shambhala Center of Los Angeles. Come and learn about the variety of programs and opportunities for practice offered here, and individual meditation instruction is available free of charge. Open House includes an introductory talk and informal reception with refreshments, hosted by senior students of the Vidyadhara Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche and Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche.

This event is a proclamation of open house. Those who want to practice are invited to take part in meditation, to go through the pain, go through the bliss, whatever you experience. Creating an open house situation is a gesture proclaiming that our aim and object are not related with dogma but on trying to encompass all areas of openness. That knowledge can be found throughout the teachings of Tibetan Buddhism or Buddhism in general -- Sanskrit Buddhism, Pali Buddhism, or other schools of Buddhism. Since it is known that all dharmas are marked with emptiness, therefore all dharma is marked with openness, at the same time. There is tremendous room to work with chaos or confusion.
Excerpts from "The Ultimate Truth Is Fearless" by Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche delivered at the Opening Ceremony of the Karma Dzong Meditation Center, Boulder, Colorado, 25 February 1972. All material copyright by Diana J. Mukpo and used by permission.

UPCOMING OPEN HOUSES:

March 28
April 25
May 30

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