Shambhala is an international Buddhist organization in crisis. There have been numerous allegations against the organization's leader and head teacher, Sakyong Mipham and allegations that the organization's leadership endeavored to cover up a culture of sexual violence and secrecy.In the context of serious financial uncertainty, the future of the West's largest international Buddhist organization hangs in the unknown.

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This may include personal attacks, the posting of tropes common to abuse denial, so-called 'gaslighting' in which others are called to question the validity and reality of their own experiences of abuse, and more. Most critically: this sub will not host any discussion in which the details of individual accounts of abuse and misconduct are picked apart. Please note this includes doing so in a way that is meant to be supporting or affirming.No ad-homimen or other forms of personal attack - always try to refer to other poster's words only. Consider it a form of practice, if you like.This sub is still a place to connect with sangha and to discuss dharma and practice. Anyone is welcome and encouraged to contact the mods about hosting the weekly practice thread.Documentation and Reports:.Shambhala Leadership Responses:.Public and Former Member Responses:.Links:.Is Shambhala A Cult?. Interesting front-page article in the NYT today, about sexual molestation by clergy in Evangelical Baptist churches. They say 'nearly 400' S.

Baptist leaders have been convicted or pled guilty in the past 20 years.​I was struck by the similar language to that of people in Shambhala. Also, similar excessive trust and admiration of leaders. I suppose that's hard to avoid in spiritual groups where people struggle with the meaning of faith or devotion. But especially interesting, and perhaps a sign of the times: S.

Baptist evangelical churches often use a membership contract that bans lawsuits. It's not membership so much as a corporate contract.

And many hire a company called MinistrySafe, which gives the appearance of providing 'pro-active' training to prevent abuse but is essentially a legal service for church leadership. It raises fundamental questions about what spiruality is and what churches are.In the same paper, David Brooks has a column (I couldn't find a link) about an increase in non-mainstream spiritual dabbling that he sees reflecting uncertain times. More young people believe in astrology. More take part in witchcraft. And of course there's the mindfulness fad. Software antrian berbasis web.

A thoughtful piece. I suppose we need to define what we mean by 'mindfulness' and 'fad'. I would ask, how is mindfulness not a perspective?Again, as I see it, 'mindfulness' is a way of viewing or seeing reality, a perspective.

It is a way of focusing perspective. It is a way of seeing what you are doing.eating, walking, reacting, interacting etc. It encourages the practitioner to carefully view what they are doing, and what that action causes to self, environment and others. For me a 'fad' is something fleeting, vacuous, perhaps colorful, and without significant meaning or lasting effect.Webster's online defines' fad' as 'a practice or interest followed for a time with exaggerated zeal.' It defines 'perspective' as a 'mental view or prospect.'

How do you define these words, and how do you see 'mindfulness in that context?. Again, as I see it, 'mindfulness' is a way of viewing or seeing reality, a perspective.It's a practice of paying attention with focus. I think it's important to also differentiate it from awareness. Awareness is non-dual awake.

Mindfulness is practicing not spacing out, by focusing on perceptions/thoughts in the current mindstream. Like vipashyana and shamatha. It's very much central to Buddhist practice. It has nothing to do with conceptualizing about the results of one's actions. But maybe we need to clarify the difference between Buddhist mindfulness, as part of practice, and the mindfulness that's 'going around'. You may be talking about the latter.A 'perspective' is a point of view. So you seem to be conflating analysis, point of view, and attentiveness.

Maybe that's one version of popular mindfulness practices but it's not Buddhist mindfulness practice.The current mindfulness fad is very much a fad, like yoga, anti-gluten, or zoomba. It's not that those things are inherently dumb. But people are doing them because everyone else is doing them, generally without any understanding. (As Jimmy Kimmel demonstrated in one of his humorous interview videos, most anti-gluten people don't even know what gluten is.)One of the marks of these fads is that they often come with rituals to make them official: People don't just jog. They wear special gear. They buy books.

They have apps to count steps. People don't just do yoga. They do it wearing Lululemon, drinking herbal tea, and cultivating behavior that suggests equanimity. People don't just ride a bicycle. They do it with rearview mirrors and spandex suits that make them look like skinny bumblebees.

The trappings of officiality. Those activities are all perfectly fine things to do, but most of the people doing them are doing them simply because everyone else is. A fad.Similarly, an industry of officiality has grown up around mindfulness, and even meditation. Tapes, classes, phone apps; PBS is running special programs now to teach you mindfulness. It's so faddish that it may even be close to running its course.

When ads on TV start offering a free mindfulness book if you buy a food processor ('in 4 easy payments!' ) then you'll know that only losers are still doing mindfulness and winners have moved on to something more relevant, with some kind of new, official name, like maybe 'radical zen investment strategy'.:)I saw a neuroscientist on TV last week who studies sleep. He said meditation seems to be so good for sleep that he started doing it himself.

He gave no description and offered no differentiation. For him it was just 'meditation'. That good stuff fad that's going around. Maybe he visualizes a garden. Maybe he chants OM. He doesn't understand what he's doing so it doesn't matter to him.

It's a materialistic, consumeristic approach: Meditation and mindfulness are good stuff that one can buy and collect. A fad.The Gurdjieff people talked about 'self remembering'. There's an interesting piece here:Gurdjieff uses different language, but I thought it was interesting because he touches on mindfulness vs awareness. He also touches on the experience that all meditators have once they get going: The recognition that we're almost never present, much less awake. Thus the usefulness of mindfulness practice.

Traditional teachings often talk about that. A typical question in books is something like, 'My mind seems to be getting worse since I started meditating'. The teacher then explains it with an analogy, like having a picnic next to a highway. Meditation makes you notice the highway noise that you never realized was there. In other words, you've created an observing function that can see the discursive thought that you formerly believed to be consciousness. Mindfulness is a way to train the mind to get into the habit of coming back, and a way to get it to stick around for at least a few seconds when it does. You pay attention to the picnic and the highway, rather than scanning for pleasure.

Ah, language. After reading some of your other reddit comments, I have a better understanding of where you live; what is your vantage point. I see you are a thoughtful, incisive, and, it seems to me, conservative Buddhist. I hear a disdain for and belittling of the modern Western mindfulness movement, perhaps because it was co-opted and derives from a more conventional Asian Buddhism. It seems you see the mindfulness movement as more or less a dead end. It does not lead to a path of enlightenment, as would traditional Buddhist mindfulness, so it is a fad, and effectively worthless as regards a true understanding of existence.

I can respect that point of view, although mine is different.I am grateful that mindfulness practices have made their way West, and have morphed along the way to be understandable and usable by Western minds. I know you do not see the betterment and satisfaction of individual lives to be the point of mindfulness, but I have seen peoples lives and relationships improve, and their overall connections to life and each other improve with the sincere practice of mindfulness, and with what you may consider unvetted and fuzzy minded practices derived from Eastern religions.Perhaps these Westerners who employ these practices entertain consciousness in a way you do not. Perhaps they glimpse understandings you do not.

Dead End Shambhala Rar Files 2016

Perhaps these folks are not as materialistic and consumer oriented as you believe; at least no more than the consumer driven Buddhist market, with its incense, cushions, statues, robes and the like.I have been genuinely agnostic, with a footing in and respect for the scientific method most of my life. I decided to learn meditation after a Harvard study came out demonstrating actual changes in the physical brain with a regular mindfulness meditation practice of only 4 months. Shambhala was the closest place to offer instruction in meditation.

Learning how to meditate has profoundly changed my perspective. I was introduced to Buddhist philosophy. I now entertain possibilities I hadn't prior, and have permitted myself to go where Western science has not tread, or at least where Western science has not forged a well traveled path.I have found it of interest that Buddhist philosophy seems to have intersections and seeming overlap with quantum theory. In meditation, and in contemplation, informed by my new understanding of some Buddhist concepts I have found a place where I feel at home.

It provides me a ground to see the familair in new ways.I will say that much of how you describe meditation conforms to my understanding: that is training the mind to come back; that you pay attention to the now and what you experience in the now. I also see how traditional Buddhism offers a system of ethics, which is not part and parcel of Western mindfulness.Now, I may be speaking Greek and you Swahili, but, my sincerity, inquiry and perception of what is, are as valuable to me, as yours are to you.Peace.