| Welcome Welcome to Pioneer Valley Shambhala Meditation Center.
Our center is part of an international community of urban meditation and rural retreat centers founded by Chögyam Trungpa Rinpoche, and directed by his son and spiritual heir, Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche. Our center offers public meditation, a core curriculum of Buddhist and Shambhala teachings, as well as training in advanced contemplative practices. We invite you to explore our diverse programs designed to help people of all traditions discover their inherent sanity, gentleness and humor.
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Ongoing Public Meditation
Free & Open to All
Monthly Open House on Sundays:
July 12; August 2; September 6; October 4
10am - 12pm
Open House begins at 10am with meditation instruction and practice (sitting & walking meditation) followed by a Dharma talk at 11:00 and refreshments and socializing at noon.
Join us for all or part of the morning.
Evening Meditation Practice
TUES & THURS 6pm - 7pm
Sitting & walking meditation, followed by closing chants.
Sunday Morning Nyinthun
9am - 12pm
(preemeted once per month by Open House)
Nyinthun begins with a 15-minute set of traditional group chants, followed by alternating sitting and walking meditation periods, and a brief reading. Although best experienced in its entirety, participants are free to arrive and depart at any time.
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Featured Programs: Battle of Ego
Jun 30 / 7:00 PM - Jul 28 / 8:30 PM "What is the nature of our minds and our relationship to the world? This course is an investigation of how we relate to the world and to ourselves. Perhaps there is a genuine, sane way to live. It is an exploration of a Buddhist approach to life."
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Mid-summer mini-retreat
Jul 18 / 10:00 AM - Jul 19 / 2:00 PM Please join us at the PVSC for special, live online talks and live Q&A with Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche and Pema Chodron. more info
Level II Shambhala Training: Birth of the Warrior
Jul 24 / 7:00 PM - Jul 26 / 5:00 PM Having experienced a taste of basic goodness, we want to go forward. Meditation practice allows us to observe how we create a cocoon of habits to mask our fear. We begin to appreciate that there is no fundamental obstacle to experiencing basic goodness.
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