Starting Tuesday, February 3, the Shambhala Meditation Centre is offering a course, The Hundred Thousand Songs of Milarepa, on the famous 11th century, Tibetan Buddhist yogi, Milarepa. The course is based on audio recordings of talks by Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche.

As part of the course, we will also be showing the movie Milarepa, Magician, Murderer, Saint on Wednesday February 17 at 8pm. You don’t have to be taking the course to come and watch the movie. Everyone is welcome!

These Milarepa teachings all lead up to Milarepa Day — a full day of practice celebrating the enlightenment and life example of Tibet’s most famous Buddhist practitioner.

If you live west of Toronto, you might like to visit the Shambhala Meditation Group of Mississauga. The group offers sitting meditation and free meditation instruction on Sundays at 10am, followed by tea and occasional talks, courses and videos.

Check out their video on YouTube!

The Halifax-based Alia Institute (formerly known as the Shambhala Institute) will be holding a four-day leadership program, Leading Profound Innovation, in Toronto this spring.

Led by Otto Scharmer, Jim Marsden, and senior Shambhala teacher Arawana Hayashi, the program focuses on presencing — a theoretical framework and practice for leaders introduced by Scharmer in his books Theory U: Leading from the Future as It Emerges (2007), and Presence: An Exploration of Profound Change in People, Organizations, and Society (2005).

The program will be held at the Kingbridge Centre, north of Toronto from April 5 to 8. For more information, visit the Alia Institute website.