The Transition Team has officially honored our request and opened the Interim Board to those vital lineage figures we fought to include. Seeing these respected teachers back at the table brings me a sense of peace I haven't felt in years. We finally have a path toward healing our community …
November 11, 2018
Final supporters
Dear Shambhala Transition Team, Kalapa Council, and Community Friends,
We want to thank you for bravely stepping forward to help guide the community through this heart-breaking and critical transition.
As Shambhala practitioners, loyal to the Shambhala vision and sangha, we ask you to use this difficult time, when wounds are raw, to take concrete steps to re-unite our long divided-Shambhala community. To that end, we ask you to include on the Interim Board a meaningful and representative number of venerable and respected leaders who have maintained their ties and devotion to the Kagyu and Nyingma lineages – people like the Dorje Loppon, Judy Lief, Larry Mermelstein, and other excellent teachers. This would go far in mending the division in the sangha that Shambhala can simply not afford right now if it is to survive, heal and thrive again.
For us, the heartbreak started many years ago when ties to the Kagyu and Nyingma lineages – our roots and heritage from the Vidyadhara – were abandoned. Since that time, we have seen our sangha grievously divided.
We feel it is essential to address not only the painful issues of the last month, but also this deep pain many of us have felt for a long time. Neither old nor fresh wounds can be fixed overnight. But a firm resolve to embrace our wider Shambhala community, to be fully inclusive, and to use this critical moment to broaden the Interim Board to reflect that aspiration would greatly help bring us all back together.
Updates
Reached 500 supporters
August 15, 2018
August 15, 2018
Watching our numbers climb toward five hundred reminds me how many of us still carry the hurt from losing our true roots. Please send this link to others who remember the lineage teachings and want to see our community whole again.
August 14, 2018
Seeing this level of support confirms that so many of us are aching to return to our roots and heal the divide in our community. These names prove that we are not alone in wanting to bring our respected teachers back to the center of our sangha life.
Reached 100 supporters
August 13, 2018
283 Comments
I couldn't agree more with this petition. It is to the Kagyu lineage and the Vidyadhara that I--like many others-- am devoted. I don't want to dismiss some of the teachings the Sakyong has created, but they'd be so much richer if they were joined to the Kagyu and Nyingma lineages.
I fully endorse the petition to include Dorje Loppon, Judy Lief and Larry Mermelstein and/or other senior teachers on the Interim Board. Indeed, unity is strength but divide and conquer strategies often result in long-term failure.
Our roots and stem are the Nyingma and Kagyu teachings from Marpa and Milarepa and onwards to CTR. This tree’s flowers and fruits are the Shambhala teachings and they complement the basis. Nothing can be left out.
Acknowledge what the name Karme Choling means...Practice place of the Karma Kagyu or remove the name. I sunk my dharmic baby teeth at KCL, it breaks my heart as a practitioner of our Kagyu-Nyingma path to not feel welcome.
Having been on staff at Shambhala Mountain Center when the Rigden Ngondro was first introduced, I immediately felt a schism develop in my heart and in the community around me. This is a ripe time to reintegrate these amputated appendages!
Yes, it is sad that Reginald Ray has left to give one example.
This is a wonderful petition,however you are just preaching to the choir ,We need A Shambhala subjects Transition Team, perhaps to work with the team assembled by SMR,this could expand the Shambhala vision,including every one,both expats ,and in pats,SMR has always said "it's my way or the highway"now we could expand and say "we are the highway" think about this We are Shambhala,lets move forward together.I would like to nominate Dr Reginald Ray to the transition Team also Bakes Mitchell, Who would you like to nominate?
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The Transition Team has officially honored our request and opened the Interim Board to those vital lineage figures we fought to include. Seeing these respected teachers back at the table brings me a sense of peace I haven't felt in years. We finally have a path toward healing our community …
November 11, 2018
Final supporters
Dear Shambhala Transition Team, Kalapa Council, and Community Friends,
We want to thank you for bravely stepping forward to help guide the community through this heart-breaking and critical transition.
As Shambhala practitioners, loyal to the Shambhala vision and sangha, we ask you to use this difficult time, when wounds are raw, to take concrete steps to re-unite our long divided-Shambhala community. To that end, we ask you to include on the Interim Board a meaningful and representative number of venerable and respected leaders who have maintained their ties and devotion to the Kagyu and Nyingma lineages – people like the Dorje Loppon, Judy Lief, Larry Mermelstein, and other excellent teachers. This would go far in mending the division in the sangha that Shambhala can simply not afford right now if it is to survive, heal and thrive again.
For us, the heartbreak started many years ago when ties to the Kagyu and Nyingma lineages – our roots and heritage from the Vidyadhara – were abandoned. Since that time, we have seen our sangha grievously divided.
We feel it is essential to address not only the painful issues of the last month, but also this deep pain many of us have felt for a long time. Neither old nor fresh wounds can be fixed overnight. But a firm resolve to embrace our wider Shambhala community, to be fully inclusive, and to use this critical moment to broaden the Interim Board to reflect that aspiration would greatly help bring us all back together.
Updates
Reached 500 supporters
August 15, 2018
August 15, 2018
Watching our numbers climb toward five hundred reminds me how many of us still carry the hurt from losing our true roots. Please send this link to others who remember the lineage teachings and want to see our community whole again.
August 14, 2018
Seeing this level of support confirms that so many of us are aching to return to our roots and heal the divide in our community. These names prove that we are not alone in wanting to bring our respected teachers back to the center of our sangha life.
Reached 100 supporters
August 13, 2018
283 Comments
I have missed Judy Lief, Dorje Loppon, Larry Mermelstein, so much backbone and humor in dharma, wisdom and experience. Their teachings and stories are part of our treasure in dharma. Bring them back, please.
I couldn't agree more with this petition. It is to the Kagyu lineage and the Vidyadhara that I--like many others-- am devoted. I don't want to dismiss some of the teachings the Sakyong has created, but they'd be so much richer if they were joined to the Kagyu and Nyingma lineages.
I fully endorse the petition to include Dorje Loppon, Judy Lief and Larry Mermelstein and/or other senior teachers on the Interim Board. Indeed, unity is strength but divide and conquer strategies often result in long-term failure.
Our roots and stem are the Nyingma and Kagyu teachings from Marpa and Milarepa and onwards to CTR. This tree’s flowers and fruits are the Shambhala teachings and they complement the basis. Nothing can be left out.
Acknowledge what the name Karme Choling means...Practice place of the Karma Kagyu or remove the name. I sunk my dharmic baby teeth at KCL, it breaks my heart as a practitioner of our Kagyu-Nyingma path to not feel welcome.
Having been on staff at Shambhala Mountain Center when the Rigden Ngondro was first introduced, I immediately felt a schism develop in my heart and in the community around me. This is a ripe time to reintegrate these amputated appendages!
Yes, it is sad that Reginald Ray has left to give one example.
This is a wonderful petition,however you are just preaching to the choir ,We need A Shambhala subjects Transition Team, perhaps to work with the team assembled by SMR,this could expand the Shambhala vision,including every one,both expats ,and in pats,SMR has always said "it's my way or the highway"now we could expand and say "we are the highway" think about this We are Shambhala,lets move forward together.I would like to nominate Dr Reginald Ray to the transition Team also Bakes Mitchell, Who would you like to nominate?
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I have missed Judy Lief, Dorje Loppon, Larry Mermelstein, so much backbone and humor in dharma, wisdom and experience. Their teachings and stories are part of our treasure in dharma. Bring them back, please.