Berkeley Shambhala 5/4-5/12

 

One hundred people filled the elegant dharma hall on Friday night, May 4th at the Berkeley Shambhala Meditation Center to hear Rinpoche speak about his new book, Open Heart, Open Mind. Rinpoche emphasized how we need to be kind to ourselves to restore essence love and find a child’s heart with an adult’s fully functioning mind. This is the combination of the playful and loving “Nepali heart” with the reasoning and organizing ability of the modern world’s mind. On the next day, he taught two sessions focusing on how to deeply let go and relax to heal our subtle body, the importance of dropping our identity as “this and that” and rest in the nature of mind. He told many great stories, each with many layers of meaning, yet punctuated with humor and a lot of laughter.