![]() ![]() To backtrack a bit, my wife Dorothy had done a week-long Shambhala retreat in Nova Scotia a few years ago, and she completed her final Shambhala basic training level (Level 5) in November, 2016, which happened to be a few days after the U.S. But Trungpa died in 1987, and his son Sakyong Mipham, who has been the Shambhala guru since 1990, is apparently a bona fide ethical and upstanding human being in his personal life. ![]() However, it was common knowledge for anyone familiar with religious cults that Trungpa was a controversial guru with a reputation for being both an alcoholic and engaging in numerous sexual encounters with his devotees. ![]() Now Shambhala and Trungpa is not in my Modern Religions book only because I had never experienced this religion and my book is an experiential account of my experiences in modern religious movements. How in the world can I be doing all this? Me, the authentic philosopher and individualist?Īs I traverse through my late 60's, to my utter surprise I have found myself involved with a spiritual community, the Shambahala organization, which has its lineage in Buddhist ancestry, but was initiated in the West by Chögyam Trungpa in the 1970's. But perhaps I should have my head examined. ![]()
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