NEWSLETTER

On June 25, we gathered on Zoom, with Bill sitting at Alex deVaron's piano, for a conversation about music, presence, and dharma. Alexander deVaron is a composer, music theorist, and longtime Buddhist teacher who began teaching in Shambhala in 1986 and spent five years living at Karme Choling. His primary teachers have been Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche, Sakyong Mipham Rinpoche, and Khenpo Tsultrim Gyamtso Rinpoche, and he has spent decades exploring where Buddhism and music actua

IN THIS NEWSLETTER: • From The Wisdom Seat • The Wisdom Seat Events • Programs To Consider • Wisdom's Melody • A Teaching Lojong Slogan # 59: Don't Expect Applause Recently this Lojong or Mind Training slogan spontaneously arose in my mind. Why? Maybe because Wisdom Seat offers a class on Lojong? Maybe because I haven't really practiced these slogans deeply for a while? More likely because I haven't heard applause for a long time? No - Why not slogan # 1 "First train in

Interview by Joanna Rotté (A Sky Lake Series) View this episode's page on Libsyn Michele Martin has two graduate degrees in literature from Yale University and has been a Buddhist practitioner in the Karma Kagyu lineage for over forty years. She is a founding board member of the Tibetan Buddhist Research Center and has spent more than thirty years studying with and translating for Tibetan lamas in Nepal and India. She is the author and translator of Music in the Sky: The Life