IN THIS NEWSLETTER: • From The Wisdom Seat • The Wisdom Seat Events • Programs To Consider • Wisdom's Melody • A Teaching One of Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche’s deepest desire was to bring the vajrayana teachings to the West. Over the past few years vajrayana students of VCTR celebrated his Parinirvana which is on April 4. This fell on a Saturday this year. We gathered at Pawo Khandro Ling, which is the Wisdom Seats shrine room. We assembled both in person and online to celebrate and...

IN THIS NEWSLETTER: • From The Wisdom Seat • The Wisdom Seat Events • Programs To Consider • Wisdom's Melody • A Teaching The Wisdom Seat board recently met to work through the results of our first community survey, and I am happy to share with you some updates shaped from your suggestions and feedback. Thank you to everyone who participated. How can I know what programs Wisdom Seat offers? Now there is one place, a public google calendar, where we have all our events listed....

On Thursday, February 5, 2026, Andrew Safer and Michael Carroll came together for an enriching conversation on mindfulness meditation and how we can engage with the profound paradoxes of our modern world. The session explored how insight, skill, and compassion can help us navigate a world filled with both abundant resources and heartbreaking crises. The Challenge We Face We live in a time of extraordinary possibility, yet we're simultaneously confronted by widespread tragedies: war,...