Wise Action
Wise Action is a series of conversations about how to act more effectively for the greater good, individually, interpersonally, in community, or in society. These
Michael Chender
Michael Chender started studying with Trungpa Rinpoche in 1970, and was a senior teacher and meditation instructor in the Buddhist and Shambhala streams of Trungpa Rinpoche’s teachings. He was the founder of the Shambhala Institute for Authentic Leadership (now ALIA). A founding force in this website as well as Wayside Initiative. Michael is sorely missed by the enourmous number of people whose lives he improved.
Courses
Listen To and Discuss the Crazy Wisdom Seminar
Journey with us to December 1972 and listen to Trungpa Rinpoche’s teachings on the life of Padmasambhava. These teachings have been gathered in the book
Transcending Madness: The Bardos and the Experience of the Six Realms
Recordings of a nine-week course of listening to and discussing Trungpa Rinpoche’s ground-breaking 1971 seminar on the six realms of being that we all regularly
Glimpses of Realization
The three kayas, or bodies of the Buddha, express the entire vibrant spectrum of enlightenment, from the beginningless primordial ground to the smallest details in
