Getting Centered Donations

Palm Beach Shambhala is growing!  Please help us with our “Getting Centered” Fundraising drive.  Your donation will be spent on necessities for our new location such as new meditation cushions, window treatments and other fixtures.

“Any gift is a symbol of commitment.  In the old days in Tibet if you were going to give gold to the teacher, you had to work for it; you had to gather it.  It’s value came from the fact that it cost you alot of effort and energy to acquire it.  Giving a gift was a sign of committing your energy in the right direction, in the direction of the teaching.  this was true in those old days when Tibetans went to India to receive teachings, just as it is true here nowadays.

On the whole we should regard money as mother’s milk.  It nourishes us and it nourishes others.  that should be our attitude toward money.  It’s not just a check or a dollar bill that we have in our wallet.  Each dollar contains a great deal of the past.  Many people worked for that particular dollar.  They worked so hard with their sweat and tears, as Churchill said.  So that money is like mother’s milk, very precious.  At the same time mother’s milk can be given away, and we can produce more mother’s milk.  So we shouldn’t hang on to it too tightly.  When there is more gentleness, more kindness, and more willingness to share with others, that brings tremendous gratitude, nonaggression, and the wealth of mother’s milk.”

Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche