Mindfulness, Love and Relationship are on all of our minds here at Shambhala Sun — what with our Omega Institute program of the same name creeping up so fast. We’re happy to say that all of last year’s panel – John Tarrant, Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche, Polly Young-Eisendrath, and Sylvia Boorstein — will again be the featured speakers.

There’s no better way to give you a sense of the program’s value than sharing the teachings that have come from it, so here’s a short audio clip from Zen teacher and frequent Shambhala Sun contributor John Tarrant. Just click the player, below, to listen.

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John Tarrant is the author of Bring Me the Rhinoceros and Other Koans to Save Your Life and The Light Inside the Dark: Zen, Soul, & The Spiritual Life. He directs the Pacific Zen Institute, devoted to koan study and the arts.

To attend this year’s Mindfulness, Love, and Relationship weekend in New York City from April 3rd to April 5th, visit the Omega Institute, here.

For more sample teachings from our esteemed panel, just follow these links:

Polly Young-Eisendrath on “The Training of Love”

Shambhala Sun Audio: Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche on Mindfulness, Love and Relationship

Sylvia Boorstein: “We Are All Wayfarers”

And thanks for listening to Shambhala Sun Audio.