We meet weekly on Tuesday evenings at the Bratenahl Community Center for sitting and walking meditation. Meditation sessions are free and open to the public. Meditation instruction is generally available on Tuesday nights. The Cleveland Shambhala Meditation Group is a meditation and study center founded by Ch gyam Trungpa Rinpoche, a poet, artist, scholar, and one of the first Tibetan lamas to teach in the west. Although the Cleveland group is called a Shambhala Meditation Group, we offer courses and meditation practice in both the Shambhala and Buddhist paths.
Students are free to follow either, or both paths.
The basic meditation practice in both paths is the same. The Director of the Cleveland Shambhala Meditation Group is Fred Schwieg. The center is just a few minutes from downtown Cleveland. The Access Road soon turns into Lakeshore Blvd. Lakeshore makes a sharp turn to the left at its junction with Burton.