As the ACI-Los Angeles community has undergone a reorganization, so too has the Mahasukha Newsletter. The new quarterly blog-format comes at a time when some...
Letter From New ACI-LA President Rick Blue
Welcome to this première edition of the “new look” ACI-LA newsletter. I think that it is representative of the growth of ACI-LA. It’s hard to...
May Message From Venerable Marut
Bad Desire, Good Desire, The Desire, No Desire The Buddha, just after declaring in his first “noble truth” that life is shot through with suffering, said...
The Family Crucible
I wanted to take a moment to offer you some reflections based upon my experience as a dharma practitioner and a parent. Let me start with...
Artist Andy Weber Comes to Mahasukha
- photo courtesy of Ersellia Ferron While living in India and Nepal, Andy Weber studied under masters of Tibetan Buddhist iconographic art. Twenty-five years...
Spotlight on Claire Thompson
Spotlight on Claire Thompson - Interviewed by Alicia Tolbert In French “claire” means “clear”, “light”, and “bright”. Read on to see why this name is so...
The Conscious Media Network
-Contributed by Andrew LauGel For an alternative to “stupid, awful, and/or boring” media, I highly recommend the Conscious Media Network (CMN). Produced by Regina...
Dharma Flick Reviews
Implicit Dharma: Blade Runner In what is widely viewed as one of the greatest filmmaking achievements of all time, Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner enters ...
Mahasukha Photo Gallery
In January Yoga Studies Institute staff teacher James Hall came to the Mahasukha Center to teach Tibetan Heart Series 4: The Yoga of the Kalachakra...