Coming in Spring 2010: The Shambhala Sun Foundation's First "Auction for a Mindful Society"
Birth of the Shambhala Sun Foundation
The Shambhala Sun, the most widely read Buddhist-based magazine in North America, and Buddhadharma: the Practitioner's Quarterly, an in-depth journal of Buddhist teachings, are now published by the Shambhala Sun Foundation--an independent non-profit operating in the United States and Canada. The Shambhala Sun Foundation has a deep commitment to presenting the perspectives of all genuine Buddhist traditions through its publications and other ventures.
The Shambhala Sun’s coming “Auction for a Mindful Society” is a way for organizations to extend their message of mindfulness and awareness to a wide audience, and to support our initiative to report on and promote all the important efforts being made to create a mindful society.
The Auction will take place May 17 to 31, 2010. It features the great work being done by pioneers of the mindfulness movement, and we’d like you to be included. The auction catalog will offer a wide variety of media, products, teachings, and experiences to help people bring mindfulness into their lives. Your participation will mark you as an important participant in this growing movement.
The Shambhala Sun Foundation is committed to reporting, promoting, and publishing the work of mindfulness teachers, researchers, and practitioners. It is our aim to serve as cross-pollinator and incubator of ideas and methods of this work, which offers so many benefits to people’s lives and to our society. We see this as one of the Shambhala Sun Foundation’s most important projects, and the proceeds of this auction will directly support this work.
Want to be involved? Consider donating a product or service to the auction. The choice would be yours. Others have asked for and found suggestions helpful, so if you'd like a suggestion, send an email to Cindy Littlefair, who heads up Operations and Special Projects at the Shambhala Sun Foundation: c.littlefairshambhalasun.com
Our marketing and promotional reach for this auction will include print ads in the Shambhala Sun and Buddhadharma – as well as an extensive online presence using our own vehicles and those of partnering co-marketers. It works well; our 3rd Annual Auction had a fabulous response. Plus, we were pleased that many partner community and organizations participated, offering us promotion through their own websites and e-lists.
We'll be bringing together and presenting the best of the mindfulness movement's representatives and their work. We hope you’ll join us.
Stay tuned for more details.
[Image credit: picture above is Recycle, an enso by painter Kaz Tanahashi.]
"As mindfulness flowers into a rich blend of mindfulness-awareness that ties the whole room together we recognize interdependence: our connectedness to others and to all the world's processes." Barry Boyce
