Launching Our Website/Smiling at Fear

The Chogyam Trungpa Legacy Project was established in 2006. Four years later, we finally have a functioning website. Go to chogyamtrungpa.com to see the new design. Part of the impetus for completing this, at long last, was that the Legacy Project was invited to be featured in connection with Pema Chodron's program SMILE AT FEAR. Pema will be presenting teachings in California on Oct 15 to 17, based on the book by that name, which was published just a year ago. I edited the material from Chogyam Trungpa's lectures on Shambhala vision and working with fear. The book has been doing extremely well.

Pema and I conferred around the time that the book was published. She generously offered to teach from SMILE AT FEAR at Omega Institute in 2009 and in northern California in October 2010. She invited me to present the meditation at both programs, a great learning opportunity for me.

Somewhat beyond anyone's expectations, the California program sold out -- with 3,000 people enrolled to attend! Wow! Now Shambhala Publications is offering a webcast of the seminar -- and in connection with that, The Legacy Project is featured on Shambhala's website in various places.

A great opportunity for us. The only problem was that we didn't have a decent website two weeks ago -- so we had to move quickly, with major help from a board member, Walter Fordham, who designed the site and got it up and running.

Let us know what you think!