Upcoming Meditation Retreat in Alabama with Gen Mondrub! |
"The Happy Renunciate: The Joyful Path to Personal Liberation"
Second annual country meditation retreat with Gen Mondrub at Joe Wheeler State Park. June 19 - 21. This relatively advanced retreat provides authentic instructions on how to create the joyful mind of Buddhist renunciation, enabling us to transform daily activities into the path of liberation. |
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Transform Your Life: A Blissful Journey |
Books-a-Million - Transform Your Life Book Study, Sundays at 3pm
University Drive and Memorial Parkway Junction
Currently meeting in the cafe area
Suggested
Donation: $7, no one is turned away due to lack of funds.
Due to the retreat, there will be no weekly classes in The Shoals or in Huntsville June 19 - 21.
Excerpt from the book, Transform Your Life:
"All living beings have the same basic wish to be happy and avoid suffering, but very few people understand the real causes of happiness and suffering. We generally believe that external conditions such as food, friends, cars, and money are the real causes of happiness, and as a result we devote nearly all our time and energy to acquiring these. Superficially it seems that these things make us happy, but if we look more deeply we shall see that they also bring us a lot of suffering and problems.
"Why is this? Happiness and suffering are states of mind, and so their main causes cannot be found outside the mind. The real source of happiness is inner peace. If our mind is peaceful, we shall be happy all the time, regardless of external conditions, but if it is disturbed or troubled in any way, we shall never be happy, no matter how good our external conditions may be. We can understand this through our own experience." -- Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso
Everyone
is welcome of any religious or non-religious background.
No need to attend each class; drop in any time. |
