Classes
in The Shoals
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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Book
Discussion Group: Transform Your Life
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Every
Sunday "Book Club":
12:30 - 1:30pm: Book Study, Meditation and Discussion
Class
Due to the retreat, there will be no weekly classes in The Shoals or in Huntsville June 19 - 21.
Books-a-Million
in Florence
302 Cox Creek Parkway
Florence, Alabama 35630
Tables to the left and behind the coffee shop.
Every
Wednesday at Unitarian Universalist Church**:
6:00pm - 7:00pm: Guided Meditation and
Discussion based on the previous Sunday's topic
** Every 3rd Wednesday Puja and Potluck (no class on New Year's Eve)
Unitarian
Universalist Church
1332 Pine Street
Florence, Alabama 35630
3.5 blocks West of Wood Avenue
See Map Below.
Suggested Donation:
$7 for all classes, no one is turned away due to lack of funds.
Transform Your Life: A Blissful Journey
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"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 in Transform
Your Life
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Remember to check back for upcoming events and additional classes.
Map to Unitarian Universalist in Florence, AL
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