Saturday, July 13, 10:00am - 1:30pm
Transforming Enjoyments
The Tantric Approach to a Meaningful Life
Offered online (for members only) and in-person (for everyone)
with Kadam Morten
10:00 - 11:15am, 12:15 - 1:30pm + Q&A
$25 or $15 per session, free for supporting members
Replays are not available for this event
For the option to purchase the recordings, register for all three sessions
Our ordinary enjoyments – companionship, pleasing environments, food, music and so on – captivate our attention. Pursuing them takes up a huge amount of our time. Yet at best they give us a fleeting moment of happiness and sometimes not even that. Our attachment to them also underlies our compulsions and self-destructive behaviors.
The path to actual long-lasting happiness and freedom lies through training the mind, both in meditation and in our daily life, because actual happiness is a state of mind and has inner causes. Is it possible to enjoy ourselves and make great spiritual progress while doing so? To, so to speak, have our cake and eat it too? Yes! However, to do so requires wisdom, discipline and a good heart.
In this course, through guided meditations, talks and discussion, Kadam Morten will introduce us to some of Buddha’s profound and beautiful methods whereby we can transform our experience of enjoyment into the peaceful and positive states of mind which are the actual causes of true and lasting happiness.
These methods, which come from Buddha’s Sutra and Tantra teachings, can be applied directly to enhancing our own lives. Not only do they help us to enjoy ourselves more, they enable us to make our lives more meaningful and beneficial.
Everybody welcome.
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DETAILS
It is recommended to attend this event in its entirety
Suitable for both beginners and more advanced meditation practitioners
No special clothing is required
Everyone welcome!
Read our class terms and conditions
Headphones are available for those who are hard of hearing. Please contact [email protected] to reserve a pair
EVENT LOCATION
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