Transforming Enjoyments

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.

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