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Meditation Classes In Penrith

April/May Classes - Habits of Happy People - These Penrith meditation classes are for everyone. You do not need experience to attend.

Event Date

06 May 2025

This event occurs Weekly every:

Tuesday

£ 6 per class

Description

About these Habits of Happy People Classes

We tend to make the attainment of happiness more complicated than it actually is, by believing that we need things such as success, praise, people, status, looks and possessions etc. to achieve it. The reality is that none of these things can give us lasting happiness and depending upon them actually makes our mind prone to anxiety, frustration and disappointment.

Buddha explains simple attitudes that we can all learn to cultivate that will really make us happy. On this course we will explore how we can cultivate the happy minds of contentment, gratitude, acceptance and joy. It will include guided meditations to show us how to do this.

You will:

feel empowered to create your own experience of happiness
experience a deeper peace and calm
be able to help others solve their problems

Quote from How to Transform Your Life by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, “The purpose of meditation is to make our mind calm and peaceful. If our mind is peaceful we will be free from worries and mental discomfort, and so we will experience true happiness. If our mind is not peaceful, we will find it very difficult to be happy, even if we are living in the very best conditions. If we train in meditation, our mind will gradually become more and more peaceful, and we will experience a purer and purer form of happiness. Eventually we will be able to stay happy all the time, even in the most difficult circumstances.”

About the teacher

The teacher of this course is Dave Stones. Dave is from Penrith and teaches in a very practical way that is easy to understand and use in daily life. He has been practising Kadampa Buddhism for 30 years.