Contentment in Everyday Life (In-Person)

Contentment can be hard to find. Much of the time we seek it in relationships, achievements or material things. With meditation practice, we learn to relax with ourselves and appreciate simple human experiences. Difficult emotions and the challenges of life can be met with gentleness, mindfulness and openness. We learn to rest in nowness and explore how to work with impulse and emotion.

This five-part course offers instruction on the following topics:

Class 1: Introducing Contentment: "Friendly to Oneself"

Class 2: Contemplating Contentment: "Nowness"

Class 3: Suffering & The Four Noble Truths: "Meeting Suffering with Gentleness"

Class 4: Working with Emotions & Buddhist Psychology

Class 5: The Confidence of Contentment

Together we'll experience the notion that true contentment is always happening now -- if we could just learn to relax and tune into it.

About Shambhala Training:

The Shambhala Training path is a secular course of practice and study suitable for both beginning and experienced meditators, and open to people of any spiritual tradition. This comprehensive overview of mindfulness meditation and contemplative living practices presents the profound, simple and incredibly relevant view that when we foster a more awake and compassionate relationship with ourselves and with others, we can and are fostering a healthy transformation in society and our world altogether.

Testimonials:

"...I left feeling a true sense of contentment and with ways to cultivate contentment in my everyday life, learning to let go of much of the suffering I was putting myself through." — January 2021 Participant

"It was a transformational program in how I view everyday life, learning to find contentment and gratitude in many things I never thought I would." — January 2021 Participant

This event will be presented live, in-person, at Nalandabodhi Center, located at 64 Fulton Street, Suite #400 in NYC. Further information to be provided upon registration. Please note there is a limit of 12 people for this event so please register early.

Per CDC guidance, we encourage everyone to be vaccinated and boosted but we will not require proof of vaccination.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Nalandabodhi Buddhism centre, 64 Fulton Street, New York, United States