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.

Open to all

Contentment in Everyday Life is the second course in Shambhala Training. It is preferable to take Meditation in Everyday Life, Shambhala Training Level I or Shambhala Training Level II prior to attending CIEL, but it is not required.

This Contentment in Everyday Life course is being hosted by the Shambhala Meditation Center of Albany, with Sky Lake and three other regional Shambhala Centers participating virtually.

Registration is limited so please register soon! Zoom information will be sent upon registration.