Joy in Everyday Life

Joy in Everyday Life is a 5-week course exploring the meaning of joy and the "windhorse" of personal energy and inspiration. The course introduces Mahayana Buddhist teachings, to experience how awakening our heart and extending loving-kindness to others also arouses our personal inspiration. This cheerful, perky, joy provides the inspiration and energy to go forward on the journey of compassion and warriorship.

This is the 3rd class in the Way of Shambhala curriculum (after Contentment in Everyday Life). It offers a glimpse of the Shambhala vision of an enlightened society created through mindfulness-awareness meditation, and how the stability and wisdom cultivated through this practice can expand to benefit the world around us.

Class topics:

Class 1,  Introducing Joy
Class 2,  Awakened Heart
Class 3,  The Trap of Doubt
Class 4,  Compassion in Action: The Paramitas
Class 5,  Discipline and the Virtues of the Higher Realms

Prerequisite: Meditation in Everyday Life and/or Contentment in Everyday Life or Shambhala Training Weekend 1

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About the Way of Shambhala:

The Way of Shambhala is composed of Shambhala Training Levels I-V, each followed by a five-week course that expands upon what was offered in the weekend and brings the practice of meditation into everyday life.

Joy in Everyday Life is the third of the five weekly courses that accompany the Shambhala Training levels. It is recommended either before or after Shambhala Training Level III, but Joy in Everyday Life can be taken on its own.

The Way of Shambhala cirriculum offers a glimpse of the Shambhala vision of enlightened society by emphasizing the ways in which meditation can impact our daily lives, and from there, how the sanity of meditation can expand to impact our community and our whole society. Please click here for a full description and chart of the Way of Shambhala.

The fee for the classes is 2000 Baht per person, which includes the reading/study material.