How to Develop and Maintain a Peaceful Mind

“If we really want pure and everlasting happiness and freedom from misery, we must learn to control our mind, principally our desire.” - How to Transform Your Life, Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

Every living being has the same basic wish - to be happy and avoid suffering. Although all living beings have the same basic wish to be happy all the time, very few people understand the real causes of happiness. Happiness and suffering are states of mind, and so their main causes are not to be found outside the mind. If we want to be truly happy and free from suffering, we must learn how to control our mind, principally our desire.

In these classes, Kadampa Buddhist teacher Cate Fields will introduce the basic Buddhist teachings and meditations on inner peace, understanding death, rebirth, and karma. Start at the beginning of the series if you can, but if you miss the beginning then start when you are able.

Recommended reading: How to Transform Your Life by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso. Available in our shop, or free download here - https://tharpa.com/us/how-to-transform-your-life-us.html

January 20 - How to Develop and Maintain a Peaceful Mind

January 27 - Past and Future Lives Explained: Rebirth

February 3 - Overcoming the Laziness of Attachment: Meditation on Death

February 10 - NO CLASS

February 17 - Creating Happiness, Not Suffering: Karma

February 24 - Renouncing our Cycles of Suffering: Samsara