The 16 Guidelines for a Happy Life

Monday Evenings: 7.15 pm
From 15 June

Most people spend all their life looking for happiness, in one way or another; everyone wants to be happy. In our country we are surrounded by possessions and material comfort, but where is the real happiness in our lives? We seem to have lost touch with what it means, and how to find it.

The 16 Guidelines for a Happy Life take a direct and practical approach to the subject of happiness. They propose that everyone has the capacity to be happy. Our lives are shaped by our thoughts from earliest childhood until the day we die. How we think lies at the root of every word we speak and every action we perform. For this reason, recognising the power of the mind is the most important theme that underlies the 16 Guidelines for a Happy Life.

How we choose to act defines and colours the very quality of our life and experiences. Recognising that we are all deeply interconnected helps us to interact skilfully. Our search for meaning depends on our ability and willingness to explore new and unfamiliar territory. The fact that everything is changing makes anything possible.

In these classes you will receive practical tools which will help you to work with the 16 Guidelines for a Happy Life in your daily life. The original text of the 16 Guidelines was written by the Tibetan King Songtsen Gampo.

Lama Zopa has advised that the wisdom of this text becomes the practice of “Essential Education”, an initiative of Lama Yeshe. These teachings are based on the wisdom and skilful means of Tibetan Buddhism, but are presented in a secular way.

These classes are suitable for all and can be joined at any time.

Facility Fee: $10 waged, $8 concession, $7 member