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  • Maximum $108.00 – Sliding Scale Zoom Only Suggested Donation ($55)
  • Maximum $108.00 – Sliding Scale In-Person Suggested Donation ($55)

Date & Time Details: Sunday, March 30, 2025
11:00 am – 5:00 pm PST

Location: In-Person in the Gompa and Online via Zoom

Address: 5800 Prescott Road, Soquel, CA, USA

Contact: Patrick McGinn
[email protected]

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How to Train a Happy Mind—March Daylong

With Scott Snibbe

March 30, 2025

In-Person and Online Via Zoom

Sunday, March 30

11:00 am – 5:00 pm

Based on his popular book, How to Train a Happy Mind, this series of three separate daylong Sunday retreats with Scott Snibbe offers a relaxed tour of transformative meditations that help bring out your best qualities, deepen your relationships, and build a better world. 

Each of the retreat’s practices is derived from the Tibetan Buddhist lamrim “stages of the path,” a series of analytical meditations highly refined over the centuries. This lesser-known form of meditation complements the more popular mindfulness meditation by using stories, emotions, and critical thinking to actively steer the mind away from frustration, craving, and loneliness and toward happiness, connection, and satisfaction. 

Designed for ordinary modern people curious how to live meaningful, happy lives, this retreat requires no prior knowledge of Buddhism, as each topic naturally prepares you for the next: from life’s preciousness and impermanence to compassion and the interdependent nature of reality.

Committed Buddhists have also found the How to Train a Happy Mind sequence valuable because it brings a modern approach to age-old Buddhist topics, while honestly exploring questions about karma, rebirth, and other realms of existence that come up as Westerners learn the Buddhist path.

 

Day 2—March 30

Am I the Most Important Person In the Universe?

What Do You Do When You’re Alone?

The Red Pill of Renunciation

 

To register for the other daylong in this series, please use the links below:

Day 3—April 27 : https://landofmedicinebuddha.org/retreat-guru/1009/how-to-train-a-happy-mind-april-day-long/

 

Schedule

11:00 am – 12:30 pm—Session 1

12:30 pm – 1:30 pm—Lunch

1:30 pm – 3:00  pm—Session 2

3:00 pm – 3:30 pm—Tea break

3:30 pm – 5:00 pm—Session 3



Leader

Scott Snibbe
Scott Snibbe is a new media artist, author, and meditation instructor. He serves as the executive director of A Skeptic’s Path to Enlightenment, and hosts its popular meditation podcast. In 2024, Snibbe released his first book, How to Train a Happy Mind, featuring a foreword by His Holiness the Dalai…
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