How to Train a Happy Mind meditation retreat in California
August 8-11, 2024
Boulder Creek, California
Join author and meditation teacher Scott Snibbe at California’s Vajrapani Institute for a three-day in-person retreat on the meditation topics from his book How to Train a Happy Mind with a foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
About THE retreat
Based on his book How to Train a Happy Mind, this three-day retreat with Scott Snibbe offers a relaxed tour of eight 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.
The retreat requires no prior knowledge of Buddhism and 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 that come up as Westerners learn the Buddhist path.
About Vajrapani Institute
Vajrapani Institute for Wisdom Culture was the first Tibetan Buddhist Retreat Center in America. Vajrapani aims to provide a friendly and conducive environment for people of all nationalities to learn, put into practice the teachings of the Buddha, and connect with other Dharma practitioners. Located on 70 acres of secluded land within the redwood forests of the Santa Cruz mountains, Vajrapani Institute has been an immersive space for people of all backgrounds to find and deepen their spiritual practices, with the main goal of bridging the gap between the head and heart of practice.
