The Art of Happiness

There is no wisdom higher than love.  The highest aspiration we can make for our lives is to come to a state of unconditional love for ourselves and others. For to do so is the ultimate gesture of acceptance, forgiveness and generosity.

We are living now in a time of great challenge and many of us are finding it hard to find peace and serenity in our daily lives. The process of meditation and refinement of character that helps us to get to the state where we are unperturbed by such challenges and at peace with our lives is a gradual one that we work towards over time.

While we work to this end we need immediate antidotes to the difficulties we face. We are in an age now where anger frustration and ill will are every bit as prevalent as greed and attachment. In fact we might even say that it is the aversion that appears in us that is causing more immediate suffering than the greed that we need to let go over time. The natural instinct of human kindness and affection is often suffocated in so many of us simply because we feel overwhelmed by life. It has become hard enough to have to secure our own survival let alone have time for love and good will towards others.

We are intelligent beings who swiftly grasp high spiritual principles but we have forgotten how to love unconditionally and tend to remain judgemental. We rate often our progress towards liberation in terms of how much we have come to understand and not by the emerging qualities we express.

Never is any quality more important than the ability to feel and express pure unconditional love, for it IS the very remedy to the agitation and aversion that plagues us and keeps our minds from resting peacefully.

This retreat will approach the practice of loving kindness from many angles. We  will develop meditations on acceptance and forgiveness for self and others, as well as on appreciative joy and gratitude.

You are all invited to consider seriously taking the time out to learn the foundation practices of Loving Kindness and Appreciative Joy and make them a genuine part of your life as soon as you can.

Course Length: 4 days
Location: Poulstone Court (Herefordshire)
Price: Donation for shared accommodation (suggested donation is £170), £375 for single accomodation
Deposit: £100

Teachings are provided on Dana (donation) and are not included in the price for single rooms. For further information on retreat pricing and donation only retreats please this message from Burgs and a little more info here.

For information about how to make the deposit payment which reserves your place on retreat, please see the Contact Us/Payment page.