Gen Kelsang Tilopa will give a talk “The Source of Happiness” based on the book 8 Steps to Happiness

Friday 3/12  7pm-8pm

Gen Kelsang Tilopa, resident teacher of Kosala Buddhist Center, will give a talk “The Source of Happiness” based on the book 8 Steps to Happiness by Kadampa Meditation Master Venerable Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

This event is sponsored by the Kosala Buddhist Center of Chapel Hill (meditationinchapelhill.org)

"Eight Steps to Happiness" is a commentary on a 12th Century poem which describes the complete path to pure peace and happiness to be found only within our mind.

Everyone wants to be happy and no one wants to suffer, but very few people understand the real causes of happiness and suffering. We tend to look for happiness outside ourself.

We spend almost all our time adjusting our external world, but we still fail to find pure and lasting happiness.

If our mind is pure and peaceful we will be happy regardless of our external circumstances, but if it 

is unpure and unpeaceful we can never be happy no matter how hard we try to change our external circumstances.

Gen Kelsang Tilopa will explain the meaning of this eight verse poem, and show how to engage in the practice of "Eight Steps to Happiness".