How to Cultivate Mental Balance & Well-Being
Glen Svensson
19-21 February 2016
Glen Svenson
Achieving mental balance & well-being through cultivating and integrating the four types of balance
In this weekend retreat we will be looking at how to cultivate and integrate these four types of balance to achieve mental balance and well-being.
Glen Svenson: Originally from Australia, Glen has been a student and practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism since 1995 and graduated from the seven-year Masters Program in Advanced Buddhist Studies of Sutra and Tantra at the Lama Tzong Khapa Institute (Pomaia, Italy) in 2004.
Since 2005 he has taught and led meditation retreats in India, Europe, North America and Australia with a teaching style emphasizing clarity and stressing the integration of philosophical view, meditation and daily life conduct. Check his website on
www.glensvensson.org
Friday 19 Feb. 7.30pm: Introduction + PUBLIC TALK, Suggested donation £10-£5
Saturday 20 Feb. 9.30am-5 pm
Sunday 21 Feb. 9.30am-5pm
Venue: Sunshine Room, The Park Findhorn
Suggested donation: £100-60 (sliding scale) for whole weekend + introduction
Various options for meals are available.
Bookings: contact Margo van Greta togmesangpo37@gmail.com
Accommodation can be found on our local B+B list: findhorn.cc/services/bed-breakfast-list/
- Motivational balance is achieved through cultivating reality-based aspirations that are oriented towards one's own and other happiness instead of being, for example, caught up in the eight worldly concerns.
- Attentional balance is achieved through the shamatha practice of cultivating a clam, clear and focussed mind instead of being caught up in the imbalances of dullness and distraction.
- Cognitive balance is achieved through the vipashyana practice of realizing impermanence, selfless and emptiness instead of being caught up in grasping to things as unchanging, having a self or existing from their own side.
- Emotional balance is achieved through the practices of the four immeasurables instead of being caught up in reacting with mental afflictions such as anger, craving, jealousy and indifference.
In this weekend retreat we will be looking at how to cultivate and integrate these four types of balance to achieve mental balance and well-being.
Glen Svenson: Originally from Australia, Glen has been a student and practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism since 1995 and graduated from the seven-year Masters Program in Advanced Buddhist Studies of Sutra and Tantra at the Lama Tzong Khapa Institute (Pomaia, Italy) in 2004.
Since 2005 he has taught and led meditation retreats in India, Europe, North America and Australia with a teaching style emphasizing clarity and stressing the integration of philosophical view, meditation and daily life conduct. Check his website on
www.glensvensson.org
Friday 19 Feb. 7.30pm: Introduction + PUBLIC TALK, Suggested donation £10-£5
Saturday 20 Feb. 9.30am-5 pm
Sunday 21 Feb. 9.30am-5pm
Venue: Sunshine Room, The Park Findhorn
Suggested donation: £100-60 (sliding scale) for whole weekend + introduction
Various options for meals are available.
Bookings: contact Margo van Greta togmesangpo37@gmail.com
Accommodation can be found on our local B+B list: findhorn.cc/services/bed-breakfast-list/
