Scott Snibbe
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Zoom Retreat: How to Train a Happy Mind Saturday, March 1st 10:00 AM - 12:00 & 1:00 PM -3:00 PM Based on his popular book How to Train a Happy Mind, this daylong retreat 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. |
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Schedule
10am-12pm What Is Analytical Meditation? What Is the Mind?
1pm-3pm The Precious Life Embracing Impermanence
Sessions
What Is Analytical Meditation?
Meditation isn’t just a tool to improve focus or relax, but a way to strengthen the positive qualities we all naturally possess: compassion, kindness, generosity, patience, humor, and finding joy in everyday life. Learn what the difference is between stabilizing (or mindfulness) meditation, the calming meditation that focuses your mind, and analytical meditation, the active type of meditation that steers your mind toward its best qualities.
What Is the Mind?
Science still has no agreed definition for consciousness or mind. But through meditation, we can subjectively explore the mind. What is the mind? If the mind is our thoughts, then what is it that observes those thoughts? What are we without thoughts? Do we ever truly see an object, or only its mental reconstruction? And most importantly, how can we transform our mind toward happiness, presence, and connection?
The Precious Life
Voltaire once said, “It is not more surprising to be born twice than once.” But whether we believe we have one life or many, it’s easy to take our life for granted: our relationships, possessions, our health, body, mind. Here, we contemplate the miracle of existing at all, from our place at the end of our universe’s 14 billion years’ evolution, to the simple joy of another 24 hours alive.
Embracing Impermanence
“Every moment is new” is of the simplest and most powerful Buddhist teachings. In the fourth class, we talk about impermanence. We tend to cling to things as if they won’t change, but change is the nature of reality. When we embrace impermanence, we prepare ourselves for big changes, and can let go of our fear and anxiety to become more fully present to those around us and make the most meaningful choices day-to-day. Embracing impermanence even helps to enjoy life’s fleeting pleasures more fully, without fear that they’ll end or craving for more.
What Is Analytical Meditation?
Meditation isn’t just a tool to improve focus or relax, but a way to strengthen the positive qualities we all naturally possess: compassion, kindness, generosity, patience, humor, and finding joy in everyday life. Learn what the difference is between stabilizing (or mindfulness) meditation, the calming meditation that focuses your mind, and analytical meditation, the active type of meditation that steers your mind toward its best qualities.
What Is the Mind?
Science still has no agreed definition for consciousness or mind. But through meditation, we can subjectively explore the mind. What is the mind? If the mind is our thoughts, then what is it that observes those thoughts? What are we without thoughts? Do we ever truly see an object, or only its mental reconstruction? And most importantly, how can we transform our mind toward happiness, presence, and connection?
The Precious Life
Voltaire once said, “It is not more surprising to be born twice than once.” But whether we believe we have one life or many, it’s easy to take our life for granted: our relationships, possessions, our health, body, mind. Here, we contemplate the miracle of existing at all, from our place at the end of our universe’s 14 billion years’ evolution, to the simple joy of another 24 hours alive.
Embracing Impermanence
“Every moment is new” is of the simplest and most powerful Buddhist teachings. In the fourth class, we talk about impermanence. We tend to cling to things as if they won’t change, but change is the nature of reality. When we embrace impermanence, we prepare ourselves for big changes, and can let go of our fear and anxiety to become more fully present to those around us and make the most meaningful choices day-to-day. Embracing impermanence even helps to enjoy life’s fleeting pleasures more fully, without fear that they’ll end or craving for more.
About Scott Snibbe
Scott Snibbe is a twenty-five-year student of Tibetan Buddhism whose teachers include His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Lama Zopa Rinpoche. He is the author and host of the How to Train a Happy Mind book and podcast, and leads meditation classes and retreats worldwide infused with science, humor, and the realities of the modern world.
Over the course of his career as a new media artist, Snibbe has created bestselling art and music apps, and collaborated with musicians and filmmakers including Björk, James Cameron, and Philip Glass. His interactive art has been collected by both science and art museums, including the Whitney Museum of American Art and New York’s Museum of Modern Art.
Scott Snibbe is a twenty-five-year student of Tibetan Buddhism whose teachers include His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Lama Zopa Rinpoche. He is the author and host of the How to Train a Happy Mind book and podcast, and leads meditation classes and retreats worldwide infused with science, humor, and the realities of the modern world.
Over the course of his career as a new media artist, Snibbe has created bestselling art and music apps, and collaborated with musicians and filmmakers including Björk, James Cameron, and Philip Glass. His interactive art has been collected by both science and art museums, including the Whitney Museum of American Art and New York’s Museum of Modern Art.
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