{"id":58190,"date":"2024-08-07T11:52:36","date_gmt":"2024-08-07T16:52:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bhantesujatha.org\/?post_type=tribe_events&p=58190"},"modified":"2024-08-07T11:52:36","modified_gmt":"2024-08-07T16:52:36","slug":"finding-peace-and-contentment-in-the-western-world","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/bhantesujatha.org\/event\/finding-peace-and-contentment-in-the-western-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding Peace and Contentment in the Western World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\">\u201cThe pursuit of happiness\u201d is a common bond that unites us all. Nearly everyone on the planet is actively engaged in finding sustainable happiness.<br \/>\nStill, regardless of our economic or social position, regardless of what we\u2019ve acquired along the way, happiness seems to exist as a mysterious wind that comes in, fills us with joy, and then leaves as unpredictably as when it arrived. We search for ways to capture it, to keep it around and\u00a0within us for the long term, but inevitably it escapes us and we find ourselves searching again.<br \/>\nIn this workshop, Bhante Sujatha teaches us that although we can\u2019t buy or build happiness, we can cultivate a simple mindfulness practice in our daily lives that leads to sustainable contentment which can permeate every aspect of our lives.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMindfulness in everyday life is easy to learn, simple to practice, and an essential element in creating a happy life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><strong>Please note:<br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wellhappypeaceful.me\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>\u201cChoose Loving-Kindness\u201d<\/strong><\/a> products and Bhante\u2019s publications will be available for purchase on-site, and Bhante will be able for book signing following the program.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0All proceeds help support Bhante\u2019s<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/bhantesujatha.org\/pregnant-mothers-project\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Pregnant Mother’s Program and Incubator Project <\/a><\/strong>in Sri Lanka.\u00a0\u00b7<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cThe pursuit of happiness\u201d is a common bond that unites us all. Nearly everyone on the planet is actively engaged in finding sustainable happiness. Still, regardless of our economic or…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[],"class_list":["post-58190","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry","description-off"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bhantesujatha.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/58190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bhantesujatha.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bhantesujatha.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bhantesujatha.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bhantesujatha.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58190"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bhantesujatha.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/58190\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58192,"href":"https:\/\/bhantesujatha.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/58190\/revisions\/58192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bhantesujatha.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bhantesujatha.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58190"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bhantesujatha.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=58190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}