The Dhammakaya Meditation Center, Boston hosted an English meditation class on August 27th, 2016 where there were 13 attendees.
The event started with some stretching exercises taught by Ms. Penphraba Decha. Then, the Instructor monk, Ven. Ronapob led the group to meditate. He presented and discussed the research from Harvard University about the minds regarding how many people are easily distracted and preoccupying their minds with something. Most of the time it is about something negative rather than positive. Even when they are working, or engaging in some tasks, the mind is distracted and is somewhere else. Those who are successful devote their attention to the present.
The instructor monk kindly offered some useful tips to the attendees: to live in the present and do not get fixated in the past because it is unchangeable and the future is yet to come. When people engage in negative thoughts, worries, and wonder about the future, it is not beneficial to speculate about things that are not yet taking place or perhaps will be taking place at all. By focusing and living in the present and making the best of it this will result in a good future and happiness. The success that will happen in the future solely relies on the present’s action. Thus we shall live in the present and make ourselves happy and refreshed by training our minds through meditation “don’t worry be happy”. The atmosphere in the meditation class was filled with happiness.
