Her Royal Highness Princess, Kezang Choden Wangchuck, today graced the inaugural session of the four day long workshop on Mindfulness, a source of Happiness. The workshop is being held at the Nazhoen Pelri Complex in the capital.
Her Royal Highness Princess Kezang Choden Wangchuck in her address to the gathering of some 400 youth said, Happiness is the single most important desire of every citizen and this can realised through mindfulness. Her Royal Highness also said the main purpose of the country’s national development endeavour is to promote happiness at individual, community and national levels.
“We are faced with mounting treats due to the cumulative socio-economic and ecological catastrophes. We need to aspire for the things that will raise our true well-being and pursue them in ways that are holistic and sustainable,” said Her Royal Highness Princess Kezang Choden Wangchuck. Her Royal Highness said these are the very thoughts that inspired the development philosophy of GNH which is founded on the understanding of happiness as a state of being that can only be realized by balancing gains in material comfort with the growth of the mind and spirit in a peaceful, just and sustainable environment.
Youth who completed university degree, high school students and school dropouts will learn meditation, yoga and other practical ways to gain happiness.
Seven monks and nuns from Plum village, a Buddhist meditation center in France and four youth from Wake Up Sangha, a global network of young people that practice the living art of mindfulness will teach the youth how to achieve happiness through mindfulness. The workshop is being organized by the GNH centre and Plum village.
