Falling In Love With Presence - by Suryacitta (The Happy Buddha)

COURSE

Falling In Love With Presence

With Suryacitta (The Happy Buddha)

This course is based on Suryacitta’s 30+ years of experience of meditation and teaching. We all want to be present, we intuitively know that to be happy and at peace we need to move from living in the head to living in the heart. But how do we do this? We can read about this shift, we can hear inspiring teachings, but we still find ourselves living too much in our thought made world, which can be very unsatisfactory or even worse, it can make us miserable. This course is practical and experiential in nature. Suryacitta in his own unique style will not only tell you what it is like to live in the heart, but will show you HOW to live in the heart. He will describe with practical meditations, teachings and techniques how to shift from being obsessed with thinking, with its worries and fantasies about past and future to FALL IN LOVE WITH PRESENCE. Please Note: Suryacitta doesn't use notes and therefore the sessions themselves are not so particularly structured. He prefers to keep it this way. This allows allows him to keep it fresh and alive and to be open to "in the moment" inspiration which enable him to use metaphors, images and stories.

AuthenticityAwakeningPresenceSpiritualityMindfulness MeditationHealth & HappinessSpiritualSpiritualityMindfulness

Meet your Teacher

Suryacitta (The Happy Buddha)
Leicester, United Kingdom

Suryacitta has been meditating since 1989 and is an ordained Buddhist minister. He has written five books on mindfulness, happiness, and compassion. He teaches retreats and courses in the UK, Europe, and Australia. He has appeared on BBC radio and tv doing their thought for the day, and a workshop on stress management. He is known as a mind expert and how our own thinking can create much mental suffering His teaching is simple, clear, and direct being free of cliches and jargon. He uses no notes or scripts speaking directly from his heart to your heart. He takes profound spiritual truths and translates them into easily understood everyday life teachings. He uses humor and draws on metaphors and stories from his own life. He shares observations from witnessing his dear 3-year-old Border Collie dog Bankei - 10.000 blessings - loses his eyesight. He shares, tools, techniques, and his 30+ years of Buddhist practice to help students move from living in the mind and overthinking to living in joy or presence to Fall in Love With Presence.

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10 Days

13.0k students

4.9 stars

21 min / day

Authenticity

English

Lesson 1

What Presence Is

Presence is undeniable, you have to be present to read this. Presence in the way Suryacitta talks about it is your true nature, it is your real home. Presence is your sense of aliveness right now. This presence, this aliveness initially doesn’t feel like much, but once we meet somebody who can show you how to fall in love with presence, you realise that your own presence is what you have always been looking for. It is The Beloved you have been seeking. There will be a talk and meditation on presence

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Lesson 2

The Never Ending Train Journey To Somewhere Better

As infants we were naturally present, we didn’t need all these teachings and to go on endless retreats. However, as we grow we become more oriented to thinking than being. At some point we see all the adults around us and believe they have life sorted, after all they are adults. It’s like they are all on this train journey to Somewhere Better so what do we do, we get on that train too. The only problem is that the destination called Somewhere Better doesn’t exist. This is It! There is a teaching and meditation on coming home to presence

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Lesson 3

Falling In Love With Presence

No matter how hard we try, irrespective of how strong our intention or desire to stop over thinking, we tend to remain captivated by all the stories and worries the mind creates. This session and indeed the whole course is dedicated to this one shift from head to heart, from living in past and future to falling madly in love with presence and relishing in the the joy and peace it brings. There will be a short, simple, direct teaching followed by a guided meditation and a technique for daily life when caught in thought. There is a teaching a technique for over thinking and a meditation on becoming familiar with presence

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Lesson 4

Dancing With Dragons - Working with Difficult Emotions

We all have difficult emotions, even the most enlightened of us have them too, they just don’t make a problem out of them. By means of a meditation we will explore what it means in real practical terms to welcome and to be at ease with feelings and emotions such as sadness, anger, resentment, anxiety, loneliness and every other emotion. Instead of turning away from our emotions or trying to get rid of them what we need to do is to feel them, and feeling them is healing them. There is a teaching and a meditation on befriending difficult emotions

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Lesson 5

Grandmother Mind And The Art Of Complete Acceptance

We all want to accept who we are and be at peace with ourselves, yet many of us seem to find this so difficult. Starting with a delightful story from his own childhood Suryacitta shows us how in very simple doable terms how we can move toward a life of acceptance rather than resistance. There is a meditation on acceptance and a teaching.

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Lesson 6

How To Quieten The Critical Voice In Your Head

Many of us have a voice in the head which comments, judges and criticises nearly all day long. The critical judging voice is the cause of much anxiety and unhappiness. We take this voice to be telling us the truth about life, other people and of course ourselves. Listening to this voice all day long prevents us from resting in presence and the joy that brings, but it also prevents us from listening to our intuitive voice, which whispers its wisdom. Here well explore how to start listening to life, rather than the voice. There will be a teaching, a further exploration of a technique for overthinking and a meditation on resting in presence

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Lesson 7

The Ocean And The Wave

Imagine living in a small boat on the ocean. Even on the calmest of days there is always movement, it would be a restless, upsetting experience. This is analogous to living in the world of thought. Now imagine diving deep to the depths of the ocean, where lies beauty, life, silence, stillness and power. This is analogous to presence. The innate qualities of presence are stillness, beauty, life and peacefulness. Where do you want to live? There is a teaching and a meditation on living in the depths

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Lesson 8

Living The Embodied Life

James Joyce once wrote, “Mr Duffy lived a short distance from his body.” I think this is true for so many of us living today. In a sense we are out of touch with our body being fixated with our virtual thought made world. Living an embodied life is learning to create inner space so that we can welcome and embrace the whole of our inner experience with honesty, courage and love. There will be a short talk, a technique on pausing and a meditation on being embodied at home in the body.

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Lesson 9

From Drama To No Drama - From Unhappiness To Happiness

When we live in mind, in thought, our lives are full of personal drama. We then strive to manage life so that we get the drama we think will make us happy. This is not only very tiring but also ultimately impossible. Happiness is experienced when we realise that our true nature, presence is already whole, complete and happy. However, and this has been Suryacitta's, we gradually become less fixated with mental drama and fall in love with presence, which is true and lasting happiness. There is a teaching and a meditation on listening to silence

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Lesson 10

Living In Presence - Moving From Self Centred Living To Life Centred living

As we let go more and more of living in the virtual world of thought and more in presence a shift takes place. A shift that is so profound, ordinary and familiar that we think to ourselves how did I ever take the world of thought to be the real world. This shirt is the greatest blessing. It is a shift from self centred to being life centred. No longer are we immersed in our personal drama but free to enjoy life, being carefree. There is a talk and a mountain meditation.

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Recent Reviews

Eva

February 2, 2026

This course does a great job at explaining presence and guiding the learner to a greater understanding of what it means to be present. This course has improved my quality of life and I will listen again. Thank you Happy Buddha!

Sandra

December 6, 2025

Best course I have done, wonderful x

Donna

October 25, 2025

Thank you. I am repeating this knowledge.

Leslie

July 31, 2025

Well this was great. I plan to do it again and again. Such a lovely teacher. Reminding us of how to be present with little stories and practices. All delivered with a loving heart.

Lise

July 19, 2025

Wonderful way of bringing you to presence gently.

Ros

June 4, 2025

Perfect , thank you :)

Cindy

May 7, 2025

Blessings of gratitude for this fabulous course in the presence of myself and the world around me! 🙏

John

April 27, 2025

This course was so amazing! I was a little skeptical of the title at first, but I understand now what this means and I do love being in presence. This has helped me feel more comfortable in this space with different techniques learned in this course. I smiled quite a few times with his playful and spontaneous nature.

L

April 27, 2025

This has been one of my favorite courses. I’ve done the ocean awarness aeveral times and it really resonated with me. I will plan to do this course several times over and thank you! 🙏🏼

Chris

April 7, 2025

I really enjoyed his light hearted approach! Very zen!

Rachael

April 7, 2025

Transformational course, helps you recognise and connect with your true nature of presence and stillness. Delivered in simplistic and inspirational ways.

Allison

March 24, 2025

Great metaphors and practices to embody the necessary and illusive experience of presence. I highly recommend and will re-listen in a month to go deeper. Also interested in his course called ‘Help, I can’t stop thinking’

devon

March 24, 2025

Loved this course so much!

Lea

March 21, 2025

Loved this course. Thank you 😊

Faye

March 18, 2025

Thank you for this course. It helped me to be with me, to stop, to feel, to know more when being present. To be away of what distracts, how to gently let go and to be the mountain. Thank you once again 🧡

Jeff

March 14, 2025

Wonderful course. Nothing slick, no fancy music. Just great ideas presented with humor. I definitely will return!

Michelle

March 11, 2025

Incredible journey to try to find myself in a state of peace & quiet the Chattering of yesterday & tomorrow

Lisa

March 4, 2025

Such a wonderful course. I am excited to return to it again. So grounding and expanding too. Loved this.

Sheilagh

March 2, 2025

What a lovely course. A chance to be with yourself. Nothing to evaluate. Nothing to attain. Just to be with myself for a bit of time every is ay

Kathy

February 26, 2025

Beautifully done. I will return to this course. Thank you

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