The gentle wisdom of "Zen and the Art of Happiness" shows how to invite magnificent experiences into your life and create a philosophy that will sustain you through anything. The Zen of doing anything is to behave with a particular state of mind that brings the experience of enlightenment to even everyday facts -- and through that experience, happiness. The stoics lived a long time ago, but they had some startling insights into the human condition - insights which endure to this day.
The philosophical tradition, founded in Athens by Zeno of Citium in BC, endured as an active movement for almost years, and contributions from dazzling minds such as Cicero, Seneca and Marcus Aurelius helped create a body of thought with an extraordinary goal - to provide a rational, healthy way of living in harmony with the nature of the universe and in respect of our relationships with each other.
In many ways a precursor to Cognitive Behavioural Therapy CBT , Stoicism provides an armamentarium of strategies and techniques for developing psychological resilience, while celebrating all in life which is beautiful and important.
By learning what stoicism is, you can revolutionise your life and learn how to seize the day, live happily and be a better person. This simple, empowering book shows how to use this ancient wisdom to make practical, positive changes to your life.
Using thought-provoking case studies, highlighting key ideas and things to remember and providing tools for self-assessment, it demonstrates that Stoicism is a proven, profound pathway to happiness. Available for the first time in trade paperback, the multi-million copy bestselling guide to happiness from His Holiness the Dalai Lama.
Nearly every time you see him, he's laughing, or at least smiling. The stoics lived a long time ago, but they had some startling insights into the human condition-insights which endure to this day. The philosophical tradition, founded in Athens by Zeno of Citium in BC, endured as an active movement for almost years, and contributions from dazzling minds such as Cicero, Seneca, and Marcus Aurelius helped create a body of thought with an extraordinary goal-to provide a rational, healthy way of living in harmony with the nature of the universe and in respect of our relationships with each other.
In many ways a precursor to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy CBT , Stoicism provides an armamentarium of strategies and techniques for developing psychological resilience, while celebrating all in life which is beautiful and important.
By learning what stoicism is, you can revolutionize your life and learn how to seize the day, live happily and be a better person.
This simple, empowering book shows how to use this ancient wisdom to make practical, positive changes in your life. The occasion was a big birthday. And it inspired two close friends to get together for a talk about something very important to them. The subject was joy. Both winners of the Nobel Prize, both great spiritual masters and moral leaders of our time, they are also known for being among the most infectiously happy people on the planet, despite having experienced great personal and national suffering.
From the beginning the book was envisioned as a three-layer birthday cake, the first being their personal stories and teachings about joy. Both the Dalai Lama and Tutu have been tested by extraordinary adversity, oppression, and conflict. The second layer consists of the exciting research into joy as well as the other qualities essential for any enduring happiness, like gratitude, humility, humour, compassion, generosity, and forgiveness.
And the third encompasses practical exercises and guidance based on the Dalai Lama's and Tutu's own daily practices, which anchor their emotional and spiritual lives.
Most of all, during that landmark week in Dharamsala, they demonstrated by their own exuberance, compassion, and even wise-cracking humour, how joy can be transformed from a fleeting emotion into an enduring way of being. An in-depth study of the philosophy, science and art of true self-knowledge taught by Bhagavan Sri Ramana Maharshi, giving detailed guidance on the practice of self-investigation atma-vichara , 'Who am I?
Is passion dangerous and to be avoided? Can we really be fulfilled without love, and can a broken heart ever be repaired? Is friendship still possible once desire has diminished or gone? Can mean and vicious people be happy? Is ambition overrated and only for losers? Are possessions and great wealth a guarantee of happiness, or an obstacle to it? Should we care about our reputations or what others say about us?
Does it matter what we leave behind us for future generations? Can women be as fulfilled as men, or vice versa? Drawing freely from her own joys, disappointments and present state of anguish, she encourages the reader to learn from experience and inevitable mistakes, and to confront the gifts and blows of life fearlessly, at every age.
Though she writes in the midth century, and in circumstances of relative comfort, her private reflections have a timeless and universal quality. She seems to light a path towards the many sources and forms of happiness and fulfilment that are within reach, not just of paragons of virtue, but of mere humans with all their flaws and frailties.
In the midst of her own despondency, she inspires us with her wisdom, her discernment, and a 'gourmandise' that, just for a change, is not bad for our health. Nevertheless, Voltaire remained a good friend, right up to her death, in her early forties, a few weeks after the birth or her daughter, who also died a few months' later. Sheila Oakley, who has a doctorate in French 18th century history, has translated this Discourse on Happiness from French into English.
She has also written the preface to this translation, and has added a short chronology of the author's life, and supplementary notes to explain certain contemporary allusions and references. She would be delighted to hear from readers who wish to give their impressions of the book, after reading it. She can be contacted at: [email protected] or readers may prefer to write a review of the book by clicking on the appropriate rubric at the top of this web page.
Uses techniques of Buddhist mind training to describe a way of life that will lead to happiness. Western Christian theology is skittish about happiness. We hope for future, eternal happiness, but we avoid considering happiness in this life as if we suspect such a thing is not allowed.
That You May Have Life offers a refreshing interpretation of happiness as a way of life grounded in scripture and the incarnate Christ. Ellen Charry here reveals how the Bible encourages the happiness and joy that accompany obedience to the Creator, enhancing both our own life and the lives of those around us. This advances the well being of creation, which, in turn, causes God to delight with, in, and for us. With this original theory of the Christian life, this book will encourage intelligent readers to take part in truly abundant life.
Enlivened by personal anecdotes and intimate accounts, His Holiness provides step-by-step exercises to help readers shatter their false assumptions and ideas of the self and see the world as it actually exists, which is a prelude to right action.
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