The Art Of Happiness
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They talk about the Mahayana visualization practice, it's where you mentally visualize taking on another person's pain and suffering and in return you give them all of your resources, good health, fortune and so on (203). When doing this you reflect on yourself and look at your situation and then look at the others and see if their situation is worse and if so you tell yourself that you could have it as bad as them or worse. By realizing your suffering you will develop greater resolve to put an end to the causes of suffering and the unwholesome deeds that lead to suffering. It will increase your enthusiasm for engaging in the wholesome actions and deeds that lead to happiness and joy. When you are aware of your pain and suffering it helps you to develop your amount of empathy. Allow you to relate to other people's feelings and suffering. Our attitude may begin to change because our sufferings may not be as worthless and as bad as we may think. Dr. Paul Brand went to India and explored over there and looked at how people suffered physical pain. He says it is a good thing we have physical pain because if we didn't then how would we know that something is wrong with our bodies (207) If we did not feel pain we would harm our bodies because we could stick our hands into fire. Not every practice may work for everyone. Everyone just has to try and figure out their own way of dealing with suffering and turning it into a positive feedback.
In recent decades, psychological research on the effects of mindfulness-based interventions has greatly developed and demonstrated a range of beneficial outcomes in a variety of populations and contexts. Yet, the question of how to foster subjective well-being and happiness remains open. Here, we assessed the effectiveness of an integrated mental training program The Art of Happiness on psychological well-being in a general population. The mental training program was designed to help practitioners develop new ways to nurture their own happiness. This was achieved by seven modules aimed at cultivating positive cognition strategies and behaviors using both formal (i.e., lectures, meditations) and informal practices (i.e., open discussions). The program was conducted over a period of 9 months, also comprising two retreats, one in the middle and one at the end of the course. By using a set of established psychometric tools, we assessed the effects of such a mental training program on several psychological well-being dimensions, taking into account both the longitudinal effects of the course and the short-term effects arising from the intensive retreat experiences. The results showed that several psychological well-being measures gradually increased within participants from the beginning to the end of the course. This was especially true for life satisfaction, self-awareness, and emotional regulation, highlighting both short-term and longitudinal effects of the program. In conclusion, these findings suggest the potential of the mental training program, such as The Art of Happiness, for psychological well-being.
Success will not bring you sustainable happiness, nor will failure bring you sustained depression. Sooner or later, we all return to our baseline happiness. The Dalai Lama explains that psychologists call this effect hedonic adaptation. It does not matter what is happening in your external events as you will eventually return to your baseline. Therefore, the benefit of Buddhism is that it shows you how to set this baseline to a higher level of happiness.
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The concept of happiness and what it takes to obtain it has been studied for years in psychology, but Kamrath sees a place for it in communications as well. Happiness is rooted not only in human behaviors, but in interactions, intentions and communicative acts.
In the class, students examine and practice how communication behaviors intersect with constructing happiness and well-being. They intentionally practice such topics as gratitude, optimism or resilience, and then critically reflect through a weekly journal, connecting those to current communication research findings.
The book begins by surveying the work of several theologians on the subject of happiness. Charry's presentation here is dynamic, alternating between brisk, focused, and at times exhaustive accounts of various figures depending on their significance for the topic of happiness. These first six chapters include treatments of Augustine, Boethius, Aquinas, and a surprising and very helpful (though compressed) survey of modern thinkers, and it concludeswith a study of Joseph Butler. Throughout these chapters, one finds careful scholarship and pedagogical sensitivity on display.Charry does not caricature these figures or their thought, but neither is she inattentive to potential weaknesses in their approaches. Helpful, but not excessive, footnotes point towards appropriate references in secondary literature parsing out issues in interpretation. The burden of this section is that there are a number of resources for robust theological reflection on happiness, but no single thinker provides a holistic approach. We arrive at the present day to find a lamentable reliance on non-theological reflection on happiness, wishing for a theology of happiness that is both more robust and integrative.
These first two sections of the book are complementary; the critical appropriation of the Christian tradition on happiness in the first section informs the exegesis in the second. Along these lines, Charry reads the occasion of divine punishment in the Decalogue and Levitical Holiness Code as asherist (rather than voluntarist or arbitrary), using what she outlines as Aquinas' medicinal property of punishment in the previous chapter. In a similar way, she interprets the Christology of John's Gospel through an Augustinian filter, noting an implicit suggestion in the Gospel that happiness is possible only when love is healed. This approach, in this reader's opinion, enhances the more exegetically focused reflection that follows in the second half of the book.
The main premise of the book is that all human beings seek happiness and that this search is the meaning of our lives. The understanding, the Dalai Lama says - that happiness is achievable - is the first step in leading a happy life.
If happiness is indeed achievable, how can we find it The proposed approach focuses on finding the roots of happy feelings and nurturing them, while avoiding the roots of bad feelings. Sounds simple, doesn't it
Compassion is the most discussed feeling in the book. Described as sharing someone else's suffering, it is, according to the Dalai Lama, the most important feeling to nurture in order to achieve happiness. Genuine compassion is the act of finding common ground with other human beings by recognizing their wishes for their own happiness.
Moreover, the path to internal change proposed by the Dalai Lama of education, conviction, persistence and action, resembles a lot the path drawn by many authors of management books. However non-spiritual this may sound, I see a pattern in what can bring us happiness and what can bring us career success.
\"It takes an equally long time to establish new habits that bring happiness. There is not getting around these essential ingredients: determination, effort and time. These are the real secrets to happiness.\" - Howard Cutler
I guess these techniques can be effective in bringing us down whichever path we choose, and I hope the Dalai Lama is right: that happiness is there at the end of a path, and that we just need to walk it.
The Art of Happiness is easy to read and follow, but not the kind book that makes you want to read it in one day. Howard Cutler complements every chapter by citing cientific studies which sustain the Dalai Lama's claims about the origins of happiness. Very often, he also acts as a sceptic in his interviews, enriching the debate with the Dalai Lama with thoughtful questions.
The book reads like a frank discussion about the Dalai Lama's thoughts on happiness, rather than a spiritual book. Having never read any other work about the Dalai Lama, I got a picture of a great warm-hearted person, a monk dedicated to his role as a spiritual leader, who nonetheless uses rationale to explain us his convictions.
From the realization of mental peace to the experience of illness, suffering, death, pain, pleasure, desire and contentment, the Dalai Lama opens a window into the attainment of absolute happiness in day to day life.
Many people hear the word \"Buddhism\", and they think it is a religion. However, a person of any religion can bring Buddhist principles into their life without giving up their religious beliefs. Buddhism is a simple and practical philosophy, practiced by more than 300 million people worldwide, that can make your life better and help you find inner peace and happiness.
What is happiness This question can be answered in different ways. Zen and the Art of Happiness will show you how to think and feel so that what you think and feel creates happiness and vibrancy in your life. Enjoy listening to this audiobook and create a personal philosophy that will sustain you through anything!
In this new collaboration, the subject is happiness at work. It's no wonder, really, that the Dalai Lama can speak to this important topic. As Robert Thurman pointed out in Inner Revolution, Tibetan civilization at the time of the Chinese invasion in 1950 was the result of 2,500 years of enlightenment culture with an emphasis upon freedom from negative emotions and obsessive self-concern. The Dalai Lama shows us how such inner liberty can affect our work lives.
A key theme of this book is that self-understanding is criti