The Art of Happiness

Posted on 21 May 2017 by Dalai Lama XIV

Nearly every time you see him, he s laughing, or at least smiling And he makes everyone else around him feel like smiling He s the Dalai Lama, the spiritual and temporal leader of Tibet, a Nobel Prize winner, and an increasingly popular speaker and statesman What s , he ll tell you that happiness is the purpose of life, and that the very motion of our life is towards happiness How to get there has always been the question He s tried to answer it before, but he s never had the help of a psychiatrist to get the message across in a context we can easily understand Through conversations, stories, and meditations, the Dalai Lama shows us how to defeat day to day anxiety, insecurity, anger, and discouragement Together with Dr Cutler, he explores many facets of everyday life, including relationships, loss, and the pursuit of wealth, to illustrate how to ride through life s obstacles on a deep and abiding source of inner peace. Read The Art of Happiness – kino-fada.fr Despite the author being the Dalia Lama, this book was actually written by a Western Psychologist named Howard Cutler It is mostly presented as interviews or meetings between himself and the Dalai Lama I really enjoyed the segments that were pure quotes from the Dalai Lama, but found myself constantly frustrated by Cutler s questions and obviously inserted after the fact summaries of the responses I would paraphrase the entire book like this Cutler So what can every person do to be Despite the author being the Dalia Lama, this book was actually written by a Western Psychologist named Howard...This book is actually written by a psychiatrist and includes extensive interviews with the Dalai Lama about how to be a generally happier person Parts of the book are really great, and a couple of sections are a litt...I first read this book as a freshman in high school but I ve read it again at least twice I m not sure how it initially started but I ve always been fascinated by the Dalai Lama of Tibet TheI read about him, theI m in awe of him While I recommend reading his biography first, this specific book is about the concept of happiness and how we attain it It s not a self help book but rather a book about how the Dalai Lama believes that people inheritantly have the ability to find happin I first read this book as a freshman in high school but I ve read it again at least twice I m not sure how it initially started but I ve always been fascinated by the Dalai La...Dalai Lama believes in fundamental goodness in all human beings, in the value of compassion and kindness, and a sense of commonality among all living creatures.Happiness is determinedby one s state of mind than by external events.Excessive desire leads to greed, which leads to frustration, disappointment, problems and unhappiness.True antidote of greee is contentment to appreciate what we already have.Relationships are not about just knowing people and superficial exchange, but to really Dalai Lama believes in fundamental goodness in all human beings, in the value of compassion and kindness, and a sense of commonality among all living creatures.Happiness is deter...The Moms was watching a movie that was so filled with awkward and embarrassing social interaction that I cast desperately about me for something else to do Near at hand was The Art of Happiness by Dolly and some doctor guy I picked it up and began to read I m about half way through guess I m 50% enlightened and it s really quite good Except for the parts that are stupid or wrong The problem is not so much what the Big D has to say, but the doctor guy s interpretation or amplification T The Moms was watching a movie that was so filled with awkward and embarrassing social interaction that I cast desperately about me for something else to do Near at hand was The Art of Happiness by Dolly and some doctor guy I picked it up and began to read I m about half way through guess I m 50% enlightened and it s really quite good Except for the parts that are stupid or wrong The problem is not so much what the Big D has to say, but the doctor guy s interpretation or ampli...I love the Dalai Lama and everything he says in this book However, Cutler s input mostly detracts from the teachings of the Dalai Lama At best, he makes small, often insignificant links between the Dalai Lama s point and western science Like how he made the connection between Buddhism s idea of training the mind to the scientific idea of plasticity which proves that, indeed, you can train the mind Was that ever really a question though I didn t need to be convinced of that At worst, he I love the Dalai Lama and everything he says in this book However, Cutler s input mostly detracts from the teachings of the Dalai Lama At best, he makes small, often insignificant links between the Dalai Lama s point and western science Like how he made the connection between Buddhism s idea of training the mind to the scientific idea of plasticity which proves that, indeed, you can train the mind Was that ever really a question though I didn t need to be convinced of that At worst, he purposefully makes himself a sitting duck for how not to be and then contrasts his own folly with the wise teachings of the Dalai Lama While real life examples do make the sometimes abstract points of the Dalai Lama seemaccessible, it goes overboard Also, his questions often take the conversation with the Dalai Lama in a completely different, oftenobvious and tiresome, direction than I was hoping With the conversation format, there were great opportunities to enter into int...DNF 15%I mistakenly thought this was a book by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, who is listed as one of the authors or the only authors in some book databases but it is not This book was written by Howard C Cutler, a psychiatrist, who spent one week with the Dalai Lama, and then used his interviews with the Dalai Lama as a basis for this book.Now, once I found out that I was mislead by the book, I still wanted to read on and see what the author had to say Unfortunately, I was quickly put of ...This book always brings me a lot of peace when I read it It calms me down and puts me at ease I actually bought this book for josh but spent a lot of time reading it myself and its very enjoyable remind you about all the little good things in life and about what really matters.I really liked this book It has enough information to open your eyes, but not too much to scare you away The Author, being a psychologist, was able to take the Eastern ideas from the Dalai Lama and compare them to aWestern way of thinking Although I ve seen many of the ideas and thoughts in other books, the Dalai Lama had a way with words that seemed to just click with me, and in the sections that I didn t really understand, Howard Cutler, the author, was able to clarify This book is I really liked this book It has enough information to open your eyes, but not too much to scare you away The Author, being a psychologist, was able to take the Eastern ideas from the Dalai Lama and compare them to aWestern way of thinking Although I ve seen many of the ideas and thoughts in other books, the Dalai Lama had a way with words that seemed to just click with me, and in the sections that I didn t really understand, Howard Cutler, the author, was able to clarify This ...This is a book that has to be read slowly and with determination, with many pauses for looking off into the distance deep in thought It is not BY the Dalai Lama so much as it is about the Dalai Lama, interviews with him, thoughts on his beliefs and practices It took me a long time to get through, but I really enjoyed it I think that if everyone tri...

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21 May 2017

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