The Book of Joy

negative. You’ve transmuted it into goodness. Because, again, you have not said, ‘Well how can I be happy?’ ...

A Nothing Beautiful Comes Without Some Suffering rchbishop, you were talking about how the Dalai Lama has experi ...

While the racist apartheid government in South Africa imprisoned Nelson Mandela and so many other political l ...

T • • • here was deep truth in what the Archbishop was saying, and yet I wanted to repeat b ...

this. Look at all the many others, and there may be some who are in greater pain. It’s like being put i ...

T “You are wise,” the Archbishop said. “I wouldn’t just say wise selfish. You are wise.” • • ...

we get accustomed to any new situation and inevitably return to our general state of happiness. However, more r ...

M Have You Renounced Pleasure? ost religions have a strong conviction that we cannot discover lasting happiness ...

following how anyone could not be attached to one’s food. “Not eating out of greed,” the Dalai Lama explai ...

“Over the last several years, I have discussed with scientists this distinction between the sensory level of ...

S for others. Even, you see, ten minutes or thirty minutes of meditating on compassion, on kindness for others, and ...

Francisco, has drawn together the neuroimaging research into a unified theory of the happy brain. I was ...

turned on or off, Bargh argues, is one interesting example that cooperation is a deep evolutionary drive tha ...

I Our Greatest Joy addressed the next question to the Archbishop. “The joy that you are talking about is no ...

profound complementarity. It is the nature of things. You don’t have to be a believer in anything. I m ...

W “As you just mentioned,” the Dalai Lama added, getting quite animated, “people think about money or fame ...

is physical or mental, it seems to consume all of our focus and leave very little attention for others. In his ...

shared his experience each morning. “I think if you are an intensely religious believer, as soon as you wa ...

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T Lunch: The Meeting of Two Mischievous People Is Wonderful he Dalai Lama’s audience room had been transforme ...