The Book of Joy

available for each moment and each person we encounter, untethered by the ruminating memories of the past a ...

T matter that he was a great spiritual leader, the former head of the Tibetan nation, and the reincarnation of ...

We have to live together. In order to live happily, we must respect each other’s traditions. I really ...

“Okay. As I was saying, do you really think that when—I didn’t say if; I said when—the Dalai Lama arri ...

populated place in the world. “Everybody wants a happy life—and our individual happy life depends on a happ ...

“Everybody may want to be happy,” I offered, “but the challenge is a lot of people don’t know how. Yo ...

kangaroo pouch. My wife Leah and I are patrons of a children’s hospital in Cape Town, and one day we wer ...

saved our daughter’s life and that allows us all to survive. “Oh, lovely,” the Archbishop said, imagining ...

among parents—‘my children, my children.’ That’s biased love. We need unbiased love toward entire humanity, ...

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Days 2 and 3 The Obstacles to Joy ...

I You Are a Masterpiece in the Making t is very simple,” the Dalai Lama began. “Everyone knows that physi ...

disturbances, small problems will cause you much pain and suffering. You will have much fear and w ...

more intense, he argued, by the glue of guilt and shame when we think we should not have them. The D ...

The first step is to accept the reality of suffering. The Buddha is supposed to have said, “I have taugh ...

Dharamsala, and we went to prepare for the April visit. Our return flight from the cloud-covered Dharamsala airpo ...

have done something in the past that this person didn’t like. So then when you realize your own par ...

had shoved the plane from the side. Then the plane made a sweeping turn and sometime later the crew ...

to be good, to learn to be more loving, to learn to be more compassionate. And you learn, not theoretically ...

W Fear, Stress, and Anxiety: I Would Be Very Nervous e all have fears,” the Archbishop explained. “Fear and a ...