Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life's Most Important Skill
The Buddha in Your Mirror: Practical Buddhism and the Search for Self
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I’m reading a wonderful book by the French Buddhist monk, Matthieu Ricard. He muses on the subject of happiness, and a book he later wrote on the subject: he captures it well: “My book was to be a work of interdisciplinary synthesis, taking into account the views of great thinkers of the past, in the West as in the East, as well as research on “wel
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Neither wealth, status, fame nor beauty can assure us of a happy life. This is because happiness based on these things is relative happiness. It is dependent, circumstantial and temporary. Whoever strives to construct a happy life based on wealth, status, fame or beauty will eventually encounter dissatisfaction, loss and unhappiness. Instead, Buddh
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