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Buddhism & happiness

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It’s Easier Than You Think: The Buddhist Way to Happiness

Using delightful and deceptively powerful stories from everyday experiences, beloved Buddhist teacher Sylvia Boorstein demystifies spirituality, charts the path to happiness through the Buddha’s basic teachings, shows how to eliminate hindrances to clear seeing, and develops a realistic course...

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Excursions into the Thought-World of the Pali Discourses

For those who approach Buddhism as a system of mental development, this book is a reliable and accessible guide to understanding the significance of themes from the Pali discourses. Themes include grasping, right view, craving, passion, contemplation of feeling, happiness, and liberation.

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Lasting Happiness

It’s surprisingly easy to achieve lasting happiness — we just have to understand our own basic nature. The hard part, says Mingyur Rinpoche, is getting over our bad habit of seeking happiness in transient experiences.

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FindCenterit is impossible to build one’s own happiness on the unhappiness of others. This perspective is at the heart of Buddhist teachings.

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Ask the Teachers: Is Happiness Really the Central Goal of Buddhist Practice?

Question: Buddhist teachers, including the Dalai Lama, often speak of happiness as a goal (if not the goal) of Buddhist practice. I don’t begrudge anyone happiness, but making it so central to spiritual life feels self-serving. Am I misunderstanding what’s meant by “happiness”?

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Loving Life, Loving-Kindness | by Ajahn Brahm | 20 Feb 2009

Ajahn Brahm gives an uplifting talk on developing a love of life through developing loving-kindness (metta).

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Good Karma: How to Create the Causes of Happiness and Avoid the Causes of Suffering

Lojong, or “mind-training,” is a practice that has gained astonishing popularly in recent years—because it works in transforming hearts and minds.

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Peeling Away the Promise of Desire

We may call it different names—peace, or awakening, or enlightenment, even love—but what most of us are looking for is happiness: deep, abiding fulfillment and completion. The problem is that we’re looking for it in the wrong place.

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Creating Habits for Happiness | Thubten Chodron

Thubten Chodron is a Tibetan Buddhist nun, prolific author, and world renowned teacher. She is the founder and abbess of Sravasti Abbey, and co-author of a book with His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Want to be happy? Join Venerable Thubten Chodron to learn how.

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The Big Questions: How to Find Your Own Answers to Life’s Essential Mysteries

The best-selling author of Awakening the Buddha Within addresses life's most provocative and tantalizing questions simply, directly, and powerfully. Every life is a journey through the unknown. Along the way, however, we tend to encounter the same perplexing questions again and again.

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