Happiness

Differentiating the Various Aspects of Feelings Adjusting the ten mental factors is an effective means for increasing attentiveness to problems and for enhancing the intention to respond. Several factors, however, may still hamper this response. One of the more troublesome is...

Ways we can make our lives happier.

World peace begins with finding inner peace through warm-hearted relations with others.

Secular ethics, based on universal values such as warm-heartedness, is the key to happiness.

Verses 11 through 14 Verse 11: Living Happily without Unease or Attachments How to Act When We Meet People Even When We Are Living in Seclusion Let me rid myself of hostility and uneasy mental states, and go happily everywhere. Here, Atisha is continuing the discussion...

Life goes much more smoothly when we don't make a big deal out of the everyday ups and downs that occur.

Genuine happiness and satisfaction come from within, from compassion and human affection.

To overcome information addiction, we need to recognize the stress it causes us and, with determination to be free of it, follow a healthy strategy to better manage our digital life.

Review: Precious Human Life We have been going through the lam-rim graded stages of the path from the point of view of how they help us to develop a healthy sense of self. We have seen how thinking about the precious human rebirth and realizing how fortunate we actually are...

Feelings as Having the Four Aspects of True Suffering As we have seen, the four aspects of true suffering also apply to feelings. All feelings – happiness, unhappiness and neutral – are nonstatic, miserable, devoid of a coarse “me” experiencing them and lack a subtle “me”...