The Art of Happiness

Monday, August 2nd, 2010 at 4:52 pm

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Psychiatrist Howard Cutler interviews the Dalai Lama in The Art of Happiness – A Handbook for Living. The talent for happiness, he assures us, is in our nature.Have you ever wondered what it would be like to sit down with the Dalai Lama and really press him about life’s persistent questions? Why are so many people unhappy? How can I abjure loneliness? How can we reduce conflict? Is romantic love true love? Why do we suffer? How should we deal with unfairness and anger? How do you handle the death of a loved one?[Read More]

Sharon Salzberg: Lovingkindness: Art of Happiness

Monday, August 2nd, 2010 at 2:58 pm

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Lovingkindness: The Revolutionary Art of Happiness

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Sharon Salzberg, a meditation teacher and the founder of the Insight Meditation Society in Massachusetts, focuses on a kind of Buddhist practice that emphasizes feelings of love, happiness, and compassion. Metta, or “lovingkindness,” meditation involves four phrases: “May I be free from danger”; “May I have mental happiness”; “May I have physical happiness”; “May I have ease of well-being.” (Some readers will find this surprising, since the most commonly known meditation techniques have little “content”–you simply repeat a single word or phrase, observe your breath, or observe your thoughts as they[Read More]

Simple Abundance, 365 Essays on Comfort & Joy: Breathnach

Friday, June 18th, 2010 at 3:06 pm

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Simple Abundance: A Daybook of Comfort of Joy

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This book features 366 essays penned from a woman’s perspective. Sample topics include gratitude, harmony, self-nurturing, positive body image, the importance of scented linen closets, and many others. Each essay sports a pithy quote from (surprise!) the likes of Kahlil Gibran. Viewed uncritically, it’s hard to argue with Simple Abundance’s earnest admonitions to appreciate life, in all its messy imperfect excellence. And the fact that serenity and happiness are each in dreadfully short supply can excuse some of the treacly writing. But Breathnach sometimes lapses into what can only be described[Read More]