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]

Learned Optimism: Martin Seligman

Monday, August 2nd, 2010 at 5:39 am

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Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life

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Martin Seligman, a renowned psychologist and clinical researcher, has been studying optimists and pessimists for 25 years. Pessimists believe that bad events are their fault, will last a long time, and undermine everything. They feel helpless and may sink into depression, which is epidemic today, especially among youths. Optimists, on the other hand, believe that defeat is a temporary setback or a challenge–it doesn’t knock them down. “Pessimism is escapable,” asserts Seligman, by learning a new set of cognitive skills that will enable you to take charge, resist depression, and make[Read More]

Taming the Tiger Within

Monday, August 2nd, 2010 at 2:07 am

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Taming the Tiger Within: Meditations on Transforming Difficult Emotions

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Taming the Tiger Within is a handbook of meditations, analogies, and reflections that offer pragmatic techniques for diffusing anger, converting fear, and cultivating love in every arena of life-a wise and exquisite guide for bringing harmony and healing to one’s life and relationships.

Acclaimed scholar, peace activist, and Buddhist master revered by people of all faiths, Thich Nhat Hanh has inspired millions worldwide with his insight into the human heart and mind. Now he focuses his profound spiritual wisdom on the basic human emotions everyone struggles with on a daily basis.

Zen Is Right Here: Shunryu Suzuki

Sunday, August 1st, 2010 at 3:47 pm

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Zen Is Right Here: Teaching Stories and Anecdotes of Shunryu Suzuki, Author of

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Shunryu Suzuki’s extraordinary gift for conveying traditional Zen teachings using ordinary language is well known to the countless readers of Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind. In Zen Is Right Here, his teachings are brought to life powerfully and directly through stories told about him by his students. These living encounters with Zen are poignant, direct, humorous, paradoxical, and enlightening; and their setting in real-life contexts makes them wonderfully accessible. Like the Buddha himself, Suzuki Roshi gave profound teachings that were skilfully expressed for each moment, person, and situation he encountered. He emphasized that while the ungraspable essence of Buddhism is[Read More]