Thubten's expertise lies in teaching meditation and he's introduced mindfulness and calm into the lives of many. The _ga cookie, installed by Google Analytics, calculates visitor, session and campaign data and also keeps track of site usage for the site's analytics report. Reading A Monk’s Guide to Happiness could revolutionize your relationship with your thoughts and emotions, and help you create a life of true happiness and contentment. Overall a great book for beginners although there's valuable information here and if you read the whole thing I would think almost anyone could benefit from the information.

There are plenty of exercises throughout the book, again though, they aren't anything fancy, but certainly practical in our busy lifestyles. In this profound and inspiring book, Gelong Thubten shares a practical and sustainable approach to happiness. He's taught everywhere from law firms and banks to schools and prisons; he will teach you how to choose happiness and mental calm.Thubten is able to explain meditation using clear language and an approach which really speaks to our modern tech-infused lives. Mick Brown ― Journalist for The Daily Telegraph --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition. That all being said, I am much happier using his meditation advice and instruction as a helping hand rather than a prescription for meditation success, as I much prefer the methods I am currently using.

But as we evolve we give ourselves more opportunity and excuses to be distracted, anxious, threatened and angry with the various thoughts and actions that accompany such feelings. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.If we are not training our mind, the very fundament of our universe (because our whole world is how we perceive the world! The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. A Monk’s Guide to Happiness explores the nature of happiness and helps bust the myth that our lives and minds are too busy for meditation.

In his youth he tried to find it through living a wild and extreme lifestyle as an actor in New York. Exprima foarte multă serenitate,parca însăși in momentul citirii acesteia puteam sa simt calmitatea, pe care-ncerca autorul s-o inducă cititorului. Niekoľko rokov strávil v škótskom kláštore, kde spoznal mnohých iných pôvodných obchodníkov, lekárov, právnikov a intelektuálov, potýkajúcich sa s nástrahami moderného sveta. Our desires are stoked by advertising, social media and other aspects of our modern consumer culture, while the tendency to seek pleasure externally eventually becomes a mental habit.

Gelong Thubten, Buddhist monk, meditation teacher and author, has always been fascinated by the question of happiness.