Expectedly, we didn’t hesitate for a second to include it in our list of best mindfulness books in history! If people who’ve suffered violently for more than half a century can be happy – why shouldn’t you be? And if they wrote a book teaching you few lessons – could you think of any excuse to not read it? And you can do this by building upon a strong foundation. The one made of the eight pillars of joy: perspective, humility, humor, acceptance, forgiveness, gratitude, compassion, and generosity. You should build your joy upon eight pillars: perspective, humility, humor, acceptance, forgiveness, gratitude, compassion, and generosity.

The 14th Dalai Lama is the spiritual leader of the Tibetan people and a Nobel Peace Prize recipient. Acceptance. This is where the change actually happens. More often than not, you can’t change reality. But you can change your attitude towards it. Now, Tutu isn’t a young man himself: four years older than the Dalai Lama, he was 84 at the time of this visit. At one point during their week-long conversation in Dharamsala, he even makes a joke about this: “You must shorten your answers,” he says to the Dalai Lama, who claims that they have plenty of time. “ I am brief.” Humility– be humble and modest. As John C. Maxwell says wittily: “People with humility don’t think less of themselves; they just think of themselves less.”After a failed uprising and the collapse of the Tibetan resistance movement in 1959, the Dalai Lama left for India, where he was active in establishing the Central Tibetan Administration (the Tibetan Government in Exile) and in seeking to preserve Tibetan culture and education among the thousands of refugees who accompanied him. But because it’s not really about being original and discovering something new. It seems that peace, just like the meaning of life, is fairly conventional.

Now, we don’t really know what Tutu gave the Dalai Lama for his eightieth birthday. Fortunately, we do know what they both gave us afterward: “ The Book of Joy.” Soon after it was published, “The Book of Joy” was predicted to become one of the all-time favorite gift-books – up there, with Dr. Seuss’“Oh, the Places You Will Go” and “ Who Moved My Cheese?” And, of course, the prediction came true: who wouldn’t want to get a book on joy written by two Nobel Peace Prize winners? That’s right – you know them well. Some of them – very well. They are the things which make you suffer – on a daily basis.Rarely you find a text written by not one – but two Nobel Prize winners. In fact, excepting some books or articles written by joint Nobel Prize winners, we’re not even sure that we can think of any other example at the moment. Humor: joking is always better than not joking. Even if it means joking with your own faults. You are certainly not perfect – and that lifts a huge burden off your shoulders. Think about it.

Read for my toddler's bedtime a few too many times. It has a sweet message. This book introduces a little boy growing up in a small house and another little boy living in the big house by the mountain in the monastery. They're worlds apart, yet both feel lonely all the same. They're lonely also because other kids where they grow up don't let them play. The story went on to remind readers that when we sit still we start to see the beauty all around us. The power of attraction is mentioned where if all you think is of sadness then you will only feel sad. So this book asks readers to look around to see that joy is everywhere. It's in the warmth of the sun. It's in the giggly feeling when doing something silly. It's the snuggly feeling of being wrapped up in blankets. Even in the rain, you feel joy when you play in the puddles. Fantastic book. Beautiful illustrations. I highly recommend everyone to read this book!In their only collaboration for children, His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu use their childhood stories to show young people how to find joy even in hard times and why sharing joy with others makes it grow. The two spiritual masters tell a simple story, vibrantly brought to life by bestselling illustrator Rafael López, of how every child has joy inside them, even when it sometimes hides, and how we can find it, keep it close, and grow it by sharing it with the world.

On 17 November 1950, at the age of 15, he was enthroned as Tibet's ruler. Thus he became Tibet's most important political ruler just one month after the People's Republic of China's invasion of Tibet on 7 October 1950. In 1954, he went to Beijing to attempt peace talks with Mao Zedong and other leaders of the PRC. These talks ultimately failed. Fear, stress, and anxiety. ( Feeling nervous?) Frustration and anger. ( Do you want to shout out loud?) Sadness and grief… Despair and loneliness. ( Oh, how bad you want to hug someone right away…) Envy. ( “That guy goes past yet again in his Mercedes-Benz…”) Adversity, illness, fear of death. ( “And, you say, this is ‘The Book of Joy’, ha? Really?”) And, actually, that’s where the book starts: with a bittersweet discussion about the roots of its absence. Namely, mindfulness’ greatest nemeses. The obstacles to Joy. From two Nobel Peace Prize winners, an invitation to look past sadness and loneliness to the joy that surrounds us. Tenzin Gyatso was the fifth of sixteen children born to a farming family. He was proclaimed the tulku (an Enlightened lama who has consciously decided to take rebirth) of the 13th Dalai Lama at the age of two.

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Forgiveness. If you want to live in the present, forgiveness is your best shot at freeing yourself from the past. You’re doing everybody a favor. The Book of Joy Summary explains that there’s nothing strange nor embracing when you are in need of happiness. There are many things which may stand on your way to true joy. Fear, stress, and anxiety – almost on a daily basis. Frustration and anger – every time someone does something you don’t like. Sadness and grief… Despair and loneliness. Feelings which will inevitably come with some great loss. Envy – which makes you want more when you don’t really need it.