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courage and resilience and dogged hope in humanity
dialogues were about what the Dalai Lama has
We should have wise selfishness rather than foolish selfishness. Foolish selfishness means you just think only of yourself, don’t care about others, bully others, exploit others.
wise and foolish selfishness
helping others, ultimately is the way to discover your own joy and to have a happy life. So that is what I call wise selfishness.” “You are wise,” the Archbishop said.
3 factors of joy
Even, you see, ten minutes or thirty minutes of meditating on compassion, on kindness for others, and you will see its effects all day. That’s the way to maintain a calm and joyous mind.
Compassion aLl day
In many ways, hedonism is the default philosophy of most people and certainly has become the dominant view of consumer “shop till you drop” culture.
Hedonism
And we flourish in community. When we become
The Dalai Lama waved his hands, dismissing his rank or specialness. “I always consider myself personally one of the seven billion human beings. Nothing special. So, on that level, I have tried to make people aware that the ultimate source of happiness is simply a healthy body and a warm heart.”
Healthy body and a warm heart
Mudita recognizes that life is not a zero-sum game, that there is not just one slice of cake in which someone else’s taking more means we get less. Mudita sees joy as limitless.
Life isnot a zsro zsum game
redemption in our suffering, it can ennoble
our book is part of this important process to help spread the message that love, kindness, and affection are the source of joy and happiness.
So all of us, spiritual brothers and sisters, have a special responsibility, have a special role to make clear that the ultimate source of a meaningful life is within ourselves. If you live in this way, until your last breath comes you will be a happy, happy person. That’s the goal of human life—to live with joy and purpose.”
them another opportunity in this life. The two leaders had told us over the course of the week that there is no joy without sorrow, that in fact it is the pain, the suffering that allows us to experience and appreciate the joy. Indeed,
