Book Bearings
The Art of Happiness
- 314 pages · about 5 hours
- First published 1998
- 31 editions
Bookshop.org links may earn us a commission. It supports independent bookstores and costs you nothing.
1 About this book
The Art of Happiness (Riverhead, 1998) is a book by the 14th Dalai Lama and Howard Cutler, a psychiatrist who posed questions to the Dalai Lama. Cutler quotes the Dalai Lama at length, providing context and describing some details of the settings in which the interviews took place, as well as adding his own reflections on issues raised.
The book explores training the human outlook that alters perception. The concepts that the purpose of life is happiness, that happiness is determined more by the state of one's mind than by one's external conditions, circumstances, or events—at least once one's basic survival needs are met and that happiness can be achieved through the systematic training of our hearts and minds.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Good for readers who want: Buddhism, happiness, and spirituality.
- Buddhism
- Happiness
- Religious life, buddhism
- Spirituality
- Buddhism, doctrines
- Doctrines
- Religious life
2 About The Dalai Lama
Bio adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
3 More by The Dalai Lama
4 Similar books
- The Tibetan book of living and dying by Sogyal Rinpoche
- The Places That Scare You by Pema Chödrön
- Zen And the Art of Happiness by Chris Prentiss
- The Things You Can See Only When You Slow Down by Haemin Sunim
- When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chödrön
- Start Where You Are by Pema Chödrön
- Comfortable with Uncertainty by Pema Chödrön
- Zen by Bhagwan Rajneesh