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From: Happiness - Matthieu Ricard
When a powerful feeling of desire, envy, pride, aggression,
or greed plagues your mind, try to imagine
situations that are sources of peace. Transport yourself
mentally to the shores of a placid lake or to a high
mountaintop overlooking a broad vista. Imagine
yourself sitting serenely, your mind as vast and clear
as a cloudless sky, as calm as a windless ocean.
Experience this calmness. Watch your inner tempests
subside and let this feeling of peace grow anew in
your mind.
Understand that even if your wounds
are deep, they do not touch the essential nature of
your mind, the fundamental luminosity of pure consciousness.
Contents
- Compassion for Yourself and Others
- Happiness and humility
- Happiness and Kindness
- Happiness and Science
- Happiness today - Death tomorrow
- Helpful information
- How to deal with depression
- How to get the best mobile phone for free
- Pema Chödrön: expert on happiness
- Rejection: a different approach
- Spirituality, why bother?
- The Abyss
- The Happy Minds Forum
- The Heart Sutra
- The Maitreya Buddha Project
- The trap in trying to better your life
- Three methods for working with chaos
Exercises
- Exercise 10: Feeling more Compassion
- Exercise 11: Examining causes of Happiness
- Exercise 12: Developing attention
- Exercise 13: Distinguishing happiness from pleasure
- Exercise 14: How to begin to meditate
- Exercise 15: Using Mental Imagery
- Exercise 1: Relativity
- Exercise 2: Realizing what is Happiness
- Exercise 3: Appreciating small things
- Exercise 4: Doing chores
- Exercise 5: Just Enjoy
- Exercise 6: Awakening Compassion
- Exercise 7: Do something Nice
- Exercise 8: Illusions
- Exercise 9: Creating your own Paradise
Sunday, May 10, 2009
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