Nearly every time you see him, he's laughing, or at least he's smiling.
And he makes everyone else around him feel like smiling. He's the Dalai
Lama, the spiritual and temporal leader of Tibet, the Nobel Prize
winner, and increasingly popular speaker and statesman. Why is he so
popular? Even after spending just a few minutes in his presence you
can't help feeling just a little bit happier.
The Dalai Lama is probably one of the only people in the world who if
you ask him if he's happy, even though he's suffered the loss of his
country, will give you an unconditional yes. What's more, he'll tell you
that happiness is the purpose of life, and that the very motion of our
life is towards happiness. How to get there has always been the
question. He's tried to answer it before, but he's never had the help of
a psychiatrist to get the message across in a context we can easily
understand.
Through meditations, stories and the meeting of Buddhism and psychology,
the Dalai Lama shows us how to defeat day-to-day depression, anxiety,
anger, jealousy, or just an ordinary bad mood. He discusses
relationships, health, family, work, and spirituality to show us how to
ride through life's obstacles on a deep abiding source of inner peace.
Based on 2500 years of Buddhist meditations mixed with a healthy dose of
common sense, The Art of Happiness is an audiobook that crosses the
boundaries of all traditions to help listeners with the difficulties
common to all human beings.
