Get to know your own mind and discover how a slight but radical shift can transform your life--a practical Buddhist guide to happiness that's relevant to everyone.
East meets West in a fresh, modern take on a timeless challenge: how to find contentment and meaning in life. A longtime meditator and seasoned Silicon Valley entrepreneur meets a young, insightful, and traditionally educated Tibetan Rinpoche. Together they present a path to radical happiness through accessible meditation and mindfulness techniques. Following three parts, the authors guide readers through Basic Happiness, Interconnected Happiness, and finally Radical Happiness, with each section building on itself to form a complete program. Filled with personal stories, scientific studies, step-by-step exercises, and gorgeous illustrations, this is the perfect guide to meditation and how to easily integrate it into your life. It's a thoughtful exploration of modern science and ancient wisdom--there's no dumbing things down--yet it doesn't take itself too seriously.
Meditation is supposed to be a practice of non-distraction. So what is so magical about the moment you realize you have become distracted?
A Radically Happy Guide to Thriving while hanging with Family during the Holidays
The holidays are supposed to be a time of joyous celebration with extended family and friends. Yet many people dread the family gathering, especially these days where the political divide seems harder than ever to bridge.
We are terrible at happiness forecasting and most situations that make us feel happy contain the seed of future yuckos, now we have to consider if we even know how to really enjoy ourselves?
Okay, I know this sounds weird, and maybe even kind of depressing. But it's flaw #2 in the "Looking for Happiness Conundrum" that we discuss in our otherwise Radically Happy book.
Bill was a fisherman who found he could make a lot more money smuggling weed from Thailand than by fishing. When he started out, he was a peace-and-love guy, but as the smuggling became more and more successful he started becoming quite paranoid and reckless, and he also started carrying guns. Now, though, he felt that prison likely saved him from a much worse fate. Nevertheless, as you might imagine, a few pesky thoughts still gnawed at Bill.
People often ask me what my secret was for being able to help so many people in such a short amount of time after the disastrous Nepal earthquake in 2015. It is true that before the government and the aid agencies stepped in, we were able to provide tarps and food in the villages that were severely hit.
In today’s hyper-polarized world, there seems to be a lot of questions about how to negotiate table when your Uncle Bob is emphatically espousing his latest conspiracy theory.