Genuine Happiness, B. Alan Wallace
Genuine Happiness, B. Alan Wallace
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Genuine Happiness
Meditation as the Path to Fulfillment

Author: B. Alan Wallace, Dalai Lama

Narrator: Basil Sands

Unabridged: 9 hr 31 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/23/2020


Synopsis

In today's overstimulated world, many are realizing that happiness gained through material wealth and frivolous conquests is short-lived. To achieve long-term happiness, you must access your own bountiful resourceshoused in your heart and mind. In Genuine Happiness, longtime Buddhist practitioner Alan Wallace shows you the path to bliss.Drawing on more than three decades of study under His Holiness the Dalai Lama and sixty other teachers, as well as 2,500 years of Buddhist tradition, Alan Wallace guides you step by step through five simple yet powerful meditations to help you focus your mind and open your heart to true happiness. Featuring a foreword by the Dalai Lama, this book will help you discover that it is possible to experience genuine happiness every day.As you incorporate the meditations from Genuine Happiness into your life, you will discover that the joy you've sought has always been only a few meditative minutes away.

About B. Alan Wallace

B. Alan Wallace has authored, translated, edited, and contributed to more than forty books on Tibetan Buddhism, science, and culture. With fourteen years as a Buddhist monk, he earned a BA in physics and the philosophy of science and then a PhD in religious studies. After teaching in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara, he founded the Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies to explore the integration of scientific approaches and contemplative methods.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Yolanda

I need to read it again. Some parts are inspiring, others seems science fiction. But i love sf, so I enjoyed them too. Lets see where all of this contemplative - science working together goes.........more

A sequência prática/contemplação/prática.... dos capítulos deixa meio maçante a leitura. Também achei a edição mal traduzida. Passando por cima disso, os ensinamentos pescados no decorrer do livro são valiosos pra quem quer transformar a meditação em um hábito. Se você for leigo no budismo também pod......more

Goodreads review by Peter

This book has good instructions for a meditation practice. There is a lot of supernatural beliefs presented here that only are believable for Vajyriana Buddhists.......more

Goodreads review by Cicero

Bom, legal.......more