Contentment and Happiness

How to find real happiness by developing our inner qualities and cultivating a peaceful mind.

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Building confidence and resilience with joy

Learn to base your confidence on your good motivation instead of what others say and…

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Make every day a miracle

Practical advice on how to create the causes for happiness in our daily lives.

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Who’s responsible for my suffering?

How to create the causes for happiness by changing our perspective and actions.

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Living a happy life: Covid or not

How we can use the pandemic experience in a positive way, to change, develop talents,…

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Creating habits for happiness

How to establish daily habits at home and at work that will lead to greater…

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How to have a happy mind

Happiness comes from internal transformation. How to use Buddhist teachings to change our own motivation…

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It’s not about the money: “Sutta on the Dung B...

How attachment to worldly concerns like fame, gain, and praise are obstacles to spiritual progress.…

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How to be happy without attachment

When we can release our clinging and attachment there is more satisfaction and contentment in…

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Happiness within ourselves

How the mind is the main source of happiness not external situations. Transforming one's perspective…

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The eight pillars of joy

Venerable Thubten Nyima shares the wisdom of His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond…

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What it means to be happy—a talk with young students

Real happiness doesn't come from external things but from developing inner qualities and making the…

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Caught up in consumerism

Acquiring things and going into debt does not fill up the empty hole of dissatisfaction.…

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