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The Art of Happiness: A Handbook for Living | 
 enlarge | Author: Howard Cutler
Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
Category: Book
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Rating:  350 reviews
Sales Rank: 423929
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Media: Paperback
Edition: New Ed
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Pages: 288
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Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5.1 x 0.9
ISBN: 0340750154
Dewey Decimal Number: 294
EAN: 9780340750155
ASIN: 0340750154
Publication Date: 1999
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 My Number 1 Recommended Book November 13, 2008
This book has the power to transform the reader. I often tell people it holds the 'secret to life.'
This book is based on a dialog between Cutler, a Western psychologist, and His Holiness The Dalai Lama. The connections made between western psychology and eastern beliefs are outstanding.
This is the perfect book for someone interested in The Dalai Lama, Buddhism, psychology, or just finding a better way to live.
You'll feel like you are sitting there in the room with The Dalai Lama yourself...and not wanting to leave.
Skim the parts by Cutler October 18, 2008
The interview format is a good way of presenting the Dalai Lama's philosophy, but the analysis by Cutler is not particularly insightful, nor is it well written. A little commentary about what he felt about or thought of the Dalai Lama's words on a particular subject would be appropriate, but Cutler goes on and on, with examples from his practice and descriptions of studies and articles from Western psychology. If I wanted to read a Western self-help book, I would. I was finding the whole thing tedious until I gave myself permission to skip Cutler's analysis. I also found Cutler's frequent descriptions of the Dalai Lama's demeanor (he chuckled warmly, he smiled serenely, etc.) smarmy and annoying.
Do read the words of the Dalai Lama. As mentioned in other reviews, they are simple but profound. Many times they caused a figurative light bulb to go off over my head, a genuine "wow, I never thought of it that way before." Cutler's contributions are the polar opposite, nothing I haven't heard or read before.
An excellent book for finding inner peace October 9, 2008
I highly reccomend this book to anybody searching for inner peace and happiness and a higher acceptance of all walks of people around us. Reading this book for me was life changing and helped me be more accepting to stressful situations and people around me, decreasing anger and dis-satisfaction significantly. The concept of how we all need each other and are interconnected is very important especially in todays fast paced competetive world. It is a book that I have re-read and reccomended to several people and also given as a gift.
It was great October 2, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I don't mean this in a negative way, but the Dalai Lama is one of the few people in this world who has the luxury of spending his days pondering enlightenment, what it takes to be happy, etc. The result is a book that rocks your world and makes you rediscover what you're after in life.
The best book he's written October 2, 2008
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The Art of Happiness is a classic. It will change how you see your life and everyone around you. Guaranteed.
Through a series of in-depth conversations with the Dalai Lama, and through a number of the Dalai Lama's public addresses, Dr. Cutler explores what Tibetan Buddhism might have to offer to Western conceptions of happiness. Dr. Cutler begins with the Dalai Lama's words on the subject:
"I believe that the very purpose of our life is to seek happiness. That is clear. Whether one believes in religion or not, whether one believes in this religion or that religion, we are all seeking something better in life. So, I think, the very motion of our life is toward happiness..."
As their further conversation reveals, however, Western notions of happiness have become confused with pleasure and the satisfaction of desire. Only by separating happiness from less durable forms of contentment can we truly achieve the happiness that the Dalai Lama believes is the goal of our lives.
Another great book I devoured recently after seeing it had an endorsement from the Dalai Lama is The Emotional Intelligence Quick Book
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