Being Happy as a Profound Form of Altruism
Posted by George Shears | Filed under Spiritual Development, Uncategorized
The following article by Bodhipaksa shows that we offer a great service to others and to humanity in general by cultivating the art of happiness:
“ Saddhamala wrote the other dayabout how we “catch” emotions from others. As she points out, this happens when you’re hanging around someone who is negative, and it brings you down, and that it even happens when we watch a movie!”
(Read the entire article HERE.)
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It aims to include a distillation of what I have personally learned in theses regards, along with the collective wisdom of many others.