Bodhipaksa Offers Five Ways to Increase Your Joy
Posted by George Shears | Filed under Spiritual Development
In the following article, Bodhipaksa offers an impressive array of skillful ways to increase our levels of joy and happiness:
“Joy (sukha in Pali) should be our natural state of being. Unfortunately, though, we’ve been brought up in a society that emphasizes wanting things and having things. Wanting things actually destroys joy, while having things brings only a short-term burst of pleasure that fades quickly.”
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Read the entire article HERE.
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This blog has been created as a resource to all people who are dedicated to increasing happiness and to decreasing suffering in their lives--and in the world--by learning how to live more wisely and skillfully.It aims to include a distillation of what I have personally learned in theses regards, along with the collective wisdom of many others.