Genuine Happiness
Meditation as the Path to Fulfillment
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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 resources - housed 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 60 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.
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5 out of 5 stars
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incredible pith instructions.
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5 out of 5 stars
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- Caitlin
- 08-18-23
Boring and unhelpful, save your credit
I struggled to get through this book without tuning large chunks of it out, which is a shame. It gets way too distracted with anecdotal stories that do little to propel the overall narrative and the narrator's tone and inflections leave much to be desired. The section on dream yoga was a drag and could've been a third as long and more impactful with proper editing. I wanted to like this book, but it definitely fell very flat. Again, a downright shame.
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