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pelevolcana 's review for:
The Art of Happiness
by Dalai Lama XIV
This is a great book to listen to (I got the audiobook).
The coauthor, Howard C. Cutler, decided to see if he could present the Dalai Lama's teachings in a way accessible to a non-Buddhist audience. The result, a series of conversations he had with His Holiness, organized by theme, is tremendous.
The Dalai Lama is known for being a religious leader who doesn't care what your religion is, or even if you have one, just that you treat your fellow human beings with kindness and compassion and try to know yourself. His discussions reveal him to be someone that you could imagine sharing a cup of coffee with. He is very down to earth and understands human nature very well.
Most interesting to me was his commentary on the notion of self-hatred, something he'd never encountered outside of the west. The idea that this tendency may not be a part of the universal human experience but rather a culturally learned trait is fascinating
The coauthor, Howard C. Cutler, decided to see if he could present the Dalai Lama's teachings in a way accessible to a non-Buddhist audience. The result, a series of conversations he had with His Holiness, organized by theme, is tremendous.
The Dalai Lama is known for being a religious leader who doesn't care what your religion is, or even if you have one, just that you treat your fellow human beings with kindness and compassion and try to know yourself. His discussions reveal him to be someone that you could imagine sharing a cup of coffee with. He is very down to earth and understands human nature very well.
Most interesting to me was his commentary on the notion of self-hatred, something he'd never encountered outside of the west. The idea that this tendency may not be a part of the universal human experience but rather a culturally learned trait is fascinating