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Author | Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama and Howard Cutler |
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Language | English |
Genre | Philosophy |
Publisher | Easton Press |
Publication date | 1998 |
Media type | |
ISBN | 1-57322-111-2 |
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LC Class | BQ7935.B774 A78 1998 |
The Art of Happiness (Riverhead, 1998, ISBN 1-57322-111-2) is a book by the 14th Dalai Lama and Howard Cutler, a psychiatrist who posed questions to the Dalai Lama. Cutler quotes the Dalai Lama at length, providing context and describing some details of the settings in which the interviews took place, as well as adding his own reflections on issues raised.[1]
The book explores training the human outlook that alters perception. The concepts that the purpose of life is happiness, that happiness is determined more by the state of one's mind than by one's external conditions, circumstances, or events—at least once one's basic survival needs are met and that happiness can be achieved through the systematic training of our hearts and minds.[2][3]