Happiness Dalai Lama

In the first part of the book, The Art of Happiness, Dalai Lama, and Howard Cutler convey the message of the purpose of life to the readers. In the first chapter of the book, Dalai Lama mentions that he “believes that the very purpose of the life is to seek happiness” (13). I agree with Dalai Lama’s ideology because I think that everything that a person does is to eventually become happy in life. However, every individual has a different meaning of happiness. For some, happiness means to spend their time idly or foolishly and for others happiness means working hard to eventually become successful one day. Individuals who spend most of their time doing nothing may seek happiness in the current moment but however, eventually these individuals

In this statement, Dalai Lama refers to that a person can be happy if his heart and mind are happy. There is a very famous quote that states that money cannot buy happiness. Even though money is one of the factors that contributes towards happiness, it is not the only element. There is a student in this class whose parents and grandparents are all doctors and are very successful and wealthy. This students’ family wants her to become a doctor as well as they think that she could only be happy if she becomes a doctor. However, this student wants to pursue something else in life and she seeks happiness in some other major. Even though if she does not earn as much money as a doctor will, she would still be much happier in doing what she cherishes. It is evident that an individual seeks happiness by performing things they love as they are doing it from their heart and are not being forced to do it. Therefore, I agree with Dalai Lama’s belief that being happiness is achieved through the training of your heart and

He adds, that all an individual need in order to be happy is “mind, which is all the basic equipment” humans need to achieve “complete happiness” (37). I agree with Dalai Lama’s beliefs as humans compare themselves to other individuals and thus, they forget to appreciate what they have that others do not. Individuals always want to attain what the other person has and thus they start developing a feeling of greed and jealousy. Personally, before taking this class, I could relate to this thought. I was not content with what I had, but I wanted to achieve what other people had. For an instance, if I saw someone with much more money than me, or with a better body that I had, I would develop this feeling of a little hatred towards them as they have what I don’t. However, taking this class and reading the Dalai Lama book have changed my mindset and outlook towards life differently. Now, I believe that the other person is more successful, or have more money because they have worked hard to attain it. This outlook motivates me to work harder to achieve all these things. However, individuals in general do not think like that. They usually think that the “grass is always greener on the other side”. Additionally, as Prather said in a