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Ten Breaths for Happiness
By Glen Schneider The Ten Breath Practice is a simple, concrete way to nourish our seeds of happiness and joy. It involves allowing ourselves to be “caught” by something wonderful during the course of our day: a sight, a sound, a feeling. When this happens, we stop and offer it…
Ten Breaths to Happiness
Zen teacher Glen Schneider has developed a series of simple practices to help us cultivate happiness and fulfillment in the course of our daily lives. Happiness is far more than a positive feeling that comes and goes, happiness is wired into the physiology of our brains. It is a skill…
No Mud, No Lotus
The intimate connection between suffering and happiness
Happy Farm: Rewilding
Healing, Regeneration, and Transformation for the Land: During the COP26 global climate negotiations in Glasgow, Scotland, we shared one way that our community in Plum Village Monastery, France is taking action to contribute to the solutions in this time of climate and ecological emergencies. We offer an update from Mick McEvoy, who manages the regenerative agricultural Happy Farm project.
For a Happy and Abundant Life
By Charlie Turner The evidence from various empirical happiness studies, from psychologists, and from wisdom and religious traditions tells us that consumption beyond a basic level does not lead to much extra happiness. It is not that consumption is bad, but we should not expect much of an impact on…
Feeling Happy, Smiling
I feel happy today Because I am alive. I can smile and laugh. I can be kind, To myself too, With understanding. The sun warms me. The moon and stars shine. The trees and flowers so beautiful, Like loving family and friends. All nurturing. Only need to stop, To look,…
The Miracle of Being Happy
Many miracles happened during our recent North America trip such as being happy, smiling, breathing, seeing our families, contemplating the full moon. The greatest miracle was the joyful and happy energy of the delegation of Plum Village's monks and nuns. We felt like a warm and intimate family. There were twelve of us in the…
Wholesome Boundaries, Happy Communities
By Dennis Bohn My first exposure to the Fourteen Precepts (as they were called at the time) was in a Barnes and Noble bookstore in Cooper Square in New York’s East Village. I read the First Precept, saw “not be idolatrous or bound to any doctrine, theory or ideology, even…
Happy Advocates Will Heal the World
Volunteer gardeners, Wisconsin, photos by Heather Lyn Mann By Heather Lyn Mann “After years of working in conservation and running large programmes that attempted to halt destruction, I find myself in despair about the hopelessness of the task ahead, the lack of care, the ineffectiveness, and the failure. For the…