Being a teacher in the world of today is a demanding job with lots of challenges, often resulting in stress and burnout. Is there a solution? In the film Happy Teachers Will Change the World, we see Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh sharing the practice of mindfulness with 1,300 teachers…
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Building Happiness from Scratch
By Bas Bruggeman, Han Nguyen, and Felipe Viveros Prayer flags for ancestors, Bhumtang Valley, Bhutan; photos courtesy of Felipe Viveros “Being young today, you have a world to invent. The old world has dead-ended, and a new reality is about to emerge. It is a moment of crisis and transition—full…
Dharma Talk: True Happiness
Good morning, dear Sangha, today is the twenty-third of June, 2005 and we are in the Lovingkindness Temple in the New Hamlet. Happiness is a practice. We should distinguish between happiness and excitement, and even joy. Many people in the West, especially in North America, think of excitement as happiness.…
Understanding Gross National Happiness and the 3 Fundamental Components of Happiness
Author of A Culture of Happiness Dr.Tho Ha Vinh Celebrating the release of A Culture of Happiness, author Tho Ha Vinh answers questions about happiness, the framework used in Bhutan to measure happiness, and tools that readers can use today to cultivate more happiness. Jump to the questions: Happiness can…
Dharma Talk: Community as a Resource
We can make people happy. One person has the capacity...
Happy Veggies (1988 edition)
This is the first edition hardcover of Mayumi Oda's Happy Veggies, published in 1988. Crisp cabbages, crunchy carrots, radiant radishes…. Happy Veggies! Vibrant illustrations of vegetables in the garden by legendary Japanese artist Mayumi Oda will inspire children to see the garden as a life-giving place where they can touch…
Wake Up Schools: Happiness-based Education in Vietnam
Anh-Le Ho-Gia is a lecturer at the National University of Singapore and co-founder of Happiness-based Education Schools. To celebrate the continuation of Thích Nhất Hạnh, Orla and Anh-Le met to share about volition and developing happiness-based education in Central Vietnam.
Happy Teachers will change the World, in Barcelona
Both the teachers and students of today face a lot of challenges, like work load, stress, lack of attention, etc. How to transform the current educational system – and thereby the world? In the film Happy Teachers will change the Word, in Barcelona, we see Zen Master Thich Nhat Hanh…
Dharma Talk: The Habit of Happiness
Upper Hamlet, Plum Village June 19, 2012 Good morning, dear Sangha. Today is Tuesday, the nineteenth of June 2012, and we are in the Still Water Meditation Hall, Upper Hamlet. This is our nineteenth day of the twenty-one-day retreat. Sitting here, I can hear the sound of the rain. I…
Money Doesn’t Guarantee Happiness
by Rachel Tripp When I was eight years old my mother announced to me that we were doing a very unusual thing on summer vacation. She told me that we were going to Stonehill College for a week. I was very worried that it was going to involve math, but…