Il gusto di essere felici

Một trong những cuốn sách hay nhất và toàn diện nhất về hạnh phúc. Trước khi tu tập chuyên sâu ở Tây Tạng thì nhà sư Matthieu là một người nghiên cứu khóa học, vậy nên cuốn sách này là một sự tổng hợp hài hòa về triết lí của Đạo phật và những nghiên cứu mới về khoa học hạnh phúc. Mình có đọc nhiều sác Leggi tutto

If i picked up this book earlier in my life , i would have left it unfinished , because I used to think i'm such a happy person. But after being through a lot , picking this book up and reading it couldn't get any better . This book is not addressed only to people suffering from mental illness , it co Leggi tutto

It's hard to write a review about this one. While I liked the general idea that happiness is a skill that can be learned and would agree with it, the book itself doesn't seem to helpful with that. Ricard has an interesting biography, but he seems pretty oblivious how this might have shaped him. In t Leggi tutto

Easily the worst book of the quite thriving buddhist/meditation/happiness subgenre. The guy's a buddhist monk, but he's also french and he used to study at the Pasteur Institute (a fact he repeats ad nauseam) and his dad was a philoso-pha, of the french stock, and he wrote about... those of you who' Leggi tutto

This is the most inspiring book I have read recently. I picked it up when I was feeling depressed and I was starting to get into learning about Buddhist thought. It is amazing and inspiring and I have started to re-read it. I also sent it to my sister who seemed rather down and is "searching" for ha Leggi tutto

My longer term flirtations with buddhism led me to finally try to read a book on this topic. I picked Ricard because of his scientific credentials, he is an ex-molecular biologist gone monk, interfacing now with scientists on studies of meditation. Unfortunately the book didn't really grab me on any Leggi tutto