The Book of Joy
Lasting Happiness in a Changing World
(Sprache: Englisch)
An instant New York Times bestseller
Two spiritual giants. Five days. One timeless question.
Nobel Peace Prize Laureates His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu have survived more than fifty years of exile and the soul-crushing...
Two spiritual giants. Five days. One timeless question.
Nobel Peace Prize Laureates His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu have survived more than fifty years of exile and the soul-crushing...
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An instant New York Times bestsellerTwo spiritual giants. Five days. One timeless question.
Nobel Peace Prize Laureates His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu have survived more than fifty years of exile and the soul-crushing violence of oppression. Despite their hardships-or, as they would say, because of them-they are two of the most joyful people on the planet.
In April 2015, Archbishop Tutu traveled to the Dalai Lama's home in Dharamsala, India, to celebrate His Holiness's eightieth birthday and to create what they hoped would be a gift for others. They looked back on their long lives to answer a single burning question: How do we find joy in the face of life's inevitable suffering?
They traded intimate stories, teased each other continually, and shared their spiritual practices. By the end of a week filled with laughter and punctuated with tears, these two global heroes had stared into the abyss and despair of our time and revealed how to live a life brimming with joy.
This book offers us a rare opportunity to experience their astonishing and unprecendented week together, from the first embrace to the final good-bye.
We get to listen as they explore the Nature of True Joy and confront each of the Obstacles of Joy-from fear, stress, and anger to grief, illness, and death. They then offer us the Eight Pillars of Joy, which provide the foundation for lasting happiness. Throughout, they include stories, wisdom, and science. Finally, they share their daily Joy Practices that anchor their own emotional and spiritual lives.
The Archbishop has never claimed sainthood, and the Dalai Lama considers himself a simple monk. In this unique collaboration, they offer us the reflection of real lives filled with pain and turmoil in the midst of which they have been able to discover a level of peace, of courage, and of joy to which we can all aspire in our own lives.
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Is joy a feeling that comes and surprises us, or is it a more dependable way of being? I asked. For the two of you, joy seems to be something much more enduring. Your spiritual practice hasn t made you somber and serious. It s made you more joyful. So how can people cultivate that sense of joy as a way of being, and not just a temporary feeling? The Archbishop and the Dalai Lama looked at each other and the Archbishop gestured to the Dalai Lama. The Dalai Lama squeezed the Archbishop s hand and began. Yes, it is true. Joy is something different from happiness. When I use the word happiness, in a sense I mean satisfaction. Sometimes we have a painful experience, but that experience, as you ve said with birth, can bring great satisfaction and joyfulness.
Let me ask you, the Archbishop jumped in. You ve been in exile fifty-what years?
Fifty-six.
Fifty-six years from a country that you love more than anything else. Why are you not morose?
Morose? the Dalai Lama asked, not understanding the word. As Jinpa hurried to translate morose into Tibetan, the Archbishop clarified, Sad.
The Dalai Lama took the Archbishop s hand in his, as if comforting him while reviewing these painful events. The Dalai Lama s storied discovery as the reincarnation of the Dalai Lama meant
that at the age of two, he was swept away from his rural home in the Amdo province of eastern Tibet to the one-thousand-room Potala Palace in the capital city of Lhasa. There he was raised in opulent isolation as the future spiritual and political leader of Tibet and as a godlike incarnation of the Bodhisattva of Compassion. After the Chinese invasion of Tibet in 1950, the Dalai Lama was thrust into politics. At the age of fifteen he found himself the ruler of six million people and facing an all-out and desperately unequal war. For nine years he tried to negotiate with Communist China for his people s welfare, and sought political solutions as the country came to be
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annexed. In 1959, during an uprising that risked resulting in a massacre, the Dalai Lama decided, with a heavy heart, to go into exile. The odds of successfully escaping to India were frighteningly small, but to avoid a confrontation and a bloodbath, he left in the night dressed as a palace guard. He had to take off his recognizable glasses, and his blurred vision must have heightened his sense of fear and uncertainty as the escape party snuck by garrisons of the People s Liberation Army. They endured sandstorms and snowstorms as they summited nineteen-thousand-foot mountain peaks during their three-week escape.
One of my practices comes from an ancient Indian teacher, the Dalai Lama began answering the Archbishop s question. He taught that when you experience some tragic situation, think about it. If there s no way to overcome the tragedy, then there is no use worrying too much. So I practice that. The Dalai Lama was referring to the eighth-century Buddhist master Shantideva, who wrote, If something can be done about the situation, what need is there for dejection? And if nothing can be done about it, what use is there for being dejected?
The Archbishop cackled, perhaps because it seemed almost too incredible that someone could stop worrying just because it was pointless.
Yes, but I think people know it with their head. He touched both index fingers to his scalp. You know, that it doesn t help worrying. But they still worry.
Many of us have become refugees, the Dalai Lama tried to explain, and there are a lot of difficulties in my own country. When I look only at that, he said, cupping his hands
One of my practices comes from an ancient Indian teacher, the Dalai Lama began answering the Archbishop s question. He taught that when you experience some tragic situation, think about it. If there s no way to overcome the tragedy, then there is no use worrying too much. So I practice that. The Dalai Lama was referring to the eighth-century Buddhist master Shantideva, who wrote, If something can be done about the situation, what need is there for dejection? And if nothing can be done about it, what use is there for being dejected?
The Archbishop cackled, perhaps because it seemed almost too incredible that someone could stop worrying just because it was pointless.
Yes, but I think people know it with their head. He touched both index fingers to his scalp. You know, that it doesn t help worrying. But they still worry.
Many of us have become refugees, the Dalai Lama tried to explain, and there are a lot of difficulties in my own country. When I look only at that, he said, cupping his hands
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Autoren-Porträt von Dalai Lama XIV., Desmond Tutu, Douglas C. Abrams
His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu with Douglas Abrams
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autoren: Dalai Lama XIV. , Desmond Tutu , Douglas C. Abrams
- 2016, 384 Seiten, mit Schwarz-Weiß-Abbildungen, Maße: 14,1 x 21,5 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Avery
- ISBN-10: 0399185046
- ISBN-13: 9780399185045
- Erscheinungsdatum: 02.02.2017
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
Winner of the 2016 Books for a Better Life Award in SpiritualityThe question may be timeless, but their answer has urgent significance.
Time Magazine
"[An] exquisite book...An intimate glimpse into the minds of two of the world's spiritual guides, and their foundation for an attainable and practical approach to experiencing a more enriching and sustainable life of abundant joy."
Shelf Awareness
"This sparkling, wise, and immediately useful gift to readers from two remarkable spiritual masters offers hope that joy is possible for everyone even in the most difficult circumstances, and describes a clear path for attaining it."
Publishers Weekly
"The world needs joy and compassion more than ever before and who better than Archbishop Tutu and the Dalai Lama to show us how it is done. This beautiful book takes us on the journey of their friendship and gives us the gift of their wisdom. A bright spot of hope and love in this world."
Sir Richard Branson
"It's a book that transports you deep within the intimate friendship that binds these two incredible souls. And it s a book that vividly probes the very nature of joy itself the illusions that eclipse it, the obstacles that obscure it, the practices that cultivate it, and the pillars that sustain it."
Rich Roll, The Rich Roll Podcast
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