Praise for Happiness

Praise for Happiness Book Description Who doesn't want to be happy? But we don't know how to find it, how to preserve it, or even how to describe it. Can happiness be defined as something that requires effort, is comforting, and is accessible to everyone? Instead of looking for happiness outside, should we look for it within ourselves? Can happiness be achieved through short-term pleasures? Or is happiness a feeling that evokes compassion and desires the good of other people rather than being personal? If we are truly happy, can we change the world? Can the compassion we feel for people turn into the idea of ending hatred and making happy even the people we don't like? French Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard, who has been proven by neuroscience measurements to be the "happiest man in the world", shares with us the happiness formula he found based on his own unhappiness in this book. While Ricard is a brilliant scientist in the field of molecular biology at one of the most important universities in France, he suddenly leaves everything, packs up all his belongings and goes on a long journey to India and Tibet. This book, which is the result of his search for a solution to his unhappiness, is the road map to achieving happiness for us. And we start by understanding what happiness is… (From the Promotional Bulletin)