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-<h1 style='display: inline'>"A Monk&#39;s Guide to Happiness" book notes</h1><br />
+<h1 style='display: inline' id='AMonksGuidetoHappinessbooknotes'>"A Monk&#39;s Guide to Happiness" book notes</h1><br />
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<span class='quote'>Last updated 21.5.2023</span><br />
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-<h2 style='display: inline'>Understanding Happiness</h2><br />
+<h2 style='display: inline' id='UnderstandingHappiness'>Understanding Happiness</h2><br />
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<li>Happiness is a skill we can train. </li>
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<li>Feel free now. No urge about past and future. </li>
<li>We can learn to produce our own happiness independently of physical needs. When we walk in a park, how do we feel? We can train to reproduce that feeling independently. </li>
</ul><br />
-<h2 style='display: inline'>The Role of Meditation</h2><br />
+<h2 style='display: inline' id='TheRoleofMeditation'>The Role of Meditation</h2><br />
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<ul>
<li>Meditation is not about clearing your mind. A busy mind has nothing to do with interfering with your meditation.</li>
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<li>Have a baseline for time to build up discipline.</li>
<li>We don&#39;t need to do anything about stress, just take a step back.</li>
</ul><br />
-<h2 style='display: inline'>Managing Thoughts and Emotions</h2><br />
+<h2 style='display: inline' id='ManagingThoughtsandEmotions'>Managing Thoughts and Emotions</h2><br />
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<li>Our flow of emotions is really just habits. That can be changed through training, e.g., meditation training.</li>
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<li>Thoughts are friends and not enemies. </li>
<li>Thoughts help the meditation as they make us notice that we wandered off, and therefore, we strengthen the reflection.</li>
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-<h2 style='display: inline'>Practice and Discipline</h2><br />
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<li>The importance of habits to practice mindfulness. Bring mindfulness into the daily practice.</li>
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<li>Practice staying fully present in an uncomfortable situation and without judgement.</li>
<li>Don&#39;t become two persons who never meet: the meditator and the not meditator. So integrate mindfulness during the day too.</li>
</ul><br />
-<h2 style='display: inline'>Perspectives on Relationships and Interactions</h2><br />
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<li>Who is the opponent? The other person. The things he said or our reactions to things? Forgiveness is a high form of compassion.</li>
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<li>People don&#39;t have a masterplan to destroy others, even if it seems so. They are under strong bad influence by themselves. Something terrible happened to them. Revenge makes no sense.</li>
<li>Be grateful for people "trying" to hurt you as they help you to practice your path.</li>
</ul><br />
-<h2 style='display: inline'>Reflective Questions</h2><br />
+<h2 style='display: inline' id='ReflectiveQuestions'>Reflective Questions</h2><br />
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<li> Why do I do all the things I do? What do I try to achieve?</li>
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<li> What are the real causes of happiness and suffering?</li>
<li> What about meditation? How does that address the situation?</li>
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-<h2 style='display: inline'>Miscellaneous Guidelines</h2><br />
+<h2 style='display: inline' id='MiscellaneousGuidelines'>Miscellaneous Guidelines</h2><br />
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<li> Posture is important as the mind and body are connected.</li>