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| author | Paul Buetow <paul@buetow.org> | 2025-02-21 11:09:28 +0200 |
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| committer | Paul Buetow <paul@buetow.org> | 2025-02-21 11:09:28 +0200 |
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diff --git a/notes/a-monks-guide-to-happiness.html b/notes/a-monks-guide-to-happiness.html index 320595e5..937d6f0a 100644 --- a/notes/a-monks-guide-to-happiness.html +++ b/notes/a-monks-guide-to-happiness.html @@ -8,11 +8,26 @@ <link rel="stylesheet" href="style-override.css" /> </head> <body> -<h1 style='display: inline'>"A Monk's Guide to Happiness" book notes</h1><br /> +<p class="header"> +<a href="https://foo.zone">Home</a> | <a href="https://codeberg.org/snonux/foo.zone/src/branch/content-md/notes/a-monks-guide-to-happiness.md">Markdown</a> | <a href="gemini://foo.zone/notes/a-monks-guide-to-happiness.gmi">Gemini</a> +</p> +<h1 style='display: inline' id='a-monk-s-guide-to-happiness-book-notes'>"A Monk's Guide to Happiness" book notes</h1><br /> <br /> <span class='quote'>Last updated 21.5.2023</span><br /> <br /> -<h2 style='display: inline'>Understanding Happiness</h2><br /> +<h2 style='display: inline' id='table-of-contents'>Table of Contents</h2><br /> +<br /> +<ul> +<li><a href='#a-monk-s-guide-to-happiness-book-notes'>"A Monk's Guide to Happiness" book notes</a></li> +<li>⇢ <a href='#understanding-happiness'>Understanding Happiness</a></li> +<li>⇢ <a href='#the-role-of-meditation'>The Role of Meditation</a></li> +<li>⇢ <a href='#managing-thoughts-and-emotions'>Managing Thoughts and Emotions</a></li> +<li>⇢ <a href='#practice-and-discipline'>Practice and Discipline</a></li> +<li>⇢ <a href='#perspectives-on-relationships-and-interactions'>Perspectives on Relationships and Interactions</a></li> +<li>⇢ <a href='#reflective-questions'>Reflective Questions</a></li> +<li>⇢ <a href='#miscellaneous-guidelines'>Miscellaneous Guidelines</a></li> +</ul><br /> +<h2 style='display: inline' id='understanding-happiness'>Understanding Happiness</h2><br /> <br /> <ul> <li>Happiness is a skill we can train. </li> @@ -20,7 +35,7 @@ <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='the-role-of-meditation'>The Role of Meditation</h2><br /> <br /> <ul> <li>Meditation is not about clearing your mind. A busy mind has nothing to do with interfering with your meditation.</li> @@ -30,7 +45,7 @@ <li>Have a baseline for time to build up discipline.</li> <li>We don'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='managing-thoughts-and-emotions'>Managing Thoughts and Emotions</h2><br /> <br /> <ul> <li>Our flow of emotions is really just habits. That can be changed through training, e.g., meditation training.</li> @@ -39,7 +54,7 @@ <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> </ul><br /> -<h2 style='display: inline'>Practice and Discipline</h2><br /> +<h2 style='display: inline' id='practice-and-discipline'>Practice and Discipline</h2><br /> <br /> <ul> <li>The importance of habits to practice mindfulness. Bring mindfulness into the daily practice.</li> @@ -49,7 +64,7 @@ <li>Practice staying fully present in an uncomfortable situation and without judgement.</li> <li>Don'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 /> +<h2 style='display: inline' id='perspectives-on-relationships-and-interactions'>Perspectives on Relationships and Interactions</h2><br /> <br /> <ul> <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> @@ -58,7 +73,7 @@ <li>People don'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='reflective-questions'>Reflective Questions</h2><br /> <br /> <ul> <li> Why do I do all the things I do? What do I try to achieve?</li> @@ -67,7 +82,7 @@ <li> What are the real causes of happiness and suffering?</li> <li> What about meditation? How does that address the situation?</li> </ul><br /> -<h2 style='display: inline'>Miscellaneous Guidelines</h2><br /> +<h2 style='display: inline' id='miscellaneous-guidelines'>Miscellaneous Guidelines</h2><br /> <br /> <ul> <li> Posture is important as the mind and body are connected.</li> @@ -83,9 +98,9 @@ <br /> <a class='textlink' href='../'>Back to the main site</a><br /> <p class="footer"> -Generated by <a href="https://codeberg.org/snonux/gemtexter">Gemtexter 2.1.0-release</a> | -served by <a href="https://www.OpenBSD.org">OpenBSD</a>/<a href="https://man.openbsd.org/httpd.8">httpd(8)</a> | -<a href="https://www.foo.zone/site-mirrors.html">Site Mirrors</a> +Generated with <a href="https://codeberg.org/snonux/gemtexter">Gemtexter 3.0.1-develop</a> | +served by <a href="https://www.OpenBSD.org">OpenBSD</a>/<a href="https://man.openbsd.org/relayd.8">relayd(8)</a>+<a href="https://man.openbsd.org/httpd.8">httpd(8)</a> | +<a href="https://foo.zone/site-mirrors.html">Site Mirrors</a> </p> </body> </html> |