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diff --git a/gemfeed/2025-06-07-a-monks-guide-to-happiness-book-notes.gmi b/gemfeed/2025-06-07-a-monks-guide-to-happiness-book-notes.gmi index 4653ab7a..08bbb6af 100644 --- a/gemfeed/2025-06-07-a-monks-guide-to-happiness-book-notes.gmi +++ b/gemfeed/2025-06-07-a-monks-guide-to-happiness-book-notes.gmi @@ -58,20 +58,20 @@ These are my personal book notes from Gelong Thubten's "A Monk's Guide to Happin ## Reflective Questions -* Why do I do all the things I do? What do I try to achieve? -* What am I doing about that? -* Is it working? -* What are the real causes of happiness and suffering? -* What about meditation? How does that address the situation? +* Why do I do all the things I do? What do I try to achieve? +* What am I doing about that? +* Is it working? +* What are the real causes of happiness and suffering? +* What about meditation? How does that address the situation? ## Miscellaneous Guidelines -* Posture is important as the mind and body are connected. -* Don't use music, so you don't rely on music to change your state of mind. Similar regular guided meditation. Guided meditation is good for learning a technique, but you should not rely on another voice. -* You are not trying to relax. Relaxing and trying are two different things. -* When you love everything, even the bad things happening to you, then you are invincible. -* Happiness is all in your mind. As if you flip a switch there. -* Digging for answers will never end. It will always cause more material to dig. +* Posture is important as the mind and body are connected. +* Don't use music, so you don't rely on music to change your state of mind. Similar regular guided meditation. Guided meditation is good for learning a technique, but you should not rely on another voice. +* You are not trying to relax. Relaxing and trying are two different things. +* When you love everything, even the bad things happening to you, then you are invincible. +* Happiness is all in your mind. As if you flip a switch there. +* Digging for answers will never end. It will always cause more material to dig. If happiness is a mental issue. Clearly, the best time is spent training your mind in your free time and don't always be busy with other things. E.g. meditation, or think about the benefits of meditation. All that we do in our free time is search for happiness. Are the things we do actually working? There is always something around the corner... @@ -79,16 +79,16 @@ E-Mail your comments to `paul@nospam.buetow.org` :-) Other book notes of mine are: -=> ./2025-11-02-the-courage-to-be-disliked-book-notes.gmi 2025-11-02 "The Courage To Be Disliked" book notes -=> ./2025-06-07-a-monks-guide-to-happiness-book-notes.gmi 2025-06-07 "A Monk's Guide to Happiness" book notes (You are currently reading this) -=> ./2025-04-19-when-book-notes.gmi 2025-04-19 "When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing" book notes -=> ./2024-10-24-staff-engineer-book-notes.gmi 2024-10-24 "Staff Engineer" book notes -=> ./2024-07-07-the-stoic-challenge-book-notes.gmi 2024-07-07 "The Stoic Challenge" book notes -=> ./2024-05-01-slow-productivity-book-notes.gmi 2024-05-01 "Slow Productivity" book notes -=> ./2023-11-11-mind-management-book-notes.gmi 2023-11-11 "Mind Management" book notes -=> ./2023-07-17-career-guide-and-soft-skills-book-notes.gmi 2023-07-17 "Software Developers Career Guide and Soft Skills" book notes -=> ./2023-05-06-the-obstacle-is-the-way-book-notes.gmi 2023-05-06 "The Obstacle is the Way" book notes -=> ./2023-04-01-never-split-the-difference-book-notes.gmi 2023-04-01 "Never split the difference" book notes -=> ./2023-03-16-the-pragmatic-programmer-book-notes.gmi 2023-03-16 "The Pragmatic Programmer" book notes +=> ./2025-11-02-the-courage-to-be-disliked-book-notes.gmi 2025-11-02 'The Courage To Be Disliked' book notes +=> ./2025-06-07-a-monks-guide-to-happiness-book-notes.gmi 2025-06-07 'A Monk's Guide to Happiness' book notes (You are currently reading this) +=> ./2025-04-19-when-book-notes.gmi 2025-04-19 'When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing' book notes +=> ./2024-10-24-staff-engineer-book-notes.gmi 2024-10-24 'Staff Engineer' book notes +=> ./2024-07-07-the-stoic-challenge-book-notes.gmi 2024-07-07 'The Stoic Challenge' book notes +=> ./2024-05-01-slow-productivity-book-notes.gmi 2024-05-01 'Slow Productivity' book notes +=> ./2023-11-11-mind-management-book-notes.gmi 2023-11-11 'Mind Management' book notes +=> ./2023-07-17-career-guide-and-soft-skills-book-notes.gmi 2023-07-17 'Software Developers Career Guide and Soft Skills' book notes +=> ./2023-05-06-the-obstacle-is-the-way-book-notes.gmi 2023-05-06 'The Obstacle is the Way' book notes +=> ./2023-04-01-never-split-the-difference-book-notes.gmi 2023-04-01 'Never split the difference' book notes +=> ./2023-03-16-the-pragmatic-programmer-book-notes.gmi 2023-03-16 'The Pragmatic Programmer' book notes => ../ Back to the main site |