Eight Mindful Steps to Happiness: Walking the Buddha's Path
by Henepola Gunaratana
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Author: Henepola GunaratanaEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2001-05-25
ISBN: 0861711769
Number of pages: 288
Publisher: Wisdom Publications
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Book Review: A must have
Summary: 5 Stars
This is truly a wonderful and need to own book. It gives (in plain english) a how to explaination on applying the eight fold path to your life. There are examples of what each step means and how it works in the real world and caring advice on how to deal with setbacks should they occur. Truly a book for beginners and advanced students. My thanks to Bhante henepola Gunaratana for giving us such a wonderful book.
Summary of Eight Mindful Steps to Happiness: Walking the Buddha's Path
In the same engaging style that has endeared him to readers of his bestselling Mindfulness in Plain English, Bhante Gunaratana delves deeply into each step of the Buddha's most profound teaching on bringing an end to suffering: the noble eightfold path. With generous and specific advice, Eight Mindful Steps to Happiness - a Foreword magazine Book of the Year Awards finalist - offers skillful ways to handle anger, find right livelihood, and cultivate loving-friendliness in relationships with parents, children, and partners. It also offers tools to overcome all the mental hindrances that prevent happiness. Whether you are an experienced meditator or someone who's only just beginning to practice mindfulness, this gentle and down-to-earth guide will help you bring the heart of the Buddha's teachings into every aspect of your life.Meditation is like walking toward happiness. And Bhante Henepola Gunaratana is like a tireless bricklayer, constructing a path brick by brick that allows us to make that walk. Without the path, he says, all the walking in the world won't help. Of course, as a Buddhist monk, his blueprint was created long ago in the form of the Buddha's so-called Noble Eightfold Path. In the same clear language that has made his Mindfulness in Plain English a perennial favorite, Eight Mindful Steps to Happiness is his attempt to explain this timeless path of morality, concentration, and wisdom. The gist of the book comes down to the use of the word skillful in the heading of each of the book's chapters. Living well is a skill that takes both practice and understanding. With stories, bulleted summaries, quotes from the sutras, and, most of all, a knack for relating to our everyday concerns, Henepola Gunaratana skillfully teaches us how to refrain from causing others to suffer. This, along with ending our own suffering, leads to happiness. --Brian Bruya
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