The Art of Being Happy - Buddha's Guide To Modern Living
Peace comes from within. Do not seek outside. ~ Buddha
Unlock ancient secrets for modern happiness with The Art of Being Happy.
Straight from the tranquil Jethavanarama Buddhist Monastery, Sri Lanka, this podcast offers simple, practical insights drawn from timeless Buddhist wisdom.
Learn to navigate life's challenges, reduce stress, and discover lasting joy in everyday moments with this talk series.
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Episodes
38 episodes
Stop Settling. Start Impacting.
Being born human is an extraordinary opportunity, yet so much of our existence is spent navigating life on autopilot. While difficulty and circumstance are inevitable, settling for passive suffering is never required. True humanness begins the ...
Escape the Mind's Cage
You are not the architect of your desires; you are the blueprint of your surroundings. From the habits you repeat to the thoughts that drift through your head, your mind is constantly being sculpted by the invisible hands of your environment. T...
Joy Lives Within You
We often think things outside of us make us happy. But objects, places, and even people change over time. When we rely on the outside world for joy, our happiness comes and goes just as quickly as those things change. Real happiness...
Rich Minds Need Nothing
Taming the mind to relinquish desire does not mean living in a void; it means breaking the exhausting cycle of fleeting highs and inevitable lows. When you cease being a hostage to your wants, you reclaim the ultimate power: absolute freedom of...
Home Shapes the Soul
Children mirror the environment you create. While it is natural to use punishment out of love to guide them, true discipline avoids inflicting mutual suffering. Instead of imposing external consequences, focus on cultivating their innate discer...
Craving the Prize or the Chase?
We rarely desire things for what they truly are; we desire them for how easily they can slip away. Human psychology is hardwired to equate scarcity with value. When an object or person is securely ours, the mind settles into comfortable indiffe...
Shift Perception, Find Joy
Every experience you have is just a series of fleeting mind moments, arising and passing away like waves on the shore. Suffering only takes root when we try to grasp these passing waves, forgetting that attachment is an optional anchor we choos...
Is Uniqueness the Truth or An Illusion?
You like to stand out from the crowd; you practically strive to identify yourself unique. So, what happens in the circumstances you can't identify yourself as unique anymore? Trying to be identified as unique at all times is nothing but your mi...
True Happiness Starts Within
Happiness is nothing but a state of mind, which is free from suffering. Start thinking beyond “I”, “Me” and “Mine” and stop internalising the pain that you feel due to external objects, people and circumstances. Unless you can objectify sufferi...
Becoming a True Buddhist
The core of Buddhist philosophy is how much you have transformed from being a person who suffer to a person who doesn't. If you still suffer, your inner transformation is yet to be complete. If you don't know what to do when you suffer, you hav...
The Attitude of Abundance
All the time, you are reminded of the past; all the time, you are worried about the future. In turn, all the time, you suffer, knowingly or unknowingly. But, is human life all about suffering? No, it’s actually a lease of life, an opportunity g...
Re-evaluate & Relearn How to Work with Nature
Nature is all you have; it's your home, and you need to learn to live peacefully at home. Every encounter you have with nature, you need to ask what you need from nature. And you are served exactly what you ask for! So, the n...
Get the Philosophy of Happiness Right
If happiness needs to be maintained, sustained, and strived for, don’t you think it will exhaust you one day? You seem to exchange everything you own for nothing. At least, nothing that lasts. Things or people who make you happy today may cease...
Love Without “Ifs”
Let’s face the fact that no one loves you the way you are. In any relationship, there are ifs, buts and conditions. So, all your life, you try to keep the face, try to fit in and adhere to others’ expectations, just to feel loved. You strive to...
The Broken Philosophy of Happiness
We have always known happiness that comes at a price or suffering. We have all experienced good days and bad days. The worse the bad days are, the better the good days are. We believe that there is no happiness without suffering. We have been c...
The Cost of Pursuing Your Desires
Just like the weather, desire changes. Today you may desire something and put your time, energy and resources into fulfilling it. Yet, once the desire changes or wanes, you feel disheartened and hop onto the next thing you desire. ...
The Art of Problem Solving
We often think suffering is external and there are circumstances or people who cause us pain and disappointment. We try to remove these sources of suffering endlessly. We try to master problem solving yet without any concrete results.
Spend Your Time Wisely
The world around you has defined certain activities and interests as the norm. You are conditioned to believe the same, and you continue to pursue these without questioning whether they are truly necessary for your physical, mental, and overall...
Stop Competing, Start Belonging
In a world obsessed with being the "smartest," we have traded our peace for a relentless race of comparison. True freedom begins when we stop measuring our worth against others and start resting in our true nature. Competition is a ...
The Price of Competition
The concept of I, Me, Mine is valid only in the worlds that we create within our minds. We choose what favors us. We have separated space, opportunity and privilege for ourselves, people and things that matter to us. Whenever there is a competi...
The Real Disaster in a Disaster
Our minds don't see all events as just events. In and amongst incidents, our minds lean towards accidents. The real disaster is when the mind is not equanimous and labels events as disasters when the outcome is unfavourable. ...
Nature's Way Should be Your Way
Nature unfolds on its own, and when you choose to let nature runs its course rather than contesting it, you find peace in its truest sense. To achieve that, you need to understand the characteristics and ways of working of nature and become one...
The Art of Being Desireless
Does the promise of tomorrow excite you? Have you ever wondered why today, the 24 hours you spent experiencing life, was not enough? Why does your mind stay curious about the next best thing, and happiness, fulfilment, and contentment seem far-...