A Monk's Guide to Happiness: Meditation in the 21st century

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In his youth he tried to find it through living a wild and extreme lifestyle as an actor in New York. Another point in GT’s favour is that he acknowledges that meditation can also be harmful if done too much or incorrectly. Thubten, a Buddhist monk and meditation expert who has worked with everyone from school kids to Silicon Valley entrepreneurs and Benedict Cumberbatch, explains how meditation and mindfulness can create a direct path to happiness. With openness, humility and humour he delivers a deep message that will resonate in our modern culture. GT writing is genuine, with heart and understanding, and is a far departure from some of the condescending and basic run-throughs of meditation I have experienced in the past.

Mediating has thus been proved by millennia of practice in the East to have spectacular effects and more recently, due to interest from the West, there have been experiments that revealed how the brain behaves for those who meditate versus the others that do not and it is also clear that the argument The Monk makes – together with so many others before him, starting with ancient luminaries, from Buddha to Socrates – that we need to retreat for the agitation, anxiety, febrility of the modern life makes a lot of sense, especially given that the tendency to get distracted is huge with a smart phone in the hand. But as we evolve we give ourselves more opportunity and excuses to be distracted, anxious, threatened and angry with the various thoughts and actions that accompany such feelings. I think this book is it - straight forward, clear and without too much "woo woo" that can put some people off.These cookies help provide information on metrics the number of visitors, bounce rate, traffic source, etc.

A Monk’s Guide to Happiness explores the nature of happiness and helps bust the myth that our lives and minds are too busy for meditation.At no point does Thubten compare meditation directly with other activities or denigrate them, but the way he presents the place, benefit and effects of a daily meditation routine makes it clear that this is the only "Master Key" to happiness and lasting change.