https://summaryshelf.app/authors/dalai-lama-xiv/Recent content in Dalai Lama XIV on SummaryShelfHugoen-usWed, 22 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://summaryshelf.app/art-of-happiness/Fri, 23 Jun 2023 00:00:00 +0000https://summaryshelf.app/art-of-happiness/<p>Win the lottery or lose your job, and within a few months you drift back to roughly the mood you started with. Good and bad events deliver a jolt of pleasure or pain, then fade. The Dalai Lama builds his entire approach to happiness on that single fact: if circumstances can&rsquo;t shift your baseline for long, contentment has to come from somewhere you can actually govern — your own mind. He treats happiness as a skill, grown by deliberately strengthening positive mental states and starving the negative ones. The core discipline is compassion.</p>