Foreword by
VEN. THUBTEN CHODRON
Delhi, 2016. Pp. xx, 253.
ISBN : 978-81-208-4024-9 (HB)
Rs.800
Practical Buddhism is a collection of insights and tales about practicing dharma in everyday life. These humorous accounts of the mundane successes and failures of the author and his friends offer practical guidance for anyone wishing to align their daily lives with Buddhist values and ideas. Stories about answering the door, quarreling dogs, coping with city traffic, living with cellphones, greeting others, etc. employ wit and irony to demonstrate that really effective progress in improving one’s character is often made in mundane ways.
The anecdotes and reflections that the author shares in this book is straight from his own life. Each of us wants to be happy and avoid suffering although different people, possessions, and places may bring us happiness or suffering. Despite this desire for happiness not misery, we lack the knowledge of what the causes for each are. We keep looking outside of ourselves for someone or something that will bring us the satisfaction and joy we seek, yet these continually elude us.
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