Happiness: How to Be Happy and Enjoy Life

By Delvensoft

A practical and simple manual on how to be happy and enjoy life. The material in this book is arranged in three parts. First, theoretical side
of happiness which explores the length and breadth of happiness in all its aspects. Second, application side of happiness, which overviews how people attempt to make happiness work. Third, practice of happiness shows some down to earth tips on how to remain happy with little things in life, which are accessible and available to all.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Delvensoft
• Release date: Feb 25, 2013
• ISBN: 9781301952052

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Happiness: How to Be Happy and Enjoy Life

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Table of Contents

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PART I - Theoretical side of happiness

Range of happiness

Happiness as a state of being

Buddhism on happiness and suffering

The cause of suffering

Suffering is a state of mind

We are not satisfied with what we do have and that we want what we don’t have

People and happiness

If we recognize why suffering comes about we can lessen it

PART II - Application side of happiness

People long for money, women, wealth, name, fame, power, etc.

You cannot change the outside world

Drop ordinary habits of thinking which control your everyday life

PART III - Practice of Happiness or Enjoying Life

Secret of happiness: from More to Enough

Stop living in the future

If it cannot be fulfilled then abandon

Enjoying small things of life

Enjoying Women

PART I

Theoretical side of happiness, unhappiness, suffering, misery and sorrow, etc.

Advocating happiness or pleasure principle in life has the recorded history in Indian Charvakas and Western Epicureans, Hedonists, etc. These people, schools of philosophic thought, have given theoretical dimension to caveman's idea of eat, drink and be merry with some qualifications and nuances. In simple terms, and for the common man it is just that: eat, drink and be merry.

Any celebrations round the world, cutting all cultural lines are organized for eating, drinking and being merry meaning dancing and having fun in their immediate cultural setting. Similarly, in other cultures and languages, the expression is meat, wine and women. Eat meat, drink wine and dance with, and enjoy women. Now the concept of happiness from time immemorial to the now is clear by the above expressions and phrases. It is basically food, drink and sex. Of course this is of physical plane. But it serves as the foundation for more subtle and higher levels of enjoying life with happiness.

Range of happiness

Physical Happiness

Happiness in physical plane is universally practiced and understood. Every culture in every land around the Earth organize these provisions as and when occasion arises. These basic pleasures have their basis in the child. The child begins his pleasure with food and drink. It is personal pleasure set in socially pleasurable context.

Personal Happiness

It is personal and individual happiness. When a group similarly enjoys the same event then it is a