Life Is Spiritual Practice: Achieving Happiness with the Ten Perfections

By Jean Smith

With this guide, find, and keep, true happiness by discovering and practicing Buddhism's ten virtues.

Discover the ten perfections--qualities of the heart and mind that cultivate happiness, wisdom, and compassion--and learn how to bring them into your life with this in-depth practice manual. Life Is Spiritual Practice carefully lays out the perfections, or paramis: the Buddha's foundational teaching for true happiness.
Generosity • Ethical Integrity • Renunciation • Wisdom • Wise Effort • Patience • Truthfulness • Resolve • Loving-Kindness • Equanimity
Drawing on her more than twenty years of teaching experience, Jean Smith teases out the subtleties of the perfections and offers helpful exercises, real-life examples, and instructions for an independent self-retreat for their practical application. With this book in hand, embody the ten perfections and achieve lasting happiness, regardless of your spiritual tradition.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Wisdom Publications
• Release date: Feb 10, 2015
• ISBN: 9781614291732

Jean Smith

I attended St Marys High School in Downpatrick that is where my interest for writing grew; I was thirteen when I entered a writing competition for a play I was lucky to win and my mum Maureen Mageean went with me to recording studio in England and it was screened on television in 1965, I worked in the catering trade which I loved and later on met my husband and we had a lovely son named Gary who married Michelle and they have given me three lovely grand children Rayan Shannon and Amy; I have continued writing through out the years and since retiring I now have the time to sit down and write.