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In collaboration with Howard Cutler, a western psychiatrist, the Dalai Lama incorporates stories and meditations on how to overcome anxiety, anger, jealousy, or simply a bad mood. Those who suffer from family, health, or work problems will learn how to achieve inner peace, using 2,500 years of Buddhist teachings - and a healthy dose of common sense - as a guide. THE ART OF HAPPINESS is an audiobook for people of every denomination, crossing the boundaries of all traditions, that will help listeners defeat the difficulties common to us all.

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Working from existing translations, Thomas Merton composed a series of his own versions of the classic sayings of Chuang Tzu, the most spiritual of Chinese philosophers. Chuang Tzu, who wrote in the fourth and third centuries B.C., is the chief authentic historical spokesperson for Taoism and its founder Lao Tzu (a legendary character known largely through Chuang Tzu’s writings). Indeed it was because of Chuang Tzu and the other Taoist sages that Indian Buddhism was transformed, in China, into the unique vehicle we now call by its Japanese name—Zen. The Chinese sage abounds in wit and paradox and shattering insights into the true ground of being. Thomas Merton, no stranger to Asian thought, brings a vivid, modern idiom to the timeless wisdom of Tao.

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