We all know in our hearts when we have received or offered kindness because of the warm feeling it brings. Is there anyone who does not want to experience kindness from another person?
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Reflect on your conversations you have today - their content, their tone and their purpose. It's nice to speak with kindness, sensitivity and wisdom.
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Delight is the delicious taste we get when something good happens. Worries fade away, frustration evaporates, and anger disappears when a baby is safe or a friend passes their exams, when a problem is solved or a conflict resolved. Delight opens the heart.
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Generosity has the potential to release us from a limited and compulsive focus on ‘me’ and ‘mine’. It also helps us promote the pleasures of sharing time, energy, talents and possessions.
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Contentment is a state of mind that has nothing to do with money, objects or other people. Nor does it concern itself with how much we have, or how little.
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Rejoice in your capacity to be honest and straightforward, it has the potential to promote a culture of seeking the common good instead of pursuing personal self-interest.
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Life is full of uncomfortable experiences, from minor niggles and irritations to major confrontations and setbacks. When they happen, we have a choice about how to respond. We can either become agitated and upset, or we can stay calm and relaxed.
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Aspiration is the profound longing for purpose and fulfilment, joy and happiness, which lies deep - and sometimes buried - in our hearts, and in the heart of every living being.
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Humility is the attitude of experiencing the world and what it contains with wonder and awe. It is about seeing ourselves as a small part of a vast cosmos, inhabited by people and creatures from who we can learn.
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12 teachers attended the training of the 16 Guidelines for Life in Bodhgaya, India - including all the teachers at Maitreya School. Our focus was on sharing, empowering and investigating the values of the 16 Guidelines thoroughly. We wanted to empower the teachers to feel confident in designing their own exercises to try with the children.
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How do you experience contentment?
It can be easy as taking a breath in, and deciding to release everything that makes us feel anxious and dissatisfied as you breathe out. Let the commotion of the world simply come to rest
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Many of us believe that the purpose of life is to seek happiness. We work hard to get the right partner, job, house, car, body, and children so that we will be happy. But after a basic amount, will having greater wealth, success, or sensual pleasure actually mean we experience greater happiness?
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Why is bad news sometimes more compelling than good news? If we can learn to dwell on positive stories and accomplishments we can quickly bring more happiness into the lives of ourselves and others, so why not make a date with delight?
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Fifty four people from 5 continents came together to share their experiences of the 16Guidelines and to deepen, renew, and explore the wisdom of these teachings.
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Marian O'Dwyer shares an update on the planning for the 16 Guidelines Retreat Gathering.
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Statement about the Role Models used in the 16 Guidelines for a Happy Life Book and Programme.
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Take a couple of minutes to pause to calm your body and mind by trying our 7-11 breathing exercise.
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We are delighted to inform you that Education Universelle France (EUF) is in the initial stages of organising an International 16 Guidelines Retreat Gathering.
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