The Way To Happiness

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How Happy Are You – A Lama Marut Video Podcast

Your relative happiness is the real gauge of spiritual progress. The first steps to perfect happiness are to recognize the unhappiness we presently live with and have become inured to. And when we begin to see the results of even a little practice, we get some faith and are willing to work hard for our spiritual goals. This videocast is taken from a teaching given in February 2009, in Vancouver Canada. Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org

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Living Your True Nature / Elysha

www.truenaturecentre.com – The True Nature Centre is here to support you in feeling the power, joy, beauty, and creativity of your heart in this moment. It is where both Elysha and Julie Sarah Powell are available for meditation and spiritual teachings. Elysha & Julie are co-founders of the True Nature Centre & Our True Nature Charitable Trust. Our True Nature Charitable Trust is a non-profit organisation, with the intent to assist people to discover the simplicity of their true nature, and the natural happiness of the heart that flows within. People from all over the world come to the True Nature Centre, in Patea, New Zealand, to find their inborn enlightenment and connect with their true purpose, which provides a deep sense of connection to life and an abiding contentment. Some of the benefits of finding this simplicity, which are attainable for any person, are; the falling away of dysfunctional behaviour patterns, increased ability to deal with lifes occurrences calmly and clearly, decreased stress and anxiety levels, physical relaxation, extra energy, improved focus, concentration, and increased learning ability, along with greater intuition and enhanced creativity. In a nutshell, you become naturally happy and content!Keywords True Nature Centre, Advaita, Buddhism, Taoism, Ramana, Zen, Tolle, Adyashanti, Elysha, teacher, nature, spring awakening, enlightened, Falun Gong, spirituality, authentic, realization, meditation, inducing consciousness, reality, freedom …

Henepola Gunaratana is a Sri Lankan Buddhist monk who has taught graduate level courses on Buddhism at several universities in the United States, including Georgetown University, American University, and the University of Maryland, College Park. He has also written extensively on the subject of Buddhism. He teaches that happiness is dependent on the law of cause and effect.

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Buddhism and Happiness