For the first time in a couple of weeks, I decided not to work after putting my daughter to bed. Instead I watched Life in a Day on Netflix, something I’ve been meaning to do for some time. YouTube collected…
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Life in a Day
Tagged with: aversion, daily life, death, desire, humor, joy, love, nature, video
Posted in Mind & Body, Uncategorized
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Sympathetic Joy
The word for Joy in Pali – mudita – is synonymous with what in English we might call sympathetic joy. Wikipedia describes it as “the pleasure that comes from delighting in other people’s well-being.” That’s so beautiful. And like the…
Little Joy
Reading about joy the other day in a Thich Nhat Hanh book reminded me of how elusive it can be, up on this pedestal and out of reach. I thought back on the last few times I found myself “unhappy” and how,…
