Sustainable Happiness: The Mind Science of Well-Being, Altruism, and Inspiration

Very lengthy with copious footnotes, in-depth, and well written for what it is. Awfully approachable and readable if you have some familiarity with serious practice. Please do approach! Not "dumbed-down to say the least, nor dry and academic. Just thorough, as is the tradition. If you are sincerely interested in following the LamRim path, and are already familiar with serious Tibetan Buddhist practice of that particular variety, this is well worth your consideration. The author's former student and protege, Dr. Miles Neale, also has a book entitled Gradual Awakening: The Tibetan Buddhist Path of Becoming Fully Human that pursues the same subject matter in a shorter, but no less in-depth, form that I highly recommend.

Short attention spans, rage, and fear have been monetized by means of the internet, media, and the corporation. Behaviors that are manifested by our destructive emotions are commodities in the system we inhabit, particularly in the workplace, and are frequently rewarded and reinforced. Aggression, greed, and egocentric status are prized and promoted. To further complicate matters, the inherited, easily triggered, predatory facet of our nature, necessary for survival in bygone days, is often a liability in our crowded, interdependent world, where competition for finite resources is spiralling. The need for an effective technique to cultivate compassion and provide a sense of peace, balance, and contentment is greater than ever.With great care and precision, Joe Loizzo presents a scholarly, detailed antidote to the dangerously complex, anxious age we occupy. Dr. Loizzo moves among the lights of literature, history, biology, mythology, philosophy and psychoanalysis with the ease, grace, and power of an Olympic figure skater. He makes the palliative riches of Tibetan Buddhism accessible and useful. Sustainable Happiness provides practical means for avoiding the pitfalls of the sometimes unhelpful biological proclivities and psychological hazards to which we are heir. Sustainable Happiness presents a salubrious alternative to the prevaling worldview within which happiness is often confused with the accumulation of influence, wealth, and accessories.

One of a kind text on mindfulness meditation and its place in transforming habitual competitive response. The reader may pick and choose what applies to his or her level or area of interest. This volume has it all. Morgan Phenix

Fascinating.

For anyone who has ever been curious about the method of Tibetan Buddhist practice, in Joe Loizzo's remarkable book Sustainable Happiness, they will find the only substantive, accessible and illuminating blueprint for Westerners that I know of. This book is a first of its kind - a readable curriculum written by a long-term Western practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism. With patience and determination, Loizzo helps the reader understand the history and teachings of the contemplative mind/body science utilizing Tantric imagery and symbolism first developed at the University of Nalanda, a Buddhist monastic institute in North India. As an integrative psychiatrist and psychotherapist, Loizzo masterfully addresses the psychological impact of this practice, the ways in which it works with the full spectrum of our psycho-spiritual conditions, methodically ushering the practitioner to an experience of genuine wellness that is sustainable, even in the midst of external stressors or struggles.For the reader who has been practicing Tibetan Buddhism, he/she will find answers to the endless questions that arise when we embark on any healing path that works. Having practiced this method for several decades, as I read Sustainable Happiness, I was simultaneously riveted and aware that if I had had access to such a book when I began this practice, I would have been helped in integrating what, at times, felt like a culturally-determined method steeped in an ancient and arcane time and place. Loizzo writes with tremendous clarity and insight, helping the reader understand the intimate relationship between our neurology, our psychological experience, and our need for spiritual methods that effectively address and work with both realms of our lived experience. Sustainable Happiness is a spectacular contribution, a book that will prove to be endlessly useful to clinicians interested in better understanding the psychologically healing impact of Tibetan Buddhist practice, to Western Buddhists wishing to deepen their ongoing spiritual practice, and to anyone for whom happiness and well-being are longed for experiences they hope to achieve.

An astonishingly lucid presentation of the dharma in light of contemporary mind science that lays out the entire ground, path and fruition of Buddhist practice. For the curious, the wonkish and the seeker after liberation. Brilliant.

Un libro muy interesante que abarca la sostenibilidad de la felicidad a través del minduflness. Recomendado para las personas con inquietudes en este sentido