The Inner Causes of Distress and Well-being: Insights from Buddhist Psychology
D1S1 - Hedonia, Eudaimonia and Where the Causes Lie
Lama Alan · 76 minutes · recorded January 1, 2019
Two kinds of happiness, and only one can grow and deepen. Lama Alan separates hedonia, any pleasure depending on a pleasant stimulus, from eudaimonia, a well-being that cannot be bought or sold, drawing on Socrates, Aristotle, Einstein and John Stuart Mill. He introduces conation, our faculty of desire and aspiration, and asks how intelligently we choose what we want. Teaching only, no practice, closing on principal causes, contributing conditions, and evident, subtle and very subtle causes.
Buddhist psychology Death and dying Genuine happiness and wellbeing