The Art of Happiness In a Troubled World

 

About Author Howard C. Cutler

The Art of Happiness (Riverhead, 1998, ISBN 1-57322-111-2) is a book by the 14th Dalai Lama and Howard Cutler, a psychiatrist who posed questions to the Dalai Lama. Cutler quotes the Dalai Lama at length, providing context and describing some details of the settings in which the interviews took place, as well as adding his reflections on issues that raise

About The Art of Happiness 

In this book, extensive conversations with the Dalai Lama have been recounted. 

A while back, I was invited to Australia to deliver the opening keynote address at an international conference on human happiness. 

This was an unusually large event, which brought together fifty leading experts from around the world to speak about happiness, thousands of attendees, and even the Dalai Lama, who appeared on the second day as the featured speaker. 

With so many professional colleagues gathered in one spot, there was plenty of lively discussion colleagues gathered in one spot, there was plenty of lively discussion on a wide range of topics. During a lunch break, 

I overheard several colleagues arguing about the merits of some recent articles in the Australian newspapers, touching on a date going on in positive psychology circles. 

Positive psychology is a new branch of psychology often referred to as" the science of Human happiness, which is the better approach to focus on inner development or social welfare?

 In other words, should efforts be devoted primarily to developing techniques that individuals can practice to increase personal happiness, 

or should we focus on improving social conditions, creating conditions that allow the members of a society to thrive and result in greater happiness for the population as a whole? 

It seemed that the debate could be quite contentious at times. Some championing the social approach were characterizing positive psychology, 

which largely focused on finding effective methods of increasing personal happiness, as little more than another self-indulgent pop psychology fad, concerned only with a self-centered pursuit of personal gratification. 

Of course, the positive psychology camp had some powerful arguments in rebuttal.

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