The Wisdom of a Meaningful Life: The Essence of Mindfulness

The Wisdom of a Meaningful Life: The Essence of Mindfulness

by John Bruna
The Wisdom of a Meaningful Life: The Essence of Mindfulness

The Wisdom of a Meaningful Life: The Essence of Mindfulness

by John Bruna

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Overview

What are the keys to genuine happiness?

In contrast to stimulus-driven pleasure, genuine contentment comes from living a life of meaning that aligns with one's values. John Bruna provides readers with the practical wisdom and methods to cultivate deeper satisfaction and contentment in everyday experiences. He identifies common traps people fall into looking for happiness that actually create stress, worry, and fear, offering authentic mindfulness-based solutions to counteract them.

The increasing popularity of secular mindfulness in the United States mainstream has unfortunately produced a wide variety of teachings that water down and sometimes misrepresent this important philosophy and approach to living. In direct contrast, this invaluable book maintains the substance of the entire teaching as a program that is accessible to people of all spiritual traditions or no spiritual tradition.

John Bruna is a counselor, educator, and mindfulness and spiritual teacher. In 2005, he was ordained as a Buddhist monk in the Tibetan tradition through the Gaden Shartse Monastery in India. In 2012, he became a Certified Cultivating Emotional Balance Mindfulness Teacher via the Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies. Currently, John is the director of the Way of Compassion Foundation and cofounder of the Mindful Life Program.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781942094180
Publisher: Central Recovery Press, LLC
Publication date: 08/09/2016
Pages: 200
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

John Bruna is a counselor, educator, mindfulness and spiritual teacher. With humble and challenging beginnings, he grew up in a low-income environment, surrounded by drugs, alcohol, and violence. He has been in recovery since 1984. In 1992 he became Certified Alcohol and Substance Abuse Counselor in California, and in 2000 received a BA in History and Secondary Teaching Credential from California State University, Northridge. In 2005 he was ordained as a Buddhist monk in the Tibetan tradition through the Gaden Shartse Monastery in India. After more than six years of monastic life, John has returned to life as a layperson and in 2012 became a Certified Cultivating Emotional Balance Mindfulness Teacher via the Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies. Currently, John is the director of Way of Compassion Foundation and Co-Founder of the Mindful Life Program.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii

Chapter 1 The Search for Happiness 1

Chapter 2 Genuine Happiness 9

Chapter 3 The Unruly Mind 19

Chapter 4 Attention 27

Chapter 5 Values 37

Chapter 6 Wisdom 45

Chapter 7 Cultivating the Four Immeasurable Attitudes 67

Chapter 8 Taking Action 95

Chapter 9 Living Mindfully 105

Chapter 10 The Wisdom of a Meaningful Life 115

A Matter of Practice: Additional Support for Living Mindfully 119

Appendix: Values List 149

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