Notes

[1] His Holiness the Dalai Lama. The Four Noble Truths (Kindle Locations 295-296). HarperCollins Publishers. Kindle Edition.

[2] Achor, Shawn, The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work (pp. 21, 41, 42, 52). Crown Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

[3] Kahneman, Daniel (2011). Thinking, Fast and Slow. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Kindle Edition.

[4] Merton, The Way of Chuang Tzu.

[5] Merton, The Way of Chuang Tzu.

[6] Easwaran Ed., Eknath, The Dhammapada (Classics of Indian Spirituality) (Kindle Locations 2232-2233). Nilgiri Press. Kindle Edition.

[7] Hanh, Thich Nhat, The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching (Parallax Press, 1998), p. 104.

[8] Easwaran, The Dhammapada verse 1 (p. 107).

[9] Aristotle; Irwin, Terence, Nicomachean Ethics, Second Edition, Hackett Publishing. Kindle Edition.

[10] Easwaran, The Dhammapada (p. 43).

[11] Satchidananda, Swami, The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali: Commentary on the Raja Yoga Sutras by Sri Swami Satchidananda (Kindle Location 1062). Integral Yoga Publications. Kindle Edition.

[12] Aquinas, Thomas, Summa Theologica, I-II, Q. 1, Art. 8, I-II, Q. 3, Art. 1, Coyote Canyon Press. Kindle Edition.

[13] Aristotle; Irwin, Terence, Nicomachean Ethics, secs. 5 and 7. Second Edition (Translated & Annotated) (pp. 7 - 8). Hackett Publishing. Kindle Edition.

[14] Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics.

[15] Aquinas, Summa Theologica, I-II, Q. 3, Art. 2.

[16] Note: The SWLS was developed by Ed Diener, and is in the public domain. Diener has indicated it can be used without his permission. The answers to the five questions are used to construct the Satisfaction With Life Scale (SWLS).

[17] For a full explanation of each overall satisfaction score, see Diener, Ed, “Understanding Scores on the Satisfaction with Life Scale.”

[18] See Tsering, Geshe Tashi, The Four Noble Truths: The Foundation of Buddhist Thought, Volume 1 (Kindle Location 396). Wisdom Publications. Kindle Edition.

[19] Lyubomirsky, Sonja, The How of Happiness: A New Approach to Getting the Life You Want (p. 33). Penguin Group US. Kindle Edition..

[20] The left prefrontal cortex of the brain is associated with feelings of happiness. See Lyubomirsky, The How of Happiness (p. 60).

[21] Claire Bates, “Is this the world's happiest man? Brain scans reveal French monk has 'abnormally large capacity' for joy - thanks to meditation,” Daily Mail, Oct. 31, 2012.

[22] Sachidananda, The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, (Kindle location 1792).

[23] Gospel of Thomas, 113, Translated by Thomas O. Lambdin., “ Following is the full text: "It [the Kingdom] will not come by waiting for it. It will not said, 'Look, here it is' or ‘Look, there it is.' Rather, the father’s kingdom is spread out upon the earth, and people do not see it." Also see Gospel of Thomas, 51, “What you look for has come, but you do not know it.” Also, in Luke 17:20-21, Jesus was asked by the Pharisees when the kingdom of God would come, Jesus replied, “The coming of the kingdom of God is not something that can be observed, nor will people say, ‘Here it is,’ or ‘There it is,’ because the kingdom of God is in your midst.”

[24] Luke 17:21.

[25] Easwaran Ed., Eknath, The Bhagavad Gita (Classics of Indian Spirituality) (p. 260). Nilgiri Press. Kindle Edition. 18:38-39.

[26] Satchidananda, The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (Kindle Location 1611).

[27] See Lyubomirsky, The How of Happiness (p. 57).

[28] See Lyubomirsky, The How of Happiness.

[29] Hua Ching Ni, The Complete Works of Lao Tzu: Tao Teh Ching and Hua Hu Ching, SevenStar Communications. Kindle Edition (Kindle Location 19), (Kindle Locations 2318-2320).

[30] “Richard Cory, “ by Edwin Arlington Robinson

[31] Lyubomirsky, The How of Happiness (p. 48).

[32] Lyubomirsky, The How of Happiness (p. 50). Lyubomirsky cited the well-known study by Brickman, P., Coates, D., & Janoff-Bulman, R. (1978). Lottery winners and accident victims: Is happiness relative? Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 36, 917-927.

[33] Daniel Kahneman and Angus Deaton, High Income Improves Evaluation of life but Not Emotional Well-Being, Princeton Center for Health and Well-Being, August 4, 2010.

[34] Lyubomirsky, Sonja, The How of Happiness (p. 49).

[35] This observation about rats and people was made back in the early 1970’s in the EST training. It is no less true today.

[36] Merton, Thomas, The Way of Chuang Tzu (Second Edition) New Directions. Kindle Edition..

[37] Kübler-Ross, Elisabeth; Kessler, David, On Grief and Grieving: Finding the Meaning of Grief Through the Five Stages of Loss. Scribner. Kindle Edition.

[38] Kübler-Ross and Kessler, On Grief and Grieving, p. 78.

[39] MGM, Gone with the Wind (1939).

[40] Easwaran, The Dhammapada (p. 107).

[41] Ajahn Sucitto, Turning the Wheel of Truth: Commentary on the Buddha's First Teaching, Shambhala (2010), Kindle Locations 933-944.

[42] Yoga Sutras, Pada 1.2, Carrera, Jaganath (2012). Inside The Yoga Sutras: A Comprehensive Sourcebook for the Study and Practice of Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras. BookMasters. Kindle Edition, Kindle locations 377 and 8309. The Yoga Sutras describes all of the reality that we see, imagine, or think, including what we identify as ourselves, as Prakriti, or the “seen” Prakriti is material reality, both physical and nonphysical; meaning everything we know, everything we imagine, everything that is, everything we are and everything we think.

[43] Yoga Sutras, Pada 1.2 and 2.22, Carrera, Inside the Yoga Sutras.

[44] Satchidananda, Swami, The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali: Commentary on the Raja Yoga Sutras by Sri Swami Satchidananda (Kindle Location 282). Integral Yoga Publications. Kindle Edition.

[45] H. H. Dalai Lama, The Four Noble Truths (Kindle Locations 155-156). “What appears as some kind of autonomous, objective reality out there does not really fit with the actual nature of reality.”

[46] See the discussion of this experiment in Kahneman, Daniel. Thinking, Fast and Slow (pp. 23-24). Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Kindle Edition.

[47] Heidegger, Martin, Being and Time, translated by John Macquarrie & Edward Robinson Sec. 53, (Kindle Location 8830-8833).

[48] Yoga Sutras, pada 1.11, “Memory is the recollection of experienced objects.” Carrera, Inside the Yoga Sutras.

[49] This is a simplified version of the way we perceive things. My purpose here is to illustrate our reliance upon memory; and this illustration serves this purpose. A more precise discussion of perception is provided by Robert Sokolowski in his discussion of “The Structure of the Living Present,” in Introduction to Phenomenology (p. 134). Cambridge University Press. Kindle Edition. In order to perceive the current instant, referred to in phenomenological terms such as the “living present” or “lived present,” we are simultaneously aware of the current instant (the primal instant), the immediate past (the retention), and the immediate future (the protention). This way we experience the current instant in context, and are therefore aware of what is happening right now. As Sokolowski explains this, our experience of “now” does not present us with individual “frames” of film. Instead, we have an immediate and direct experience of the present, past and future. Citing William James, Sokolowski compares our experience of now to a “saddleback.” “Whatever is given to us in perception is given as trailing off and also as coming into presence.”

[50] Baumeister, Bratslavsky, Finkenauer and Vohs, Bad is Stronger than Good, Review of General Psychology, 2001. Vol. 5, No. 4, 323-370.

[51] Sri Swami Sachidananda, Yoga Sutras of Patanjali, Kindle location 1792, Integral Yoga Pulications, 1978.

[52] Gospel of Thomas, 113, Translated by Thomas O. Lambdin.

[53] H. H. Dalai Lama, The Four Noble Truths (Kindle Location 157). “Once we appreciate that fundamental disparity between appearance and reality, we gain a certain insight into the way our emotions work, and how we react to events and objects.”

[54] Shakespeare, William, Hamlet, Act 1, Scene 5.

[55] Ibsen, Henrik, Peer Gynt, Act Four, Scene 13.

[56] Carrera, Inside the Yoga Sutras, 389.

[57] Brother Lawrence, Practice of the Presence of God, The (Kindle Locations 935-936). Baker Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

[58] Smith, Huston, The World's Religions, Revised and Updated (Plus) (Kindle Locations 4904-4908). HarperCollins. Kindle Edition. Here, Smith is quoting Frithjof Schuon, Understanding Islam (New York: Penguin Books, 1972), 44– 45.

[59] Krishnamurti, Jiddu, Essay: Truth is a Pathless Land, published in Total Freedom: The Essential Krishnamurti (HarperCollins e-bookChuang Tzus, Kindle Edition).

[60] Matthew 13: 10-13. Zondervan, Holy Bible (NIV)Zondervan. Kindle Edition.

[61] This is a paraphrase of a portion the Cula-Malunkyovada Sutta. This sutra is the The Shorter Instructions to Malunkya, translated from the Pali by Thanissaro Bhikkhu (1998).

[62] Aquinas, Thomas, Summa Theologica, I-II, Q. 2, art. 8, Q. 3, Art. 5, Q. 3, Art. 7, Q. 3, Art. 8, Q. 4, Art. 5. Coyote Canyon Press. Kindle Edition.

[63] Boethius, Ancius, The Consolation of Philosophy (Penguin Classics) (Kindle Location 1532). Penguin Books Ltd. Kindle Edition. Book III, XI.

[64] Easwaran Ed., Eknath, The Bhagavad Gita (Classics of Indian Spirituality) (p. 235). Nilgiri Press. Kindle Edition.

[65] For more information on the Contemplative Christian tradition, see http://www.contemplativeoutreach.org.

[66] Roberts, Bernadette, What Is Self?: A Study of the Spiritual Journey in Terms of Consciousness (p. 9). Sentient Publications. Kindle Edition.

[67] Lyubomirsky, The How of Happiness.

[68] Lyubomirsky, The How of Happiness.

[69] Frankl, Viktor E. (1959). Man's Search for Meaning. Beacon Press. Kindle Edition.

[70] Kübler-Ross, Elisabeth; Kessler, David, On Grief and Grieving: Finding the Meaning of Grief Through the Five Stages of Loss (p. 10). Scribner. Kindle Edition.

[71] Dickens, Charles, A Christmas Carol (Kindle Locations 1055-1057). CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. Kindle Edition

[72] Campbell, Joseph, A Joseph Campbell Companion: Reflections on the Art of Living (Collected Works of Joseph Campbell) (Kindle Location 129). Joseph Campbell Foundation. Kindle Edition.

[73] Camus, Albert (2012). The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays (Vintage International). Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group. Kindle Edition.

[74] Camus refers to the “absurd man” in his essay. I am taking the liberty of changing this, since I believe that women and children can also be absurd.

[75] Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus, p. 28.

[76] Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning.

[77] Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus, p. 27. “I want everything to be explained to me or nothing.… The mind aroused by this insistence seeks and finds nothing but contradictions and nonsense.”

[78] Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus, p. 6. “A world that can be explained even with bad reasons is a familiar world. But, on the other hand, in a universe suddenly divested of illusions and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger.”

[79] Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays, p. 16. “Understanding the world for a man is reducing it to the human, stamping it with his seal.… The truism ‘All thought is anthropomorphic’ has no other meaning. Likewise, the mind that aims to understand reality can consider itself satisfied only by reducing it to terms of thought.”

[80] Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus, p. 51. “And these two certainties—my appetite for the absolute and for unity and the impossibility of reducing this world to a rational and reasonable principle— I also know that I cannot reconcile them.”

[81] Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning (p. 8). Kindle Edition.

[82] Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus, pp. 32-34.

[83] Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus, p. 51. “I don’t know whether this world has a meaning that transcends it. But I know that I do not know that meaning and that it is impossible for me just now to know it.”

[84] Hagen, Steven (2011-06-21). Buddhism Plain and Simple. Tuttle Publishing. Kindle Edition, page 101.

[85] Lyubomirsky, The How of Happiness.

[86] See the discussion of “chronic stress” in Wikipedia.

[87] Carrera, Inside the Yoga Sutras (p. 167).

[88] Carrera, Inside the Yoga Sutras (p. 34).

[89] H. H. Dalai Lama, The Four Noble Truths (Kindle Location 273).

[90] Hagen, Buddhism Plain and Simple (p. 106).

[91] Hagen, Buddhism Plain and Simple (p. 104).

[92] Hagen, Buddhism Plain and Simple (p. 104).

[93] Yoga Sutras, padas. 1.34 to 1.39, Insider the Yoga Sutras.

[94] Hagen, Buddhism Plain and Simple (p. 108).

[95] Satchidananda, The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (Kindle Location 708).

[96] Carrera, Inside the Yoga Sutras (p. 68).

[97] For a good discussion of this phrase, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Om_mani_padme_hum.

[98] Satchidananda, The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (Kindle Location 719).

[99] Satchidananda, The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali (Kindle Location 2877).

[100] See Carrera, Inside the Yoga Sutras, Pada One Review.

[101] Castaneda, Carlos, Journey to Ixtlan.

[102] Heidegger, Martin, Being and Time, Sec. 53, (Kindle Location 8830-8833). Kindle Edition. “We may now summarize our characterization of authentic Being-towards-death as we have projected it existentially: anticipation reveals to Dasein its lostness in the they-self, and brings it face to face with the possibility of being itself, primarily unsupported by concernful solicitude, but of being itself, rather, in an impassioned freedom towards death—a freedom which has been released from the Illusions of the ‘they’, and which is factical, certain of itself, and anxious.” Also see, Foulds, Steven, A Serious Guide to Being and Time (Kindle Locations 3988-3990). Kindle Edition.

[103] Carrera, Inside the Yoga Sutras: (p. 48).