Can mindfulness meditation make you happy?
I have a friend that calls herself spiritual who attends an evangelical Christian church every Sunday. She also does lots of voluntary work in a Christian organization that distributes food to homeless people.
Despite her spiritual practice and her good works, she is not happy. I also have some Buddhist friends who are miserable.
If you consider yourself to be a spiritual person then ask yourself the following questions:
- Does your spirituality make you happy?
- Do you struggle to make sense of life and how you fit into the larger scheme of things?
- Are you content with where you are, or are you reaching for some spiritual or mystical state that always seems just out of reach?
- Have you found your purpose in life?
If you answered no to any of the above questions, then your spirituality could be, instead or a source of comfort, a cause of conflict in you.
All this has got me think about spirituality and how genuine spirituality should, at the minimum, make you happy. Read more
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