Not quite Running related but the journey in Ultra running for the past 4 years has had many twist and turns.In particular the rabbit hole of spirituality and meditation.
Here are my list of lessons and thoughts and discoveries:
Know what is Happiness . Not attainable . It is really the desire to keep improving .To know happiness we all have to suffer. Arthur C Brooks
https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2022/12/features-arthur-brooks
Happiness and the Meaning of Life
For Brooks, you just break down the problem of life’s meaning into three concepts of positive psychology. These are:
- “coherence” or “how events fit together,” which is “an understanding that things happen in your life for a reason”
- “purpose” or “the existence of goals and aims,” which amounts to “the belief that you are alive in order to do something”
- and “significance” or “life’s inherent value,” which is “the sense that your life matters.”
Being Happy is to find meaning in life To know what you are , your purpose where you are heading
Read Thich Nhat Hanh's book The essence of Meditation
https://tricycle.org/article/thich-nhat-hanh-continuation-day/
Read Aya Khema Book Being Nobody Going Nowhere
Learn to Meditate
Learn to Let Go or from a Zen view Zazen ....Just sit .
Be Compassionate to yourself and all beings
To truly understand the nature of no self and as Thich Nhat Hand termed Interbeing ...the consciousness /energy that is the life force .by trying to appreciate that interconnection do we appreciate and have compassion for all beings .
Laurie Santos The happiness Podcast
https://www.pushkin.fm/podcasts/the-happiness-lab-with-dr-laurie-santos
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