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Podcast: Buddhism for Everyone with JoAnn Fox
Episode: Episode 59 - Opening our hearts to all living beings
Description: We've been working for our own happiness our whole lives. Every action we've taken has been to create or restore happiness. If we have put all this effort into a singular objective—our own happiness—and we are still not happy and satisfied, then we must be using the wrong methods. The Buddha taught that our obsessive self concern, which seeks our own happiness alone, actually destroys the causes of happiness. Instead the Buddha advises that we open our heart and start working for the happiness of all living beings. This supremely altruistic intention makes our life meaningful and joyf...