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Podcast: Buddhism for Everyone with JoAnn Fox
Episode: How to Create a Happy Reality
Description: Buddha taught that our mind creates our reality. Our mind creates our life and whether we are happy or unhappy. In this episode, we delve deep into HOW our minds create our reality. Here we begin the study of the Dhammapada, the oldest text in the Buddhist canon. It is a collection of things Buddha actually said 2600 years ago, written down by his followers. The mechanics of the creation of every moment of your consciousness involve the five all- accompanying mental factors. Contact - making contact with an object Feeling - a mental factor...