Eastern Vs Western Ideas of Happiness

The answer to what humans need to find happiness is entirely different in the East than the West. Westerners would do well to understand the Eastern point of view. Sign up to our new newsletter and get 10% off your first online order of a book, product or class: For books and more from The School of Life, visit our online shop: Our website has therapy, articles and products to help you lead a more fulfilled life: FURTHER READING You can read more on this and other subjects on our blog, here: “The Western intellectual tradition suggests that in order to be happy, what we need to do most of all is to go out and subdue the world; secure resources, found businesses, run governments, gain fame and conquer contrast, the Eastern tradition has for a long while told us something very different. In both its Buddhist and Hindu strands, it has insisted that contentment requires us to learn