Happy Virtues
  • Happy Virtues
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        • Calming Overwhelm - Diaphragmatic Breathing
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      • Curiosity
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        • Distinguishing Virtue & Vice
        • Weakening Vice
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          • Kindness
          • Forgiveness
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      • Procrastination
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Instructor Luis

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Last updated 8 months ago

Interests

Improving Happiness

  • Exploring methods to develop a happiness which is facilitating independent happiness and morality.

Improving Virtue

  • Exploring methods to develop habits that are of moral benefit.

Improving Moral Understanding

  • Understanding what is good & bad and their respective causes.

Benefits of Practice

Happiness

Month by month I notice a weakening of my negative reactions and a strengthening of my positive responses. Difficulties definitely remain for me, however I have found a way to skillfully be with them and nurture my well-being sustainably.

Moral Virtues

  • Moral Intent

    • Increasingly automatic response to everyone & everything.

      • Near-complete replacement (~95%) of self-directed anger with kindness

    • Moral intent (kindness) as my logical and mindful choice for interacting with everyone & everything

  • Moral Clarity

    • Increased ability to understand different moral frameworks

    • Feeling tone (valence) as well as virtue/vice as unit of good & bad

    • Moral Circle expanded to include all sentience

    • Moral Weight given to all habits - animate or innamite

    • Improved humility i.e., ability to update beliefs via non-attachment and understanding causality

  • Moral Capacity

    • Energized via releasing exhausting variables such as compassion fatigue, guilt & anger

    • Increasingly taking action via releasing fear and shame and cultivating sympathetic joy and compassion

Every day I am witnessing and learning from the relationship between skills, happiness and causing good.

Influences

Happiness Practices

  • Theravada Buddhism (, , )

  • Secular mindfulness (, )

  • Psychotherapy (EMDR)

  • My own investigation

Moral Theory

  • Theravada Buddhism

  • Utilitarianism

  • Virtue Ethics

  • Effective Altruism

  • My own investigation

Goenka
Pa Auk Sayadaw
Mahasi Sayadaw
Shinzen Young's Unified Mindfulness
Stephen Procter's MIDL