Two great spiritual experts share their own hard-won wisdom about living with joy even when confronted with adversity.

The occasion was a big birthday. And it inspired two good friends to get together in Dharamsala for the talk about something very vital that you them. The friends had been His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu. The topic was joy. Both winners from the Nobel Award, both great religious masters and moral leaders of our time, also, they are known for being among the about The Book of Pleasure: Lasting Pleasure within a Changing World most infectiously happy people on the planet.

Right from the start the book was envisioned being a three-layer birthday cake: their own stories and teachings about joy, the most recent findings in the science of deep happiness, as well as the daily practices that anchor their own emotional and spiritual lives. Both the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Tutu have been tested by great personal and national adversity, and right here they talk about their personal stories of struggle and renewal. Given that these are both in their eighties, they specifically want to pass on the primary message that to possess joy yourself, you need to bring happiness to others.

Most of all, during that landmark week in Dharamsala, they demonstrated by their own exuberance, compassion, and laughter how joy could be transformed from a fleeting feeling into an enduring life-style.

Narration Credits:

Douglas Carlton Abrams, read by the writer

Dalai Lama, go through by Francois Chau

Desmond Tutu, go through by Peter Francis James