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Las leyes de la felicidad
El maestro Ryuho Okawa, líder y fundador de Happy Science, nos ilustra para encontrar el camino a la felicidad, crear una nueva Era Espiritual y, tomando como base su filosofía, poner en práctica las claves para:
Eliminar las influencias negativas
Hacer realidad los pensamientos
Dejar de ser infeliz
Mejorar las habilidades laborales
Liberarse de preocupaciones
Lograr un mayor nivel de iluminación
Ganar frente al destino
Ser agradecido por lo que se recibe
Alejar la soledad
Alcanzar el éxito continuo
Un libro que nos guiará al territorio de la prosperidad con amor, sabiduría, reflexión y progreso.
Eliminar las influencias negativas
Hacer realidad los pensamientos
Dejar de ser infeliz
Mejorar las habilidades laborales
Liberarse de preocupaciones
Lograr un mayor nivel de iluminación
Ganar frente al destino
Ser agradecido por lo que se recibe
Alejar la soledad
Alcanzar el éxito continuo
Un libro que nos guiará al territorio de la prosperidad con amor, sabiduría, reflexión y progreso.
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Published July 1, 2015
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Ryuho Okawa
1,173 books237 followersRyuho Okawa is a renowned spiritual thinker, leader, and author in Japan with a simple goal: to help people find true happiness and create a better world. To date, Okawa’s books have sold over 100 million copies worldwide and been translated into 31 languages. His books address vital issues such as how our thoughts influence reality, the nature of love, and the path to enlightenment. In 1986, Okawa founded Happy Science as a spiritual movement dedicated to bringing greater happiness to humankind by uniting religions and cultures to live in harmony. Happy Science has grown rapidly from its beginnings in Japan to a worldwide organization. The spiritual workshops Happy Science offers are open to people of all faiths and walks of life and are rooted in the same simple principles of happiness that inspired Okawa’s own spiritual awakening. Okawa is compassionately committed to the spiritual growth of others; in addition to writing and publishing books, he continues to give talks around the world.
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January 13, 2016
Actually, the book WAS amazing, but I cannot in good conscience give 5 stars to some guy who claims to have created mankind and resurrected Jesus Christ. That aside, the book itself says nothing about this. It looks utterly sane, more so than most people I know. Perhaps he wrote this before he got the revelation that he was the Big G?
But as always with Ryuho Okawa's books, I worry that if I praise it, people will run off and worship him as God or Buddha. This seems to have happened to a lot of people who liked his books or benefited from them, and lately the author has rather encouraged this. That is heartbreaking, because I enjoyed the book greatly and has benefited from it more than from most books I can think of. I did not at the time know the full extent of Okawa's blasphemy, but that he considered himself a god from Venus and the reincarnation of Hermes and the Shakyamuni Buddha. There is a saying, attributed to Aristotle, that "no great genius has existed without a touch of madness". And it was clear to me at a brief look that this was the work of a great genius indeed. But from there to claiming to be God the Heavenly Father... well, I don't think I would have benefited much from the book if I knew that.
Specifically it was his writing about our work as a calling, an opportunity to give back love to this world that has allowed us to live even though we were born naked and helpless -- even now few of us can survive for long without the help of other humans. Employment, for those who can at all find it, is our chance to pay back this debt and add some of the divine love that ought to be added to this world by those who have had an encounter with the Truth. He also included some practical advise about how to improve your work, as well as your intellectual ability in general. The whole chapter about acquiring knowledge really opened up a larger bandwidth in my life, and I can now read books that would have been hard for me in my younger years. But the greatest change was in my job.
For a long time I had seen work as a curse that God put on mankind, and one to be shirked whenever I could get away with it. I should have known better, having read the Bible several times, but over the years my heart had been hardened and I had become immune to the Truth. Only when the bright light came in from a different and unexpected angle through this book, did I wake up and repent my wasted work life. From then on, this part of my life has changed. Although I have much to catch up on, my boss and my nearest coworker have both commented on the great improvement in my work and attitude. What is more, I now enjoy going to work on Monday morning, and hope I can continue to improve until my old age.
May all blasphemous authors have such an effect on their readers.
But as always with Ryuho Okawa's books, I worry that if I praise it, people will run off and worship him as God or Buddha. This seems to have happened to a lot of people who liked his books or benefited from them, and lately the author has rather encouraged this. That is heartbreaking, because I enjoyed the book greatly and has benefited from it more than from most books I can think of. I did not at the time know the full extent of Okawa's blasphemy, but that he considered himself a god from Venus and the reincarnation of Hermes and the Shakyamuni Buddha. There is a saying, attributed to Aristotle, that "no great genius has existed without a touch of madness". And it was clear to me at a brief look that this was the work of a great genius indeed. But from there to claiming to be God the Heavenly Father... well, I don't think I would have benefited much from the book if I knew that.
Specifically it was his writing about our work as a calling, an opportunity to give back love to this world that has allowed us to live even though we were born naked and helpless -- even now few of us can survive for long without the help of other humans. Employment, for those who can at all find it, is our chance to pay back this debt and add some of the divine love that ought to be added to this world by those who have had an encounter with the Truth. He also included some practical advise about how to improve your work, as well as your intellectual ability in general. The whole chapter about acquiring knowledge really opened up a larger bandwidth in my life, and I can now read books that would have been hard for me in my younger years. But the greatest change was in my job.
For a long time I had seen work as a curse that God put on mankind, and one to be shirked whenever I could get away with it. I should have known better, having read the Bible several times, but over the years my heart had been hardened and I had become immune to the Truth. Only when the bright light came in from a different and unexpected angle through this book, did I wake up and repent my wasted work life. From then on, this part of my life has changed. Although I have much to catch up on, my boss and my nearest coworker have both commented on the great improvement in my work and attitude. What is more, I now enjoy going to work on Monday morning, and hope I can continue to improve until my old age.
May all blasphemous authors have such an effect on their readers.
July 30, 2024
Review by Blackbird (Current Inmate)
Shifting your mind to one of love towards the betterment of the world around you.
We often tell people that our goal of life is to be happy, but what does happiness even mean to us as an individual? To be “happy” is such a general term that we are constantly in search of the momentary feeling never knowing how to create a life of lasting joy. The spiritual teachings of Ryuho Okawa provide readers the fundamental building blocks to understand wat a life of happiness is and how to spread it to others.
A life centered around the four principles of love, wisdom, self-reflection, and progress helps an individual find balance and happiness in a deeper lasting way. Okawa teaches that these four principles are more than merely catch-phrase to practice when it is convenient, but a way of life that can lead those that devote themselves to their practice to enlightenment. Each of these principles builds upon each other bringing the person dedicates themselves to a closer connection with God and bettering the world we live in.
After reading this book, I better understood the complexity of what love meant toward my fellow person. So often in the past, I would say that I loved many things, but it was always in the sense of what they did for me. Through reading "The Laws of Happiness,” I now see that love requires you to give to others as well. This creates a life of better balance, moving from always looking to take, to looking for ways to give.
As inmates, there is a frequent feeling of searching to be wanted and loved. If we can somehow achieve people wanting us and giving us love, it will create happiness in our minds. So we demand of our families to put money on our books to buy commissary, items in a way to fill a void of love we have. We somehow think that with these material items we will then know we are loved and happy. however, to live a life of love is to understand it requires us to give it openly first. Happiness can stem from loving others properly building up both our lives.
This is a wonderful book for building the needed fundamental principles that bring us closer to God, our families, happiness, and enlightenment.
Shifting your mind to one of love towards the betterment of the world around you.
We often tell people that our goal of life is to be happy, but what does happiness even mean to us as an individual? To be “happy” is such a general term that we are constantly in search of the momentary feeling never knowing how to create a life of lasting joy. The spiritual teachings of Ryuho Okawa provide readers the fundamental building blocks to understand wat a life of happiness is and how to spread it to others.
A life centered around the four principles of love, wisdom, self-reflection, and progress helps an individual find balance and happiness in a deeper lasting way. Okawa teaches that these four principles are more than merely catch-phrase to practice when it is convenient, but a way of life that can lead those that devote themselves to their practice to enlightenment. Each of these principles builds upon each other bringing the person dedicates themselves to a closer connection with God and bettering the world we live in.
After reading this book, I better understood the complexity of what love meant toward my fellow person. So often in the past, I would say that I loved many things, but it was always in the sense of what they did for me. Through reading "The Laws of Happiness,” I now see that love requires you to give to others as well. This creates a life of better balance, moving from always looking to take, to looking for ways to give.
As inmates, there is a frequent feeling of searching to be wanted and loved. If we can somehow achieve people wanting us and giving us love, it will create happiness in our minds. So we demand of our families to put money on our books to buy commissary, items in a way to fill a void of love we have. We somehow think that with these material items we will then know we are loved and happy. however, to live a life of love is to understand it requires us to give it openly first. Happiness can stem from loving others properly building up both our lives.
This is a wonderful book for building the needed fundamental principles that bring us closer to God, our families, happiness, and enlightenment.
November 9, 2017
We all seek happiness, yet we miss it. The wounds to the heart that people suffer during childhood will often come to the surface in different ways after they reach adulthood, which makes for an unhappy life. The reason is that some adults feel because their early life was unhappy and unrewarding, they search for someone to compensate for this, someone to fill the emptiness in their heart.
People who lead their lives feeling these ways are like a bottomless pit; no matter how much they are given, they demand more. Even if society offers them praise, it is never enough. They always demand more, saying, "I want more recognition, more praise. I want a higher position quickly, and a higher salary. I want public acknowledgement." There is no end to their demands and, as a result, they exhaust themselves and people get tired of them.
Wealth and earthly material can't bring happiness. They only provide pleasure. The author provides four principles for achieving human happiness: Love, Wisdom, Self -Reflection and Progress. Each principle has explained the states of human mind and the ways one can reach to true happiness.
This book has certainly enlightened me to understanding what true happiness is and how we can use this to make this world a better place for us and, more importantly, for our children and grandchildren in the future.
People who lead their lives feeling these ways are like a bottomless pit; no matter how much they are given, they demand more. Even if society offers them praise, it is never enough. They always demand more, saying, "I want more recognition, more praise. I want a higher position quickly, and a higher salary. I want public acknowledgement." There is no end to their demands and, as a result, they exhaust themselves and people get tired of them.
Wealth and earthly material can't bring happiness. They only provide pleasure. The author provides four principles for achieving human happiness: Love, Wisdom, Self -Reflection and Progress. Each principle has explained the states of human mind and the ways one can reach to true happiness.
This book has certainly enlightened me to understanding what true happiness is and how we can use this to make this world a better place for us and, more importantly, for our children and grandchildren in the future.
April 23, 2023
"The essence of being human is the ability to change our mind and make decisions of our free will. This essence continues to exist in the other world after the body has disintegrated. Only thinking and ideas remain..."
I just can't describe in words how much I loved the book!
As the title suggests, it talks about happiness, let me tell you it's not just how to be happy, how to get the things that we want, the whole idea of happiness is described properly by the author.
It's about what "happiness" truly is!
I really loved it how the author used different stories and concepts with proper example to describe the core topic.
I loved it how the author talked about so many great personalities as an example and also the religious point of view.
I must say it's so well researched book!
The way the author narrated in simple and lucid manner is just amazing!
It's just a must read!
I just can't describe in words how much I loved the book!
As the title suggests, it talks about happiness, let me tell you it's not just how to be happy, how to get the things that we want, the whole idea of happiness is described properly by the author.
It's about what "happiness" truly is!
I really loved it how the author used different stories and concepts with proper example to describe the core topic.
I loved it how the author talked about so many great personalities as an example and also the religious point of view.
I must say it's so well researched book!
The way the author narrated in simple and lucid manner is just amazing!
It's just a must read!
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