Our minds and happiness - we have a right to be happy!


	Our minds and happiness - we have a right to be happy!

missmelq

3-30-2007 11:35 AM

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psychology, buddhism, social psychoogy, happiness

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Richard Davidson a psychologist has spent the last 15 years focusing on Dalai Lama and the meditating Monks on Tibetan Buddhism.

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