BITESIZE | A Monk’s Guide To Finding Happiness & Cultivating Inner Peace | Haemin Sunim #595

Welcome to Feel Better, Live More Bite-size, your weekly dose of positivity and optimism to get you ready for the weekend. Today's clip is from episode 476 of the podcast with Buddhist monk Haman Sunim. Heyman is a Zen Buddhist teacher and the author of two Sunday Times best-selling books, including The Beautiful When Things Don't Go Your Way, Zen Wisdom for Difficult Times. In this clip, he shares some of his top tips and practical insights to live a better life. You also write in the book about three tips for a better life.

The first one of those tips is don't ask what others have said about you. Great tip. Can you explain why you recommend that? Um when we are young, you know, we tend to think about uh we are so concerned about how other people are saying things about me.

But as we get older and older and we become wiser, that is, um, they don't really think about me that much, you know, because I don't think about them, you know, that often. Even if I do, it's not for a long period of time. We just tend to just assume that everybody is looking at me and judging me and think about how, you know, my clothing is not good or the way I talk is not good or whatever. But that's not true, you know?

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