"The art of happiness" Reading Journal Yesterday I continued to read the book “The Art of Happiness,” and I bought the Audible audiobook.I think this kind of writing is more suitable for listening than those non-faction pragmatic books I used to read. The chapter I have read about “what is the nature of human being.” Is gentleness, compassion or selfishness, competing. The chapter also covers the evolution progress about the question in the western world. In the beginning years of the previous century, the thought “the selfishness and competing is the nature of human being” begin to thrive.But after several generations (eg: the Beat Generation) people start doubting the purpose of material centralized lifestyle. At meantime lots of research given us new evidence and new angels towards the nature of human being. In this book Dalai Lama keep the point about human nature “All of us are born to gentleness and compassion, this is our nature, this kind of nature prior to our competing sense and selfishness what caused by learned intelligence”. Dalai’s viewpoint somehow aligned with the spirits of times in western world at least in few decades in last century. I think these kind of common thought is a key factor to define “good society”. I’m speculated whether My country China or western world nowadays fewer people will agree with the idea selfishness is not our nature. Sadly.