Life Hacks from the Buddha (Living by the Buddha's Words): 15 Buddhist Lessons That Lighten Your Life 부처님 말씀대로 살아보니: 인생이 가벼워지는 15가지 불교 수업

"The Buddha was humanity's first psychologist, dissecting the human mind."
A user's guide to the mind, tested by one of the most popular psychiatrists in Australia and New Zealand through actual clinical practice and monastic training
A much-discussed work that explains the Buddha's methods of mind training by connecting them with modern psychology

As we live our lives, there are moments when we are walking along a smooth road and suddenly, with a crash, we unknowingly run into an obstacle or fall into a pit. Sometimes, no matter how careful we are, someone else crashes into us. Life Pattern Korea. How, then, can we pass smoothly along the road of life, where danger lies hidden everywhere?
Tony Fernando, a popular psychiatrist in Australia and New Zealand, has spent 20 years meeting patients who came to him with their own problems of the mind. Even though they lived in Australia and New Zealand, often counted among the most livable countries in the world, people were never free from dissatisfaction and anxiety about life, and they came to him because they could not endure their suffering and stress. Life Pattern Korea.
Tony Fernando was no different. Although he believed he was living a perfect life, he too had to spend days of anxiety and suffering while pursuing more happiness and more comfort. So he began to study one person who had fundamentally explored human suffering. Life Pattern Korea. That person was the Buddha, who had seen through the workings of the mind 2,600 years ago and spent his life training the mind.

What changed in the life of a world-class mental health specialist after applying the Buddha's teachings

The author, who let go of everything and entered monastic life in order to study the Buddha's teachings in detail, says this: "The Buddha's enlightenment was not a mystical revelation. The Buddha closely observed how the human mind creates suffering, and systematically explained through what paths anger and anxiety, attachment and addiction arise, and why they repeat." Life Pattern Korea.
Surprisingly, this approach by the Buddha is not very different from the core questions handled by modern psychiatry today. In fact, the Buddha diagnosed the human mind like an illness, identified its causes, and presented concrete methods for reducing suffering. Life Pattern Korea. He named the cause of suffering "dukkha," and explained the state in which thoughts amplify uncontrollably as "papanca." In modern psychiatry, dukkha connects with "stress," and papanca connects with "overthinking."
This is a user's guide to the mind for our time, combining the author's experience of directly practicing the Buddha's teachings through monastic life with the psychological knowledge he has applied in clinical practice for 20 years. It shows how desire, thoughts, emotions, and relationships become entangled with one another and increase suffering, and how that chain can be loosened. Life Pattern Korea. As readers follow how insights from 2,600 years ago connect with today's knowledge of mental health, the Buddha's words begin to read as one of the most realistic guides to the mind for people living today.
For those who have steadily read psychology books to manage their minds but still find their emotions swinging wildly, those who are looking not for vague comfort but for concrete ways to reduce suffering, those who feel burdened by religion but are looking for words that can support their lives, and those who are seeking a new attempt at inner peace, such as meditation, this book will become the most realistic guide. Life Pattern Korea.

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Author: 토니 페르난도, 강정선
Publisher: 윌마 Wilma (2026)

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