Happiness Is a Trainable Skill
Presenter:
Dr. Matthieu Ricard
Time:
20:57
Summary
What is happiness, and how can we all get some? Buddhist monk, photographer and author Matthieu Ricard has devoted his life to these questions, and his answer is influenced by his faith as well as by his scientific turn of mind: We can train our minds in habits of happiness. Interwoven with his talk are stunning photographs of the Himalayas and of his spiritual community.
Transcript
So, I guess this is a result of globalization that you can find Coca Cola teens on top of Everest and Buddhist monk in Monterey. And so, I just came two days ago from the Himalayas, to your kind invitation. So I would like to invite you also for a while to the Himalayas themselves. And to show the place where meditators, like me will begin with being a molecular biologist in Pasteur Institute, and found their way to the mountains.
So these are few images, I was lucky to take his hand be there. This demand Kailash in eastern Tibet wonderful setting. This is for Marlboro country.