Buddhist monk left Science: Matthieu Ricard

(Study Buddhism) The Western Nepalese Vajrayana Buddhist monk (lama) who left Western science behind: Dr. Matthieu "Happiest Person in the World" Ricard on finding human perfection

Why 'meditation' feels hard (Dr. Ricard)

(Study Buddhism) Why "meditation" [striving, straining, struggling to get into absorption] feels so hard (and what to do about it) | [Western scientist and Vajrayana Buddhist lama] Ven. Matthieu Ricard [known as "the happiest person in the world"*]. "There is no Samsara 2.0."

Who is he?

Sure, I'm happy, but the happiest?

Matthieu Ricard (French matjø ʁikaʁ, Nepali माथ्यु रिका, born Feb. 15, 1946) is a French Nepalese writer, photographer, translator, and Buddhist monk (lama) who resides at Shechen Tennyi Dargyeling Monastery in Nepal.

Dr. Matthieu Ricard grew up among the personalities and ideas of French intellectual circles. He received a PhD degree in molecular genetics from the Pasteur Institute in 1972.

He then decided to avoid a common scientific career and instead did the daring thing and took up the practice of Tibetan Buddhism (Vajrayana Bon), living mainly in the Himalayas.

Matthieu Ricard is a board member of the Mind and Life Institute. He received the French National Order of Merit for his humanitarian work in the East with Karuna-Shechen, the non-profit organization he co-founded in 2000 with Rabjam Rinpoche.

Since 1989, he has acted as the French interpreter for the 14th Dalai Lama. Since 2010, he has been traveling and giving a series of talks with and assisting in teachings by Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche, the incarnation of Kyabje Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche....

*Matthieu Ricard has been called the "happiest person in the world" [4, 5]. Why?

It is because Matthieu Ricard was a volunteer subject in a study performed at the University of Wisconsin–Madison on happiness. He scored significantly above the average of hundreds of volunteers [4].

Matthieu Ricard, however, has called the label "absurd" and untrue [6, 7]. More

Final war in Tartaria against non-humans

(Tartaria History) The final war of Tartaria was fought against something inhuman

Advanced Tartarian architecture appropriated

Were strong Blacks from Africa and elsewhere, particularly the indigenous of the Americas, exploited and used to replace other "giant" humans, perhaps advanced Tartarians? Nations gave a final order for their removal, their containment, removal, liquidation, and utter erasure from the historical record? The Great Wall of China was not built by China but, apparently, to keep the [barbaric] Chinese out [or keep giant "Tartarians" contained] because the turrets are facing the wrong direction in some places. More crucial to the discussion than the existence of giants, extraterrestrials, antediluvian Atlanteans or others (cannibals who eat meat with original formula tartar sauce), or anything else is the systematic erasure of the historical record. That cannot be denied. Why history was erased, even as legend and rumor linger, is a separate question to speculate about. That this part of it was erased is now undeniable. The evidence is in the remnant architecture and fragments in records that can still be pieced together by dogged determination.

World's Happiest Man on Meditation (video)

Google Talks 2015; The RSA 2010; Amber Larson, Crystal Quintero (eds.), Wisdom Quarterly

Matthieu Ricard: The Art of Meditation

The "world's happiest man" -- as tested, verified, and labeled by neuroscience -- Tibetan Buddhist monk (lama), vegan, and French philosopher Matthieu Ricard explains how we can train our minds in habits of well-being.

World's Happiest Man?

Ven. Matthieu Ricard

Matthieu Ricard (माथ्यु रिका) is a French Buddhist monk, scientist, writer, photographer, and translator reborn on Feb. 15, 1946, who resides at Shechen Tennyi Dargyeling Monastery in Nepal. He grew up among the personalities of French intellectual circles and received his Ph.D. degree in molecular genetics from the Pasteur Institute in 1972. He then decided to forsake his scientific career and instead practice Tibetan Buddhism, while living mainly in the Himalayas. He is a board member of the Mind and Life Institute. He received the French National Order of Merit for his humanitarian work in the East with Karuna-Shechen, a non-profit organization he co-founded in 2000 with Rabjam Rinpoche. Since 1989 he has been the 14th Dalai Lama's French interpreter. More

(The RSA) WHY in the world would anyone want to meditate and HOW?

• RSA on twitter.com/thersaorg and facebook.com/thersaorg

• Why are you called the "Happiest Man in the World"?
• How to be happier: world's happiest man (Business Insider)
• How to be happy, explains World's Happiest Man (Esquire)
• VIDEO: Happiest man in world explains true happiness 
• Matthieu Ricard: The Habits of Happiness (TED Talk) 
• Matthieu Ricard: World's Happiest Man on what really matters (Good Life Project)
• Five tips from the "Happiest Man on Earth" (BBC News) 
• Who is the happiest person in the world? (Quora) 
• The "world's happiest man" reveals the secret to happiness takes... (countryliving.com/uk)

Origin of Universe (Buddhism and Einstein)

Wisdom Quarterly; Andreas Mamet, 2013

The Origin of the Universe through the eyes of Gautama Buddha and Albert Einstein (Part 1) in English with French translation. Continues in Part 2

The Happiest Man in the World (interview)

Matthieu Ricard, Buddhist monk - Interview

Thirty years ago Matthieu Ricard, the son of French philosopher Jean-François Revel, decided to convert to Buddhism and become a monk. He now lives in Nepal and is the French interpreter for the Dalai Lama (france24.com).