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

Dalai Lama: What is it that reincarnates?

We have been trying to tell everyone. Emptiness (sunyata) means "things are impersonal." It is a mindboggling concept, not to be fathomed by mere reasoning. The Buddha was not Descartes sitting around thinking. He sat cleaning his mind through samadhi then systematically investigated the four scaffolds or foundations of what to be mindful of: those four things assumed to be self: form, feeling, perception, consciousness. He mindfully investigated this body, feelings, mind, and mind-objects.

If not who, WHAT is it that reincarnates? ♡ Excerpts from Dalai Lama and neuroscientists @ Mind and Life

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"The Buddha taught that sentience [feeling, consciousness, sensitivity] is everywhere at varying levels and that humans should have compassion for all sentient beings." - H.H. The Dalai Lama

"By resting his or her mind and contemplating it, a meditator can develop an understanding of the nature of mind and how it relates to everything else." - Traleg Rinpoche

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Happiness Secrets of Scandinavians (video)

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Guru Viking, how can Vikings be happy?

(Max Joseph) May 22, 2024: For more information on Meik Wiking ("Mike Viking"), possibly "the happiest man on earth" [if that title were not already taken by French scientist and Tibetan Vajrayana Buddhist monk in Nepal Ven. Matthieu Ricard], and The Happiness Research Institute: happinessresearchinstitute.com.

CONTENTS

• 0:00 - Journey to Denmark
• 2:30 - The World’s Happiest Man - Meik Wiking
• 3:55 - Happiest Country Rankings
• 4:59 - Hygge and other secrets of Danish happiness
• 7:54 - A second opinion - Helen Russell
• 9:51 - High taxes and trust
• 12:19 - Downsides and upsides
• 13:31 - A different kind of happiness
• 15:10 - Legoland reflections
• 18:23 - Credits

Woo-hoo! Is everyone having a great time, or what? Let's rampage over there to have fun!

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We weren't always as happy as today.

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Neuroscience meets Buddhism: Matt Ricard

(Action for Happiness) Matthieu Ricard and Wolf Singer join Mark Williamson for a discussion of Beyond the Self, sharing insights from Buddhism and neuroscience to help us live happier, more compassionate lives. Filmed in front of a large audience in London on Jan. 29, 2018.

There is no "self"

"Self" (atta=soul, ego) is illusory.

Let's do what the Buddha did and move BEYOND the self. But what is the "self," the ego, soul, personality, identity, consciousness? It is an illusion. We can think of it as our body and mind. But most of us will feel it's a lot more our mind (name, consciousness, awareness, memories) and hardly this ever-changing body. "Mind," the Buddha discerned, is what we cling to as self: feelings, perceptions, mental formations, and consciousness. But none of this is enduring, identical, or able to provide fulfillment. It is something, but it is not a self. The gateless gate to enlightenment is the realization that all that we regard as "self" is actually impersonal. What if psychology knew that? What if neuroscience could test that? Former geneticist Matthieu Ricard and Professor Wolf Singer wrote a book merging neuroscience and Buddhism.

Beyond the Self: Conversations Between Buddhism and Neuroscience

Buddhism meet neuroscience

This book examines converging and diverging views on mind, self, consciousness, free will, unconscious, perception, meditation, and other topics.

Buddhism, on the one hand, shares with science the task of examining the mind empirically. It has pursued, for more than two millennia, direct investigation of the mind through penetrating introspection.

Neuroscience, on the other hand, relies on third-person knowledge in the form of observation. In this book, French Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard, who trained as a molecular biologist, and Prof. Wolf Singer, a distinguished neuroscientist, offer their perspectives on mind, self, consciousness, subconscious, unconscious, free will, epistemology, meditation, and neuroplasticity.

Matthieu Ricard and his dad

Ricard and Singer's wide-ranging conversation is an enlightening and engaging encounter between Buddhism's wealth of experiential findings and neuroscience's abundance of experimental results.

Among many other things, these two good friends discuss

• the difference between rumination and meditation (rumination is the scourge of meditation, whereas psychotherapy depends on it);
• the distinction between the contents of awareness and pure awareness;
• the Buddhist idea (or lack of one) of the unconscious and neuroscience's precise criteria for conscious and subconscious processes; and
• the commonalities between cognitive behavioral therapy and meditation.

Their views diverge. (Ricard asserts that the third-person approach will never encounter consciousness as a primary experience). And they converge. (Singer points out that the neuroscientific understanding of perception as reconstruction is very like the Buddhist all-discriminating wisdom).

But both keep their vision trained on understanding fundamental aspects of human life. More

How simple meditation is (Matt Ricard)

Matthieu Ricard translating for the Dalai Lama

(Talks at Google) French Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard, known to science as the "happiest man in the world," leads a simple meditation on altruistic love and compassion on June 11, 2015 in California.

Ricard left a career in cellular genetics to study Buddhism and become a monk in the Himalayas over 45 years ago. He is an international bestselling author and an active participant in the current scientific research of the effects of meditation on the brain. He lived in Darjeeling, India, and now resides in a monastery in Nepal where he devotes most of his time to 140 humanitarian projects in Tibet, Nepal, and India.

(Head Talks) My life in the Himalayas: Being Friends with Our Own Mind

He's a Westerner and he knows the Dharma

He may be the world's best bridge between modern Western science and ancient Eastern wisdom. He introduces "meditation" (bhavana and dhyana) as a concept and leads a practice that includes mindful breathing, altruistic love, compassion, rejoicing, and impartiality (The Four Divine Abidings). He concludes by emphasizing the value of caring mindfulness. Q&A session follows the meditation.

Looking for Consciousness (Dr. Dispenza)

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What is consciousness?

Matthieu, scientists want to test Buddhist brains meditating. - Should I go blow their minds?

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The brain (rupa) is not the mind. Cittas are.

Neuroscientists asked the Dalai Lama for eight Buddhist meditators to scan their brains in an experiment. What the scientists saw baffled them. There was too much frontal lobe activity. One in particular, they declared, must be "the happiest man in the world."

You want to test 8 meditators?

That may have been Matthieu Ricard, the actual "happiest person in the world." He is a European Vajrayana Buddhist monk from France, a close associate of the 14th Dalai Lama, who lives in the Himalayas in a large Buddhist monastery in Nepal one country over from the Dalai Lama in Dharmsala, India.

Dr. Joe Dispenza uses his own functional definitions of "brain," "mind," and "consciousness," treating them as distinct things.

That is the way they are analyzed int Buddhist psychology and physics (Abhidharma, the "Dharma in Ultimate Terms"). In Buddhism they are called rupa, mano/nama, and vinnana. Of course, they are inseparable, but they are distinguishable.

Let's visit the Dalai Lama lives in Dharmsala.

Physical form: The brain is interdependent with consciousness, which is just a process, an aspect of "mind." (though the physical heart is the real seat of consciousness, the "mind door" in Buddhism, which is a personally verifiable fact anyone can check using this meditation).

The Buddha defined mind-and-body (nama-rupa) in terms of eight elements, though no one seems to have told Dr. Dispenza that.

• "Brain" (body, physical form, ultimate materiality) is comprised of the "Four Great Elements" or mahabhuta (dhatus, the characteristics of matter, "matter" being arrangements of subatomic particles Buddhism calls kalapas).
• Space (akasha-dhatu) is the fifth element.
• "Mind" is four immaterial processes: perception, sensation, formations, and consciousness.
• "Consciousness" is classified as the sixth element in some sutras (i.e., MN 140).

Let's ask Pa Auk Sayadaw to explain. - Good idea

Consciousness is the sixth element? Yes, as if to say that consciousness is a feature of the universe rather than merely a quality or characteristic of mental human experience.

There are other beings (devas, etc.) who also have mind, who are also conscious, but one has to wonder if the animists didn't have it right all along: consciousness is everywhere and, therefore, all things are potentially conscious or aware in some rudimentary sense, like crystals, memory banks, imprint holders.

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Sight is in the eye, consciousness in the heart.

The brain, for Dr. Dispenza and Western neuroscience, is firing and wiring neurons. How do we change our lives? How do we change our habits? This can only be done by breaking negative thoughts, and this is possible by living consciously (mindfully?) We have to become; we have to start living consciously. Let's start by breaking the addiction to negative thoughts.

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BBC: "The Power of Meditation" (video)

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This BBC documentary explores a variety of meditation practices. It includes techniques designed to promote relaxation, build internal energy or "invisible life force" (chi, qi, ki, prana), develop concentration, compassion, love, patience, generosity, and forgiveness.

A particularly ambitious form of meditation aims at effortlessly sustained single-pointed concentration meant to enable its practitioner to enjoy an indestructible sense of well-being while engaging in any life activity.

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World's Happiest Man on Meditation (video)

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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

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