Matthieu Ricard
Matthieu Ricard
Matthieu Ricardis a French writer and Buddhist monk who resides at Shechen Tennyi Dargyeling Monastery in Nepal...
NationalityFrench
ProfessionClergyman
Date of Birth15 February 1946
CountryFrance
love-life essentials oneself
To love oneself is to love life. It is essential to understand that we make ourselves happy in making others happy.
maturity skills long
Happiness is the result of inner maturity. It depends on us alone, and requires patient work, carried out from day to day. Happiness must be built, and this requires time and effort. In the long term, happiness and unhappiness are therefore a way of being, or a life skill.
compassion impact meditation
If we dedicate a certain amount of time each day to cultivating compassion or any other positive quality, we are likely to attain results, just like when we train the body... Meditation consists of familiarizing ourselves with a new way of being, of managing our thoughts and the way we perceive the world. Through the recent advances in neuroscience it is now possible to evaluate these methods and to verify their impact on the brain and body.
suffering matter causes
We all have the ability to study the causes of suffering and gradually to free ourselves from them....it is not the magnitude of the task that matters, it's the magnitude of our courage.
brain training
Anyone can be happy by simply training their brain
hatred mind negative
Negative emotions like hatred destroy our peace of mind.
suffering mind translate
Isn't it the mind that translates the outer condition into happiness and suffering?
compassion our-words our-actions
Wisdom and compassion should become the dominating influences that guide our thoughts , our words, and our actions.
buddhism suffering size
What counts is not the enormity of the task, but the size of the courage.
profound world way
Happiness can’t be reduced to a few agreeable sensations. Rather, it is a way of being and of experiencing the world—a profound fulfillment that suffuses every moment and endures despite inevitable setbacks.