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
Matthieu Ricard quotes about
evil suffering good-and-evil
Good and evil exist only in terms of the happiness or suffering they create in ourselves and others
buddhism suffering size
What counts is not the enormity of the task, but the size of the courage.
empathy brain suffering
Neuroscience has proven that similar areas of the brain are activated both in the person who suffers and in the one who feels empathy. Thus, empathic suffering is a true experience of suffering.
suffering our-actions ethics
There is no such thing as good and bad in an absolute sense. There is only the good and bad- the harm in terms of happiness and suffering- that our thoughts and our actions do to ourselves and others.
suffering mind translate
Isn't it the mind that translates the outer condition into happiness and suffering?
buddhism mind suffering
That's what Buddhism has been trying to unravel - the mechanism of happiness and suffering. It is a science of the mind.
mean buddhism suffering
Simplifying our lives does not mean sinking into idleness, but on the contrary, getting rid of the most subtle aspect of laziness: the one which makes us take on thousands of less important activities.
buddhism envy suffering
Envy and jealousy stem from the fundamental inability to rejoice at someone else's happiness or success
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.
buddhism suffering
Nothing goes right on the outside when nothing is going right on the inside.
meditation research science-research
I got really involved in science research and the science of meditation.
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.
love music heart
It is in learning music that many youthful hearts learn to love.
goal confusion meditation
The goal of meditation is precisely to make your mind smooth and manageable so that it can be concentrated or relaxed at will; and especially to free it from the tyranny of mental afflictions and confusion