What if we told you there was a man who had unlocked the secret to human joy? That despite all the pain and suffering and bad news out there, a monk on a mountaintop in Nepal has discovered a kind of template for How to Be Happy ? We needed to meet “The Happiest Man in the World.” (Please don’t call him that). So we sent Michael Paterniti to the hinterlands to learn how we all might make our lives a bit happier.
Press Reviews
- A Buddhist Monk Shows “Unheard Of” Brain Activity During Meditation
- Project Syndicate « The Path to Altruism »
- Huffington Post « Why A Monk, A Neuroscientist And A Movie Star Are Giving Advice To The Business Elite »
- Bloomberg News « El-Erian Told to Chill by Monk Teaching Davos Meditation »
- Press articles (in French) following the seminar on “the Animal and Us”
- L’Avenir.net: an article (in French) on a visit by Matthieu Ricard to Belgian students in Ath.
- The critical review (in French) by Léa Durupt of the workshop by Chade-Meng Tan and Matthieu Ricard on April 30, 2014, in Paris
- “My friends tease me: Here comes Mr Happy”
- Podcast: Matthieu Ricard on happiness
- What the world needs now: altruism
- A review by David Barash on altruism
- Ayn Rand killed the American dream: our free-market economy only works for the 1 percent
- The Path from Personal Transformation to Societal Change
- Things to do with Matthieu Ricard, on Time Out
- Hanging out with ‘the world’s happiest man’ taught me something profound about human nature
- A 69-year-old monk who scientists call the ‘world’s happiest man’ says the secret to being happy takes just 15 minutes a day
- The monk scientists call the ‘world’s happiest man’ reveals his secret
- ‘Waging War, Eating Meat, Capitalism – Evidence Of A Harrowing Lack Of Imagination’
- 4 Inspiring Quotes From ‘A Plea for the Animals’
- Matthieu Ricard’s “A Plea for the Animals” Is a Must Read
- A Plea for the Animals: The Moral, Philosophical, and Evolutionary Imperative to Treat All Beings with Compassion
- Why I Am A Vegetarian
- World’s Happiest Man is Vegan
- Matthieu Ricard’s Journey to Compassion
- Too Much Too Fast: Why It’s Time for Humans to Slow Down
- How to be happy, per the Happiest Man in the World
- A Case For Freedom of Expression Based on Altruism
- Contemplating happiness with Matthieu Ricard
- Happiness as Human Flourishing
- Neuroscience Has a Lot To Learn from Buddhism
- 3 lessons I learned from the Tibetan monk who works with the Dalai Lama and went viral as ‘the happiest man alive’
- WGS 2018: World-Renowned Author opens Landmark Summit with Plea for Compassion and Altruism
- Matthieu Ricard: ‘Eternity is awfully long, especially near the end’
- The ‘World’s Happiest Man’ Shares His Three Rules for Life – The New York Times