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Preserving Health: How Our Programs Inform, Empower, and Promote Well-being
For rural populations in India and Nepal, prevention is the best medicine. Karuna-Shechen focuses on prevention by informing and training villagers on proper nutrition, first aid, and hygiene practices, with a special focus on women and girls.
Karuna-Shechen’s Nutrition Program aims to prevent malnutrition by increasing awareness, information, and training in remote and under-served communities. Their First Aid Response program trains villagers to respond to the health needs of their neighbors, making communities healthier, safer, and more self-reliant. They also foster greater awareness among rural women and break taboos surrounding female health issues through their Health and Hygiene program.
Learn more about how Matthieu Ricard’s organization, Karuna-Shechen, is preserving health and promoting the well-being of people in need in the Himalayas :
http://karuna-shechen.org/news/preserving-health/
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The Bigger the Ego, the More Vulnerable We Are - Part 3
By Matthieu Ricard on March 26, 2019What was your new life like when you became a disciple? Kangyur Rinpoche taught me various practices: meditations, visualizations, reflection exercises on eternity, death, the value of life. He advised me to learn Tibetan. I first focused on the exercises and then on the language. I stayed with him until his death. My second teacher, Dil...
The Bigger the Ego, the More Vulnerable We Are - Part 2
By Matthieu Ricard on March 11, 2019Buddhism is a training of the mind. Can you explain what this means? It is about abolishing the origin of suffering. What is the point of teaching if it doesn't bring relief? A lot of suffering is "mind-made", created in the head, in our thoughts. In meditation, we learn to recognize the feelings that cause it such as anger, pride or jea...
It’s Time to Enter the “Age of the Woman”
By Matthieu Ricard on February 25, 2019Until twelve thousand years ago, before humans had developed agriculture and animal husbandry, people lived in small hunter-gatherer societies that displayed equality, reciprocity, and cooperation between the sexes. A few thousand years later our world, and the place of women in society, had changed. One of the many challenges contemporary...
This week
Half a century in the Himalayas
The Makalu (8,463 metres, 27,760 feet) seen during a flight from Kathmandu to Paro (Bhutan). It is located about twenty kilometres away from Mount ...
Thought of the week
All the joy the world contains
Has come through wishing happiness for others.
All the misery the world contains
Has come from wanting pleasure for oneself.
SHANTIDEVA (685-763)
The Way of the Bodhisattva,chap. 8, verses 129-130.
Articles
WGS 2018: World-Renowned Author opens Landmark Summit with Plea for Compassion and Altruism
Published on February 11, 2018Sharjah 24: Matthieu Ricard, philosopher and best-selling author of books on happiness and compassion, inaugurated the first day of the World Government Summit 2018 by asking the assembled audienc...
3 lessons I learned from the Tibetan monk who works with the Dalai Lama and went viral as 'the happiest man alive'
Published on January 08, 2018I sat down with Matthieu Ricard, a Tibetan Buddhist monk who found himself famous among the TED Talk set and reluctantly decided to use the spotlight to share teachings.
Videos
The Science of Mind & Reality - Matthieu Ricard and Wolf Singer
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Towards a More Equal World: Our Programs for and with Women
Published on February 28, 2019Women play a key role in reducing poverty and inequality, and creating a more altruistic world. Karuna-Shechen gives Indian and Nepalese women the opportunity to embody that change: for themselves, th...
Women: key players in development
Published on February 26, 2019Many social disparities exist in our society, particularly between men and women, in areas of education, health services, professional opportunities, and justice. In fact, out of 796 million illite...