Archive for 2012

Tolerance: a Nonviolent Tool to Change the World

By Matthieu Ricard on December 25, 2012

Tolerance goes hand in hand with courage, inner strength, and intelligence, the qualities that alleviate mental suffering and prevent us from falling into negative thinking. If we follow a path of retaliation - ‘an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth' - then, in the words of Gandhi, ‟the world will soon be blind and toothless.” Violence ...

Interview with Vadivu Govind, on how to cultivate happiness - VII

By Matthieu Ricard on December 07, 2012

From a series of private interviews with Matthieu Ricard conducted by Vadivu Govind in Singapore in September 2012, during which she assumed the role of a wealthy leader and posed some thoughts such a leader may have to Matthieu. How do I have a peaceful death? Prepare yourself so that you have no regrets. Think now. The things that ...

Views of India, Bhurma, and Thailand from the air

By Matthieu Ricard on December 02, 2012

The Brahmaputra, flowing through the North-East of India, seen from flight Druk Air from Paro (Bhutan) to Bangkok (Thailand) The Irrawady estuary in Bhurma, seen from a flight from Kathmandu (Nepal) to Bangkok (Thailand) The Thailand coast on the Andaman Sea at sunset, seen from flight Druk Air from Paro (Bhutan) to Bangko...

Interview with Vadivu Govind, on how to cultivate happiness - VI

By Matthieu Ricard on November 28, 2012

From a series of private interviews with Matthieu Ricard conducted by Vadivu Govind in Singapore in September 2012, during which she assumed the role of a wealthy leader and posed some thoughts such a leader may have to Matthieu. I am afraid of death�I try not to think about it. You should think about it but not in a morbid way and g...

Mount Everest, the Roof of the World, from the air

By Matthieu Ricard on November 24, 2012

The Everest Range, the Roof of the World, seen from the captain's cabin on flight Druk Air from Kathmandu (Nepal) to Paro (Bhutan) Mount Everest, the Roof of the World, seen from the captain's cabin on flight Druk Air from Kathmandu (Nepal) to Paro (Bhutan)

Interview with Vadivu Govind, on how to cultivate happiness - V

By Matthieu Ricard on November 19, 2012

From a series of private interviews with Matthieu Ricard conducted by Vadivu Govind in Singapore in September 2012, during which she assumed the role of a wealthy leader and posed some thoughts such a leader may have to Matthieu. There are some people in my life who have spoken the truth to be about my weaknesses. But I felt very uncomfo...

The happiest person in the world?

By Matthieu Ricard on November 11, 2012

Recently, an AFP correspondent who kindly interviewed me in Dolpo in Nepal, recalled the story about how my humble self am the ‟happiest person in the world”. Of course, I told him that this did not really make any sense and was actually a joke I have a hard time freeing myself from. Of course, it is better to be called the happiest perso...