West side of the Dhaulagiri range (Nepal, April 2015)…
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The Dhaulagiri range, by Matthieu Ricard – 1
West side of the Dhaulagiri range (Nepal, April 2015)…
Read moreBanning Bullfights: Taking One Step toward Civilization
In voting to ban bullfights, Catalan Parliamentarians have launched a national debate in Spain. Those who support bullfights put forward two arguments: bullfighting is a cultural tradition as well as an art. However, to kill is not an art, and …
Read moreWonder and Sorrow
For years ornithologists were intrigued by the fact that bar-tailed godwits (a species of waders, in the family of birds who live principally near water, but who cannot land on or dive in water to fish) became so fat before …
Read moreOur Attitude toward Death (Part 3) — To be continued
(Radio Canada interview)
Because they have the notion of a ‟stream of consciousness,” Buddhists see death as a transition, whereas, in the West, death is experienced in a very different way: if at times there are funerals with inspirational moments …
Read moreOur Attitude toward Death (Part 2) — To be continued.
(Radio Canada interview)
To think about death is a healthy process, which is neither sad nor morbid. It shows lucidity because, otherwise, to mask reality is inevitably a source of frustration: when our death will approach and that of those …
Read moreOur Attitude toward Death (Part 1) — To be continued
(Radio Canada interview)
Question: The Western world seems to be suffering from a sense of great reluctance regarding both the contemplation of death and its attitude toward it; death has become a taboo subject, one that is increasingly the …
Read moreMachapuchare, by Matthieu Ricard
Machapuchare, “Fish Tail” (22943 feet’) in the Annapurna Range, Nepal (March 2015)…
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