Archive du blog pour Matthieu Ricard

Spirituality and Life Philosophy 1

During the conference on ‟Change Yourself, Change the World”, organized by Emergences in Brussels last September, Pierre Rabhi, a French thinker and pioneer in organic farming, and Matthieu Ricard discussed their views on life. Here is a selection of their

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Words of Alexandre Jollien — 3

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On violence in the media: ‟It is a trivialization of evil which suggests that what is sensational is to takeover the other. However, what is truly sensational is ordinary day to day heroism — a smile given every day to

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Words of Alexandre Jollien – 2

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Can one change: ‟Real change has to be led by example. Nowadays, society makes the success a purely individualistic matter.”

On the crystallization of the self: ‟This is a phenomenon of protection. While believing that one is protecting oneself, we

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Words of Alexandre Jollien – 1

A few days ago, I had the joy of meeting again Alexandre Jollien — a much loved Swiss philosopher who is handicapped from birth — in the quiet of a village in the snow. I asked him questions on a

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Mind and Life XXVI, Mind, Brain and Matter

In January, twenty of the world’s foremost scientists and philosophers, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and other senior Tibetan scholars gathered for a week in South India to discuss Quantum physics, neurosciences, the nature of consciousness, and the applications of

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