Excepts from Matthieu Ricard’s Latest TED Talk, October 2014.

We have an extraordinary potential for goodness, but also an immense power to do harm. Any tool can be used to build or to destroy, and it all depends on our …

West side of the Dhaulagiri range (Nepal, April 2015)…

West side of the Dhaulagiri range (Nepal, April 2015)…

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 …

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 …

(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 …

(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 …

(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 …

Machapuchare, “Fish Tail” (22943 feet’) in the Annapurna Range, Nepal (March 2015)…