(TED.com) What is happiness, and how can we all get some? Buddhist monk, translator, author, and photographer, Matthieu Ricard has devoted his life to these questions. His answer is influenced by his faith as well as by his scientific turn of mind: We can train our minds in habits of happiness. Interwoven with his talk are stunning photographs of the Himalayas and of his spiritual community.
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- Schools Before Buddhism
- "The Buddha" (on PBS)
- "Introduction to Buddhism" (Los Angeles class)
- New Hope to Fight Poverty
- Republicans Committee prefers bondage sex
- Calling Burma's Bluff
- Buddhist leaders attend congress opening
- Buddhist tradition thrives in Austin, Texas
- Holy man resigns over sex scandal
- Ladakh Buddhist monastery values discipline
- Mahavira's 2609th Birth Anniversary
- Door to afterlife from Egyptian tomb found
- Karl Rove branded "war criminal"
- "The Buddha" (film on PBS)
- Teen girl trying to sail around the world
- The CIA's secret prisons
- Third Human Species Found
- Full Moon Observance: Beginning Meditation
- Pope starts "Holy Week" amid sex abuse crisis
- Live on TV: Thai PM vs. anti-gov't protesters
- Earth Hour images from all over the world
- Earth Hour! (today, 8:30 pm)
- Scientology slave "monastery" discovered
- Thailand protesters oust army from the streets
- THE BUDDHA (coming to PBS)
- iPhone app lets callers sidestep AT&T
- Wisdom Network News: Dalai Lama's Sister
- Yoga saves Jennifer Love Hewitt
- "What the Buddha Never Taught"
- First (legal) male prostitute in Nevada quits
- Sex Abuse Goes Off the Rails
- A novel approach to the New Atheism
- Billion new stars discovered
- Karma: Porn, cheating, and celebrity
- Hare Krishna panhandlers banned from LAX
- Two Earthquakes jolt Tibet
- Thai monks, like Burmese monks, protest
- What are the "Numerical Sutras"?
- Buddhism in modern India (video)
- Supersizing Jesus's paltry supper
- Math is for girls!
- Earth: Rising sea swallows Indian island
- Tibetan monk to speak in Knoxville
- News from Space (video)
- New Kinds of Matter, Fairies, Brain Research
- In Thailand, black magic is politics as usual
- Why Lady Gaga?
- HOW TO: Loving-Kindness Meditation
- Strange News about Happiness
- For the Bible tells us so
- Exposing UFOs and a New Physics
- Mummy find in China desert stirs ethnic debate
- Sri Lanka Small Miracle (video)
- Kentucky loses a Buddhist pioneer
- Earth Hour 2010: Are you turning out?
- Animal Realm: Immortal Species Found!
- Racism: Tea Party racists attack Congress
- Protest: 7 years in Iraq is 7 years Too Long
- Investigating an American Conspiracy (video)
- A Glossary of Pali Buddhist Terms
- Google’s last day in China
- The Green Expo 2010
- Catholic priest sex tape with altar boy
- "LIFE" (Discovery Channel)
- News of the Day: The Perfection of Wisdom
- Sex Swami booked by cops in India
- More than 1,000 monks to join Thai protest
- Science proves power of invisibility
- Economic recovery? "The Dollar Bubble" (film)
- Pagan: Burma's abandoned Buddhist kingdom
- Monasteries offer to take in prisoners
- Yoga: sex scandal, trafficking, regulation
- Leprechaun in the News (St. Patrick's Day)
- Tibetan detainees in Nepal start hunger strike
- News of the Day: Bin Laden's Birthday, Zen...
- "Bloody" protest in Thailand (video)
- The Pope's Gay, Child Molesting Scandal
- "Killer Chemtrails: The Shocking Truth" (video)
- Tiger Woods' Sex Addiction on "South Park"
- The 8 Causes of Earthquakes in Buddhism
- What is disturbing the Earth's atmosphere?
- Quake rocks Buddhist offices in Los Angeles
- Thai protesters pour blood outside gov't HQ
- Tamils drop demand for separate homeland
- Nepal's state religion could become Hinduism
- Burmese refugees' grim future in Bangladesh
- Quest for Enlightenment (film short)
- Egyptian tomb discovery unearths spells
- South Dakota: Buddhists in Our Backyard
- Buddhist monks join Bangkok Red Shirt protests
- Censoring former Governor about 9/11
- Thai protesters march on army headquarters
- Friendship as the supreme way of life
- Do you need friends to survive?
- Vatican denies celibacy rule led to sex scandal
- The Vatican's Dragon (child molesting)
- The Vatican's Dragon: Child-Molesting Priests
- Interview: "Capitalism: A Love Story"
- The Dalai Lama as a Higher Power
- Ask a Brahmin: "Sex Gurus"? (Part 1)
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