http://www.ted.com What is happiness, and how can we all get some? Buddhist monk, photographer and author Matthieu Ricard has devoted his life to these questions, and his answer is influenced...
========== So, I guess it is a result
of globalization that you can find Coca-Cola tins
on top of Everest and a Buddhist monk in Monterey. (Laughter) And so I just came,
two days ago, from the Himalayas to your kind invitation. So I would like to invite you, also,
for a while, to the Himalayas themselves. And to show the place
where meditators, like me, who began with being a molecular biologist
in Pasteur Institute, and found their way to the mountains. So these are a few images
I was lucky to take and be there. There's Mount Kailash
in Eastern Tibet -- wonderful setting. This is from Marlboro country. (Laughter) This is a turquoise lake. A meditator. This is the hottest day of the year
somewhere in Eastern Tibet, on August 1. And the night before, we ca...