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This episode redefines happiness as a cultivated inner state, distinct from fleeting pleasures, offering a path to resilient well-being through mental training and compassion.
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“This episode redefines happiness as a cultivated inner state, distinct from fleeting pleasures, offering a path to resilient well-being through mental training and compassion.”
— Matthieu Ricard, Happiness
Inner well-being, mental cultivation, compassion
If you often find yourself chasing the next thing, only to feel a familiar emptiness once you get it, this will clarify why, and this will help you see what to do next.
Matthieu Ricard, a molecular biologist who became a Buddhist monk, brings a rare, scientifically informed perspective to happiness, rooted in decades of contemplative practice and deep philosophical inquiry.