Denes Lenard » wisdom http://denes.lenard.ro Sat, 28 Aug 2010 04:41:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Buddhist book and Ted talk http://denes.lenard.ro/2009-11-03/buddhist-book-and-ted-talk/ http://denes.lenard.ro/2009-11-03/buddhist-book-and-ted-talk/#comments Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:23:38 +0000 Denes Lenard http://denes.lenard.ro/?p=189 denes lenardMatthieu Ricard, has a Phd in molecular genetics and was one of Frances most promising scientists. But then he went to the Himalaya and became a Buddhist monk. After a long time he met his father again and had a wonderful dialogue with him, which has been published: the Monk the Philosopher (also available in Romanian). His father is an important french philosopher Jean-François Revel.
The book is great, because it is easy to understand the Buddhist ideas he explains, and because it is a good example of how two people from completely different paradigms can communicate (which is why Dumitru Bortun recommended it at school).

Here is a Ted.com talk by Matthieu Ricard. He combines cognitive psychology with Buddhist ideas on happyness. ted talk

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