Matthieu Ricard, a French genetic scientist, is the world’s happiest man, according to researchers.
As per Top 7 Tips for Meditation from the World’s Happiest Man article in "The Way of Meditation", Ricard, now 66 years old, left Paris to study Buddhism and become a monk in India 40 years ago. He is now very close to Dalai Lama and a religious scholar.
As per Top 7 Tips for Meditation from the World’s Happiest Man article in "The Way of Meditation", Ricard, now 66 years old, left Paris to study Buddhism and become a monk in India 40 years ago. He is now very close to Dalai Lama and a religious scholar.
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"Neuroscientist Richard Davidson wired up the monk’s skull with 256 sensors at the University of Wisconsin as part of research on hundreds of advanced practitioners of meditation. The scans showed that when meditating on compassion, Ricard’s brain produces a level of gamma waves – those linked to consciousness, attention, learning and memory – ‘never reported before in the neuroscience literature’... The scans also showed excessive activity in his brain’s left prefrontal cortex compared to its right counterpart, giving him an abnormally large capacity for happiness and a reduced propensity towards negativity, researchers believe".
I read the "Art of Happiness" by Dalai Lama some months ago. Upon browsing through the previously mentioned article, I instantly flashed back to a lot of concepts discussed in the book, For instance, compassion, according to Dalai Lama, is vital for happiness and is a fresh and genuine approach to soothing communication and tolerance amid humans.
Why couldn't be happier if not the happiest? Let's give it a try :)
