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Matthieu Ricard [1946-0] French

Rank: 103
Clergyman, Writer

Matthieu Ricard is a French writer and Buddhist monk who resides at Shechen Tennyi Dargyeling Monastery in Nepal.
Matthieu Ricard grew up among the personalities and ideas of French intellectual circles.

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Empathy is the faculty to resonate with the feelings of others. When we meet someone who is joyful, we smile. When we witness someone in pain, we suffer in resonance with his or her suffering.	Smile	101
Negative emotions like hatred destroy our peace of mind.	Peace	102
Mind training is based on the idea that two opposite mental factors cannot happen at the same time. You could go from love to hate. But you cannot, at the same time - toward the same object, the same person - want to harm and want to do good.		103
Neuroscience has proven that similar areas of the brain are activated both in the person who suffers and in the one who feels empathy. Thus, empathic suffering is a true experience of suffering.		104
That's what Buddhism has been trying to unravel - the mechanism of happiness and suffering. It is a science of the mind.		105
I got really involved in science research and the science of meditation.		106

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