Happiness: Life Most Important Skill

Happiness: Life Most Important Skill, Matthieu Ricard. Tr: Jesse Browner; LB Co, New York, 2006

By Christian H

WHAT IS HAPPINESS? Some might claim it's the ultimate goal of human experience. Some are more practical, and reduce it to sensory pleasurable experiences. Matthieu Ricard's compelling evidence argues for the former. He's not alone. Actually, the party grows bigger: not only the Buddhist community advocates that posture but, more recently, mainstream science. It's all part of what we might call the new major translation of Buddhism: From mystic, esoteric Tibet, to rigorous, scientific Western world, ostensibly, America.