«Happiness can be trained» explained by Matthieu Ricard, Buddhist monk with a PhD. in Cellular Genetics:
The reality of “happiness can be trained” in Switzerland in the Tibet Institute Rikon where Buddhist monks sing their moring prayer:
- Another option is to go to a Buddhist Monastry elsewhere as a monk and train it there.
- But ill can take between 13 – 20 years of full-time training.
- If you’re budget allows and you find a funder, go for it.
Here you can see how happy Matthieu Ricard is on TED where he talks about a paper which was published in 2004 in PNAS. So we have to assume that this paper was taken around the year 2004:
Here we can see Matthieu Ricard on a picture which was taken in the year 2008 which can be found on Wikipedia:
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthieu_Ricard
And here we can see how happy Matthieu Ricard is on YouTube in the year 2024 :