– Matthieu Ricard, molecular biologist, Bhuddist monk, translator to the Dalai Lama, best-selling author, and photographer, spent the evening of October 16, 2009, at swissnex San Francisco for a closed, private dinner, where he spoke on Compassion in Action.
Ricard is founder of Karuna-Shechen, a charitable foundation that provides medical, social, and educational services in the Himalayan region. Brain scans done by neuroscientists at the University of Wisconsin peg him as the happiest man on Earth.
– 01. Introduction – 00 min 13 sec
– 02. How One Deals with Current Events – 02 min 06 sec
– 03. Need for Altruism in Our World – 02 min 16 sec
– 04. The Cognitive Aspect of Suffering – 03 min 22 sec
– 05. Pursuit of an Unselfish Happiness – 03 min 09 sec
– 06. Interdependence Grounds Love and Compassion – 02 min 23 sec
– 07. Potential to Change from Within – 02 min 33 sec
– 08. Training for Unconditional Love – 03 min 09 sec
– 09. Meditation: Exercising the Mind – 01 min 45 sec
– 10. Personal Experience in Philanthropy – 03 min 51 sec
– 11. About the Karuna-Shechen Organization – 03 min 51 sec
– 12. The Bamboo School Project in Nepal – 03 min 44 sec
– 13. Nepal’s Shechen Clinic and Service Programs – 01 min 04 sec
– 14. Projects Changing Remote Tibet – 08 min 05 sec
– 15. U.S. Involvement with Foreign Aid – 03 min 34 sec
– 16. Q1: Karuna-Schechen Building Schools – 01 min 53 sec
– 17. Q2: Working Under Political Corruption – 01 min 22 sec
– 18. Q3: Relationship Between Nepal and Tibet – 00 min 33 sec
– 19. Q4: Limitations of Expanding Projects – 03 min 04 sec
– 20. Q5: Strategy to Problem Solving – 01 min 54 sec
– 21. Concluding Remarks – 01 min 01 sec
