The Overlooked Habit of Mind Training

What is happiness, and how can we all get some?

Photo by Gilles Rolland-Monnet on Unsplash

There’s good and bad news when it comes to happiness. Photographer and author Matthieu Ricard, who left a career as a molecular biologist to become a Buddhist monk, has devoted his life to the question of how we can train our minds. His answer is influenced by his faith as well as by his scientific turn of mind: We can…