5 Ways to be Happy with the Happiest Man on Earth | GQ

my name is Matteo Rica as you can see I'm a booty smoke I began as a scientist and then when I was 26 I went living in the Himalayas where I've been mostly for last 50 years while not worried about anything or a quick if there's some difficulties some hindrance comes in your way if there's a solution just do it if there's no solution there's no point to worry is just compounding your problem relax and think of some other things to do which can be useful and another way where there is a number of fundamental human qualities data extremely crucial for flourishing in life for functioning in the most optimal way like attention loving kindness in a freedom inner peace but we don't see those in the same way that up no we don't we're not born learning out of it and bridle can chance or play badminton but we know that by training we can get better at that the idea that oh I will become compassionate or more a sense of fulfillment and contentment inside of no better or to deal with my emotion and twirls just like that because I always good I want it it's just saying you know I don't want to practice the piano but I really want to play like a dog distract Jenna slit his at carnagie or doing a concert in essence you can't enhance your skill without training and that takes time no magic bullet so I remember when I was 20 it really kind of confused what skills should I training to make sense in my life and that I'm sort of happy to be alive I think that's a very crucial question especially for young people because they have been sort of taken through the system you do your best and sometimes you do it willingly something less willingly then at some point you really have to ask yourself okay but really really matters and someone let that come at the surface I remember a phrase of an older Greek poet Mustafa who said education is not just filling advanced is lighting a flame so I think to find that flame and keep makes sense and it's not always where we think it may be there will be somewhere some skill or some area where you really feel inspired so look for that and then do what's necessary to achieve that so basically it stems from this acoustic cloth may people find happiness on the cause of it why not why not we sing that to everyone why would you want to exclude some because you see if you think of what happiness really is if you say may all beings be happy it doesn't mean may they be happy by doing terrible things cheating others bullying lying because that's not bringing happiness to them and that's not breaking the pinyons to others when you say many people be happy and find the cause of happiness or may people be compassion may people be free from suffering that means also free from anger free from arrogance free from narcissism so altruism is really wishing the real good of people that define the way to flourish and compassion the simple how can you have compassion for a dictator before Bashar al-assad so it doesn't mean oh you know not so bad after all no so yes maybe has some good sighs not that at all or renders its barbaric but the wish you can do may that be remaining so I made a change may is action be prevented without hatred or you may wish that mainly work so that we provide the condition in society to education to care so that these things don't come up of society so you see it's not a just wishing good very soft you just wish we've got hold of suffering take out this root so wherever I go in the world including New York if I can be of little service otherwise why should I stay when should I move I'm perfectly fine my Hermitage facing the Himalayas so why I come down to be of service otherwise waste of time

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Length: 4min 50sec (290 seconds)

Published: Thu Oct 13 2016