{"id":69816,"date":"2017-09-16T13:23:33","date_gmt":"2017-09-16T20:23:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/?p=69816"},"modified":"2017-09-16T13:23:33","modified_gmt":"2017-09-16T20:23:33","slug":"what-is-happiness-and-how-can-we-all-get-some","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/2017\/09\/16\/what-is-happiness-and-how-can-we-all-get-some\/","title":{"rendered":"What is happiness, and how can we all get some?"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2 class=\" l-h:n m-b:1 \"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><em><a class=\" f-w:700 l-h:t f:1 t-d:n \" href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/speakers\/matthieu_ricard\">Matthieu Ricard<\/a><span class=\"d:n d:i@md\">\u00a0\u00b7\u00a0<\/span><span class=\" d:b d:i@md c:gray-d f:.9 \">Monk, author, photographer<\/span><\/em><\/span><\/h2>\n<p class=\" l-h:n m-b:1 \">What is happiness, and how can we all get some? Biochemist turned Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard says we can train our minds in habits of well-being, to generate a true sense of serenity and fulfillment.<\/p>\n<p class=\" f:.9 f-s:i l-h:n m-t:2 \">This talk was presented at an official TED conference, and was featured by our editors on the home page.<\/p>\n<div>\u00a0<a class=\" f-w:700 l-h:t f:1 t-d:n \" href=\"https:\/\/www.ted.com\/speakers\/matthieu_ricard\">Matthieu Ricard<\/a><span class=\"d:n d:i@md\">\u00a0\u00b7\u00a0<\/span><span class=\" d:b d:i@md c:gray-d f:.9 \">Monk, author, photographer<\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\" Grid__cell w:3of4@md a-s:c \">\n<p class=\" d:n d:b@md l-h:n m-b:.5 \">Sometimes called the &#8220;happiest man in the world,&#8221; Matthieu Ricard is a Buddhist monk, author and photographer.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Matthieu Ricard: The habits of happiness\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.ted.com\/talks\/matthieu_ricard_the_habits_of_happiness\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matthieu Ricard\u00a0\u00b7\u00a0Monk, author, photographer What is happiness, and how can we all get some? Biochemist turned Buddhist monk Matthieu Ricard says we can train our minds in habits of well-being, to generate a true sense of serenity and fulfillment. This talk was presented at an official TED conference, and was featured by our editors on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buddhism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69816","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69816\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lankaweb.com\/news\/items\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}