Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life’s Most Important Skill

快樂可以學習，精神可以改變

《僧侶與哲學家》作者最新力作！

沈潛三十年領悟出的幸福心得，助你掌握改變人生的關鍵技巧。

　　「在我們自身之外找尋快樂，就像在面北的洞口等待陽光一樣。」───西藏諺語

　　每個人都想要快樂，但想像和達成之間有很大的落差。我們害怕悲慘，卻奔向它。我們想要快樂，卻遠離它。這樣的誤判是如何產生的？

　　從生物學博士轉為藏傳佛教喇嘛的馬修．李卡德(Matthieu Ricard)，經過在印度潛心研修三十五年之後，提出結合最新科學理論的《快樂學》。他從親身經歷出發，主張快樂不在於外在環境，而是一種能力，一種生存的態度，我們必須學習。

　　繼《僧侶與哲學家》、《僧侶與科學家》之後，李卡德這本最新著作，是他近年來與許多腦神經科學家和認知科學家，以及佛教僧侶如達賴喇嘛等，一起對「心的轉化」進行大量研究的結果。他們以科學的方法研究禪修者多年修心後的效果，發現長年禪修者，會在腦部造成永久的變化，左前額葉外皮區的活動會明顯增加，帶來正面情緒，例如喜悅和熱情。

　　李卡德主張，每一個生命都具有完美圓滿的潛能，就像每一粒芝麻都含滿了油一樣。當我們走向心靈道路，開始精進地修行，過了數月或數年之後，會達到關鍵性的轉折點，我們可以成為更好的人，也會對別人的快樂有所貢獻。

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　　「在《快樂學》中，李卡德巧妙地結合他所熟悉的科學、哲學和佛學智慧，以既實用又富有啟發性的洞見，提出一個完善的路徑圖，引導我們切實修練真正的幸福。」    
───丹尼爾．高曼，暢銷書《EQ》作者

In this groundbreaking book, Matthieu Ricard makes a passionate case for happiness as a goal that deserves as least as much energy as any other in our lives.
Wealth? Fitness? Career success? How can we possibly place these above true and lasting well-being? Drawing from works of fiction and poetry, Western philosophy, Buddhist beliefs, scientific research, and personal experience, Ricard weaves an inspirational and forward-looking account of how we can begin to rethink our realities in a fast-moving modern world. With its revelatory lessons and exercises, Happiness is an eloquent and stimulating guide to a happier life.

作者簡介

馬修．李卡德（Matthieu Ricard）

　　生於1946年。巴黎巴斯特學院分子生物學博士。

　　1972年，放棄科學家生涯成為僧侶，開始過心靈的生活，因此就在喜馬拉雅山區定居下來，跟著西藏大師學習，過著佛教僧侶的生活已有三十餘年。
　　

　　出家前曾寫過一本鳥類遷移的著作，另著有《頓悟之旅》、《僧侶與哲學家》、《僧侶與科學家》、《量子和蓮花》，其中《僧侶與哲學家》是他與享譽法國的哲學家父親──尚˙方斯華˙何維爾針對佛教和生命的意義展開對話，在法國熱銷了30萬冊。

Matthieu Ricard is a Buddhist monk, an author, translator, and photographer. He has lived, studied, and worked in the Himalayan region for over forty years. The son of French philosopher Jean-François Revel and artist Yahne Le Toumelin, Matthieu was born in France in 1946 and grew up among the personalities and ideas of Paris’ intellectual and artistic circles. He earned a Ph.D. degree in cell genetics at the renowned Institut Pasteur under the Nobel Laureate Francois Jacob.

In 1967, he traveled to India to meet great spiritual masters from Tibet. After completing his doctoral thesis in 1972, he decided to concentrate on Buddhist studies and practice. Since then, he has lived in India, Bhutan, and Nepal and studied with some of the greatest teachers of that tradition. He is the author of several books including The Monk and the Philosopher, a dialogue with his father; The Quantum and the Lotus, a dialogue with the astrophysicist Trinh Xuan Thuan; Happiness: A Guide to Developing Life’s Most Important Skill; and Why Meditate? His books have been translated into over twenty languages.