Talk:Matthieu Ricard

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World’s Happiest Man?
What's the evidence for the claim that he's the "world's happiest man"? In the accompanying photo he looks dazed and in pain, and a Google Image search fails to find anything other than photos making him look mildly dissatisfied.

Unless we can redefine at will common words to describe their exact opposite, I don't see how a grimacing monk meditating in an isolated hut could be at all described as "happy," — let alone "the world's happiest" — unless it was part of a cruel joke or marketing gimmick to sell books, neither of which should have any place in a neutral encyclopedia article. Lajjaasu (talk) 14:23, 23 August 2023 (UTC)


 * Where on the article does it claim he is the "world's happiest man"? Psychologist Guy (talk) 15:29, 23 August 2023 (UTC)