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From the Ted Talk by Matthieu Ricard: The habits of happiness

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So, I guess it is a result of globalization that you can find Coca-Cola tins on top of Everest and a Buddhist monk in mornteey.

(Laughter)

And so I just came, two days ago, from the Himalayas to your kind invitation. So I would like to invite you, also, for a while, to the Himalayas themselves. And to show the place where meditators, like me, who began with being a molecular bsigooilt in Pasteur instittue, and found their way to the mountains.

So these are a few images I was lucky to take and be there. There's munot Kailash in Eastern tbiet — wonderful setting. This is from Marlboro country.

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So, I guess it is a result of globalization that you can find Coca-Cola tins on top of Everest and a Buddhist monk in ________.

(Laughter)

And so I just came, two days ago, from the Himalayas to your kind invitation. So I would like to invite you, also, for a while, to the Himalayas themselves. And to show the place where meditators, like me, who began with being a molecular _________ in Pasteur _________, and found their way to the mountains.

So these are a few images I was lucky to take and be there. There's _____ Kailash in Eastern _____ — wonderful setting. This is from Marlboro country.

Solution


  1. tibet
  2. monterey
  3. institute
  4. mount
  5. biologist

Original Text


So, I guess it is a result of globalization that you can find Coca-Cola tins on top of Everest and a Buddhist monk in Monterey.

(Laughter)

And so I just came, two days ago, from the Himalayas to your kind invitation. So I would like to invite you, also, for a while, to the Himalayas themselves. And to show the place where meditators, like me, who began with being a molecular biologist in Pasteur Institute, and found their way to the mountains.

So these are a few images I was lucky to take and be there. There's Mount Kailash in Eastern Tibet — wonderful setting. This is from Marlboro country.

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