Buddhist Monk Rated Happiest Man In The World

Yep, he looks pretty happy to me.

It's one thing to be happy and it's another one entirely to be designated the "happiest man in the world," but it appears that the University of Wisconsin has done the research, developed a means of measuring it and given the title to Tibetan Buddhist monk and molecular geneticist Matthieu Ricard.

Ricard is working to show how meditation can alter the brain and improve one's outlook on life.

"It's a wonderful area of research because it shows that meditation is not just blissing out under a mango tree but it completely changes your brain and therefore changes what you are."

Here's a link to the NYDaily News article describing the U of W experiment.