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Twenty-seven years ago, Matthieu Ricard gave up a promising career as a scientist to study Tibetan Buddhism—not as a detached observer but by immersing himself in its practice under the guidance of its greatest living masters. Years later, this project was born, and Ricard met with his father, Jean-Francois Revel—a French philosopher who became world famous for his challenges to both Communism and Christianity. At an inn, these two profoundly thoughtful men explored questions that have occupied humankind throughout its history.

L'existentialisme considère chacun comme un être unique maître de ses actes et de son destin ; loin d'être le jouet de la fatalité, il est capable de déterminer ses propres valeurs et de construire son existence à travers elle. Fondamentalement pratique, cette philosophie a donc pour but de permettre l'action libre et consciente en mettant en lumière ses conditions existentielles.