Retour

Explorez tous les épisodes du podcast How to Train a Happy Mind

Plongez dans la liste complète des épisodes de How to Train a Happy Mind. Chaque épisode est catalogué accompagné de descriptions détaillées, ce qui facilite la recherche et l'exploration de sujets spécifiques. Suivez tous les épisodes de votre podcast préféré et ne manquez aucun contenu pertinent.

Rows per page:

1–50 of 330

TitreDateDurée
Guided Drawing Meditation with John Simon Jr. #20811 Nov 202500:21:21

In this guided meditation and drawing practice, artist and teacher John Simon Jr. leads us through a series of exercises designed to connect inner awareness with mark-making on paper. Blending Buddhist principles with intuitive art, this session invites you to notice your sensations, thoughts, and environment while allowing your hand to move freely. No art experience is needed, just a willingness to observe, let go, and explore.


Episode 208: Guided Drawing Meditation with John Simon Jr. 

If you’d like to practice with others and bring these ideas into your life, join our weekly meditation community with Scott.

🙏 Help us stay ad-free

📲 Follow us on socials 

Drawing As Meditation with John Simon Jr. #20704 Nov 202500:38:06

On this podcast, we talk a lot about meditation, but it’s far from the only way to connect with the deepest part of yourself and build a stable, joyful mind. There are so many other paths to reach that same inner stillness: spending time in nature, practicing yoga, exercising, making music, writing, or creating art.

For Scott, art was his meditation long before he ever learned to sit in silence. Our friend John Simon Jr. feels this connection just as deeply, so much so that he wrote a whole book about it called Drawing Your Own Path.

Scott and John first met years ago through their shared love of creating art with computer software. Recently, they reunited at John’s home in New York State to talk about how drawing by hand (the old-fashioned way) can be a profound meditation in itself. It’s a beautiful reminder that creativity, presence, and peace can flow through any form of expression.

Episode 207: Drawing As Meditation with John Simon Jr. 

If you’d like to practice with others and bring these ideas into your life, join our weekly meditation community with Scott.

🙏 Help us stay ad-free

📲 Follow us on socials 

Full Awareness of Breath Meditation with Larry Ward [Memorial] 02 Sep 202500:06:27

This rebroadcast episode is in honor of the recent passing of Dr. Larry Ward. May his wisdom live on.

***

Dr. Larry Ward—student of Thich Nhat Hanh and author of America's Racial Karma—leads a short but powerful breath awareness meditation.

Episode 191: 5-Minute Breath Awareness Meditation

If you’d like to practice with others and bring these ideas into your life, join our weekly meditation community with Scott.

🙏 Help us stay ad-free

📲 Follow us on socials 

Mindful Awareness Meditation with Michael Sapiro #14428 Nov 202300:12:45

Psychedelic psychotherapist Dr. Michael Sapiro leads a guided meditation on mindful awareness that connects you with the present moment and your senses.

Episode 144: Mindful Awareness Meditation with Michael Sapiro 

If you’d like to practice with others and bring these ideas into your life, join our weekly meditation community with Scott.

🙏 Help us stay ad-free

📲 Follow us on socials 

Psychedelic Psychotherapy with Michael Sapiro #14321 Nov 202300:50:13

Psychedelics have been in the news a lot lately as a new way to help people work through otherwise intractable issues of grief depression and PTSD. Dr. Michael Sapiro is a psychedelic psychotherapist and researcher who has worked successfully with psychedelics in his practice for years. 

He focuses on helping combat vets and first responders overcome PTSD and other trauma; in his words, transforming worldly warriors into spiritual warriors. Listen to this episode to hear how psychedelic substances, meditation, and Buddhism have helped his patients overcome huge problems and open up to themselves and to the people around them.

Episode 143: Psychedelic Psychotherapy with Michael Sapiro 

If you’d like to practice with others and bring these ideas into your life, join our weekly meditation community with Scott.

🙏 Help us stay ad-free

📲 Follow us on socials 

War Meditation #14214 Nov 202300:31:57

On several occasions I’ve heard people ask the Dalai Lama how to end war, and he’s always answered the same way: begin by trying to resolve the conflicts in your own life. But how do we do that? This meditation goes through some of the Buddhist approaches to understanding the causes of war, both in ourselves and others, and how we might eventually be free of them.

Episode 142. War Meditation

If you’d like to practice with others and bring these ideas into your life, join our weekly meditation community with Scott.

🙏 Help us stay ad-free

📲 Follow us on socials 

Four Foundations of Mindfulness with Dr. David Kittay — A Guided Meditation #77 [rebroadcast]07 Nov 202300:27:24

Take an expansive tour through the four foundations of mindfulness in this sweeping guided meditation with Dr. David Kittay: mindfulness of body, feelings, mind, and mental objects.

Guided Meditation: Four Foundations of Mindfulness with Dr. David Kittay

Listen to our previous interviews with Dr. David Kittay here:
Episode 77: Buddhism and Technology (Part 1)
Episode 78: Buddhism and Technology (Part 2)

If you’d like to practice with others and bring these ideas into your life, join our weekly meditation community with Scott.

🙏 Help us stay ad-free

📲 Follow us on socials 

AI, Compassion, and Enlightenment with Dr. David Kittay #77/78 [rebroadcast]31 Oct 202301:00:35

Professor David Kittay talks with Scott Snibbe about whether we should treat AIs with compassion, whether we are living in a simulation, and whether technologically assisted enlightenment might be possible.

Dr. David Kittay teaches philosophy, religion, and technology at Columbia University, where his students call his courses life changing. Dr. Kittay is also an author, a translator, and a Tibet House board member. His latest publication is the Vajra Rosary Tantra, available from Wisdom Publications.

Episode 77: Buddhism and Technology with Dr. David Kittay
Episode 78: Buddhism and Technology with Dr. David Kittay (Part 2)

If you’d like to practice with others and bring these ideas into your life, join our weekly meditation community with Scott.

🙏 Help us stay ad-free

📲 Follow us on socials 

The Natural Goodness of our Mind: Guided Meditation with Ven. Sangye Khadro (Kathleen McDonald) #36 [rebroadcast]24 Oct 202300:17:26

A guided meditation by Ven. Sangye Khadro (Kathleen McDonald) on the natural goodness of our mind, or Buddha nature. In this meditation we let go of all our negative, disturbing states of mind like anger, anxiety, or fear; and cultivate our positive mental qualities of compassion, wisdom, and courage.

36. Guided Meditation on the Natural Goodness of our Mind — Ven. Sangye Khadro (Kathleen McDonald)

If you’d like to practice with others and bring these ideas into your life, join our weekly meditation community with Scott.

🙏 Help us stay ad-free

📲 Follow us on socials 

Are We Fundamentally Good? with Dr. Jan Willis #14017 Oct 202300:48:17

In this episode, I have one of my heroes back for a third time. Dr. Jan Willis is an extraordinary Buddhist scholar and practitioner and today she's talking with me about the question, Are we fundamentally good? 

Buddhism sometimes seems quite depressing with its focus on suffering and death. But at the core of Buddhism is the idea that in fact, our nature is fundamentally good. Is there any evidence for this? And if so, how do we come to see it? 

Listen to my interview with Dr. Willis to hear the answers to these questions, and whether we might even come to see the good in someone as destructive as Vladimir Putin.

Episode 140: Are We Fundamentally Good? with Dr. Jan Willis

If you’d like to practice with others and bring these ideas into your life, join our weekly meditation community with Scott.

🙏 Help us stay ad-free

📲 Follow us on socials 

Guided Meditation on Pleasure #85 [rebroadcast]10 Oct 202300:23:03

How can we use pleasure in our meditation practice? Buddhism offers specific techniques for meditating on pleasure as a way to deepen our qualities of concentration, fearlessness, loving-kindness, and even our understanding of the ultimate nature of reality.

Episode 85: Guided Meditation on Pleasure
Episode 84: Pleasure and Buddhism: Food, Sex and Netflix on the Path to Enlightenment

If you’d like to practice with others and bring these ideas into your life, join our weekly meditation community with Scott.

🙏 Help us stay ad-free

📲 Follow us on socials 

Pleasure and Buddhism: Food, Sex, and Netflix on the Path to Enlightenment #84 [rebroadcast]03 Oct 202300:29:03

Pleasure is often viewed as a hindrance to the spiritual path, a hotbed of craving and attachment, but what if we told you that pleasure can actually be a positive part of the spiritual path, a portal to love and happiness?

Episode 84: Pleasure and Buddhism: Food, Sex and Netflix on the Path to Enlightenment

If you’d like to practice with others and bring these ideas into your life, join our weekly meditation community with Scott.

🙏 Help us stay ad-free

📲 Follow us on socials 

Guided Meditation on Compassion with Tenzin Chogkyi #13926 Sep 202300:16:13

Tenzin Chogkyi leads a guided meditation to cultivate compassion for yourself and others.

Episode 139: Guided Meditation on Compassion with Tenzin Chogkyi

 


If you’d like to practice with others and bring these ideas into your life, join our weekly meditation community with Scott.

🙏 Help us stay ad-free

📲 Follow us on socials 

Healing America's Racial Karma with Larry Ward [Memorial] 26 Aug 202500:52:53

This rebroadcast episode is in honor of the recent passing of Dr. Larry Ward. May his wisdom live on.

***

Scott talks with Dr. Larry Ward, a student of Thich Nhat Hanh, and author of America's Racial Karma. His book is about how we heal from the trauma of racism, not just as a society, but in our own minds and bodies. In our conversation, Dr. Ward shares a profound truth: racism is a fiction, but one with very real consequences, and it lives not only in the structures of our society, but in our thoughts, our speech, and our nervous systems.

Episode 190: Healing America's Racial Karma with Larry Ward

If you’d like to practice with others and bring these ideas into your life, join our weekly meditation community with Scott.

🙏 Help us stay ad-free

📲 Follow us on socials 

Patriarchy, Gender, and Sexism in Buddhism with Tenzin Chogkyi #13819 Sep 202301:16:19

In this episode Tenzin Chogkyi dives head on into the challenging topics of hierarchy, patriarchy, gender, and sexism in Buddhism. As a practicing Buddhist since the 1970s who spent 20 years as a nun ordained by His Holiness the Dalai Lama himself, she has deep, hard-won insights into these topics. 

Tenzin Chogkyi is one of the most thoughtful, independent thinkers I know, and a person of extraordinary integrity who has dedicated her life to both inner development and advancing fairness and equality in the outer world. I think you'll enjoy listening to our conversation just as much as I enjoyed being a part of it.

Episode 138: Patriarchy, Gender, and Sexism in Buddhism with Tenzin Chogkyi

If you’d like to practice with others and bring these ideas into your life, join our weekly meditation community with Scott.

🙏 Help us stay ad-free

📲 Follow us on socials 

Compassionate AI with Kristian Simsarian #80 [rebroadcast]12 Sep 202300:43:15

Artificial intelligence expert Kristian Simsarian joins host Scott Snibbe to discuss how we can create ethical, unbiased and compassionate AI, whether we should be scared of AI, and the implications of AI on the future of work and spirituality.

Kristian Simsarian has a Ph.D. in human-robot collaboration and worked as a Robotics and AI computer scientist before holding leadership positions at IDEO, the California College of the Arts, Berkeley's Greater Good Science Center and many other organizations. He helped found Humans for AI and helped grow the Center for Humane Technology in its early years. His work has appeared in NYT, Business Week, Huffington Post, along with several best-selling business books on innovation. He's also a board member for A Skeptic's Path to Enlightenment.

Episode 80: Compassionate AI with Kristian Simsarian

If you’d like to practice with others and bring these ideas into your life, join our weekly meditation community with Scott.

🙏 Help us stay ad-free

📲 Follow us on socials 

Loving Our Parents, Loving Our Children #76 [rebroadcast]05 Sep 202300:36:23

Host Scott Snibbe offers touching personal stories and a meditation on how to best love our parents and our children using powerful Buddhist teachings and techniques on understanding, listening, and compassion.

Episode 76: Loving Our Parents, Loving Our Children

If you’d like to practice with others and bring these ideas into your life, join our weekly meditation community with Scott.

🙏 Help us stay ad-free

📲 Follow us on socials 

Guided Meditation on Healing Trauma with sujatha baliga #13729 Aug 202300:26:30

Sujatha baliga leads a guided meditation to work through past traumas in a gentle, loving, and healing manner.

137. Guided Meditation on Healing Trauma with sujatha baliga


If you’d like to practice with others and bring these ideas into your life, join our weekly meditation community with Scott.

🙏 Help us stay ad-free

📲 Follow us on socials 

sujatha baliga on Healing Trauma and Restorative Justice #13622 Aug 202300:54:37

Macarthur Award winner sujatha baliga discusses healing trauma, restorative justice, and the power of love and meditation to build a better world.

sujatha baliga is a restorative justice educator and advocate and a 2019 winner of the MacArthur fellowship. She has served as the director of the restorative justice project at Impact Justice, a co-founder of Crime Survivors for Safety and Justice, and a Soros Justice Fellow at Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth.

Sujatha earned her undergraduate degree at Harvard University and went on to earn her Juris Doctor degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Her life's work in restorative justice was born of the personal advice she received when she was 24 years old from His Holiness the Dalai Lama on forgiving seemingly unforgivable acts.

136. sujatha baliga on Healing Trauma and Restorative Justice

If you’d like to practice with others and bring these ideas into your life, join our weekly meditation community with Scott.

🙏 Help us stay ad-free

📲 Follow us on socials 

Meditation on the Emptiness of Money [rebroadcast] #7115 Aug 202300:22:14

A 20-minute guided analytical meditation on how money exists through parts, causes, and the mind in our interdependent reality, seen through the Buddhist lens of emptiness.

Episode 71. Guided Meditation: How Money Exists


Previous Episode: Bitcoin and Buddhism

If you’d like to practice with others and bring these ideas into your life, join our weekly meditation community with Scott.

🙏 Help us stay ad-free

📲 Follow us on socials 

Bitcoin and Buddhism #70 [rebroadcast]08 Aug 202300:42:18

What can Buddhism teach us about how Bitcoin works and why it's so valuable? What can Bitcoin teach us about emptiness, the interdependent nature of reality?

Episode 70. Bitcoin and Buddhism

If you’d like to practice with others and bring these ideas into your life, join our weekly meditation community with Scott.

🙏 Help us stay ad-free

📲 Follow us on socials 

Dan Harris Loving-Kindness Guided Meditation #13501 Aug 202300:12:15

Dan Harris, host of the hit podcast Ten Percent Happier, leads a loving-kindness meditation for skeptics. Recent research has shown that this practice positively impacts mental and physical health.

Episode 135: Dan Harris Loving-Kindness Guided Meditation

If you’d like to practice with others and bring these ideas into your life, join our weekly meditation community with Scott.

🙏 Help us stay ad-free

📲 Follow us on socials 

Dan Harris: Love, Skepticism, and the "Cheesy Upward Spiral" #13425 Jul 202300:41:22

Dan Harris, former ABC News anchor and host of the hit podcast Ten Percent Happier, talks with Scott Snibbe about love, skepticism, Buddhism, and the "cheesy upward spiral."

Episode 134: Dan Harris: Love, Skepticism, and the "Cheesy Upward Spiral"

If you’d like to practice with others and bring these ideas into your life, join our weekly meditation community with Scott.

🙏 Help us stay ad-free

📲 Follow us on socials 

Mindfulness of the Body - A 10 Minute Guided Meditation18 Jul 202300:09:59

A 10 minute guided meditation on the body, relaxing into the open connection between body and mind through mindful awareness.

Episode 63. 10 Minute Body Meditation

If you’d like to practice with others and bring these ideas into your life, join our weekly meditation community with Scott.

🙏 Help us stay ad-free

📲 Follow us on socials 

What Happens When You Die? #58 [rebroadcast]19 Aug 202500:23:27

What happens when you die? No one knows for sure. But the Tibetan Buddhist system describes a precise series of steps that our consciousness may experience as we die, which we can explore in a meditation to probe the boundary of life and death with curiosity and wonder.

Episode 58: What Happens When You Die?

If you’d like to practice with others and bring these ideas into your life, join our weekly meditation community with Scott.

🙏 Help us stay ad-free

📲 Follow us on socials 

Why Mindfulness? #60 [rebroadcast]11 Jul 202300:19:57

Could the true cause of happiness be simply thinking about whatever we are doing at the moment, what scientists and meditators call mindfulness?

Episode 60. Why Mindfulness?

If you’d like to practice with others and bring these ideas into your life, join our weekly meditation community with Scott.

🙏 Help us stay ad-free

📲 Follow us on socials 

Kim Stanley Robinson on Solving the Climate Crisis, Buddhism, and the Power of Science Fiction #102 [rebroadcast]04 Jul 202300:50:09

Kim Stanley Robinson is one of the greatest living science fiction writers, and one of the few people ever to have developed a credible solution to the climate crisis, which he describes in his latest novel, The Ministry for the Future

In this interview, we talk about climate change solutions, Buddhism in his life and work, sci-fi and cli-fi (climate fiction), colonizing Mars, the outdoors as meditation, and how to stay optimistic.

Episode 102. Kim Stanley Robinson on Solving the Climate Crisis, Buddhism, and the Power of Science Fiction

If you’d like to practice with others and bring these ideas into your life, join our weekly meditation community with Scott.

🙏 Help us stay ad-free

📲 Follow us on socials 

From What If to What Next — Rob Hopkins on Climate Optimism #103 [rebroadcast]27 Jun 202300:49:41

Rob Hopkins, climate activist, co-founder of the Transition Network and host of the podcast series From What If to What Next talks about an engaged, passionate form of Buddhism that actively works for positive change in our communities and in the world.

Episode 103. From What If to What Next — Rob Hopkins' Climate Optimism

If you’d like to practice with others and bring these ideas into your life, join our weekly meditation community with Scott.

🙏 Help us stay ad-free

📲 Follow us on socials 

What Happens When You Die? #58 [rebroadcast]20 Jun 202300:22:20

What happens when you die? No one knows for sure. But the Tibetan Buddhist system describes a precise series of steps that our consciousness may experience as we die, which we can explore in a meditation to probe the boundary of life and death with curiosity and wonder.

Episode 58: What Happens When You Die?

If you’d like to practice with others and bring these ideas into your life, join our weekly meditation community with Scott.

🙏 Help us stay ad-free

📲 Follow us on socials 

Where Did I Come From? #57 [rebroadcast]13 Jun 202300:32:46

The idea of past lives may not make sense, and isn’t scientifically verifiable. But still, the question of what we might have been before our conception is one worth asking. Where did I come from?

Episode 57: Where Did I Come From?

If you’d like to practice with others and bring these ideas into your life, join our weekly meditation community with Scott.

🙏 Help us stay ad-free

📲 Follow us on socials 

Birth, Death, and Infinity #56 [rebroadcast]06 Jun 202300:29:35

I want to tell you a story about birth and death and infinity. We’re all born and we’re all going to die, but I don’t know how many of you have ever felt a connection to infinity. I want to tell you about the time in my life when I felt this connection to infinity every day. And I also want to tell you about how I lost it, and whether it’s possible to get it back again.

Episode 56: Birth, Death, and Infinity

If you’d like to practice with others and bring these ideas into your life, join our weekly meditation community with Scott.

🙏 Help us stay ad-free

📲 Follow us on socials 

Meditation on Cultivating Our Inner Awareness with Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo #93 [rebroadcast]30 May 202300:09:34

Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo is one of the very first Westerners to become ordained into the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. She is best known for having lived in a remote cave in the Himalayas for 12 years. In this 10-minute  meditation, she offers us the invitation to cultivate moment-to-moment inner awareness - the essence of meditation practice.

Episode 93: Cultivating Our Inner Awareness with Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo - 10 Minute Meditation

If you’d like to practice with others and bring these ideas into your life, join our weekly meditation community with Scott.

🙏 Help us stay ad-free

📲 Follow us on socials 

Women, Buddhism, and Equality with Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo #92 [rebroadcast]23 May 202300:49:33

Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo is one of the world’s most revered Buddhist teachers and one of the very first Westerners to become ordained into the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. She is best known for having lived in a remote cave in the Himalayas for 12 years. She spoke with us about the role of women in Buddhism from a historical and contemporary lens, the nature of mind and simple, powerful ways to meditate in the modern world.

Episode 92: Wisdom and the Path for Women with Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo

Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo is a fully ordained tibetan buddhist nun in the Drukpa Lineage of the Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism. She is an author, teacher and founder of the Dongyu Gatsal Ling Nunnery in Himachal Pradesh, India. She is best known for being one of the very few Western yoginis trained in the East, having spent twelve years living in a remote cave in the Himalayas, three of those years in strict meditation retreat and for having made a vow to attain Enlightenment in the female form - no matter how many lifetimes it takes.

If you’d like to practice with others and bring these ideas into your life, join our weekly meditation community with Scott.

🙏 Help us stay ad-free

📲 Follow us on socials 

10 Minute Guided Meditation on Loving-kindness16 May 202300:09:59

A 10-Minute guided meditation on love shows us how to expand our love for our partner and family to a loving-kindness, or metta, that embraces all beings.

10 Minute Meditation on Love (Loving-kindness)

If you’d like to practice with others and bring these ideas into your life, join our weekly meditation community with Scott.

🙏 Help us stay ad-free

📲 Follow us on socials 

I Want to Know What Love Is #52 [rebroadcast]09 May 202300:28:42

If you want to know what love is, search beyond eighties songs to the wisdom of Buddhist loving-kindness that expands our love to all beings while also deepening our connection to our partner and family. This special  episode on love asks great Buddhist teachers the question of what love is, including Dr. Jan Willis, Ven. Kathleen McDonald, Dr. Rick Hanson, Geshe Tenzin Namdak, and Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche.

Episode 52: I Want to Know What Love Is

If you’d like to practice with others and bring these ideas into your life, join our weekly meditation community with Scott.

🙏 Help us stay ad-free

📲 Follow us on socials 

Where Did I Come From? #57 [rebroadcast]12 Aug 202500:32:36

The idea of past lives may not make sense, and isn’t scientifically verifiable. But still, the question of what we might have been before our conception is one worth asking. Where did I come from?

Episode 57: Where Did I Come From?

If you’d like to practice with others and bring these ideas into your life, join our weekly meditation community with Scott.

🙏 Help us stay ad-free

📲 Follow us on socials 

Guided Meditation: Compassion through Looking Inside #13302 May 202300:17:09

Buddhist teacher and author Wendy Haylett discusses the practice of Naikan and leads an analytical meditation that uses compassion to reflect on our more difficult relationships without judgement.

Episode 133: Guided Meditation: Compassion through Looking Inside


If you’d like to practice with others and bring these ideas into your life, join our weekly meditation community with Scott.

🙏 Help us stay ad-free

📲 Follow us on socials 

Everyday Buddhism: Compassion, Trauma, and Self-Acceptance with Wendy Haylett #13225 Apr 202300:51:53

Wendy Shinyo Haylett is an author, Buddhist teacher, and lay minister with the Bright Dawn Center of Oneness Buddhism. She's the host of the popular Everyday Buddhism podcast where she kindly had me on as a guest last year. Wendy has more than 30 years of experience as a Buddhist practitioner and coach helping people live their personal and professional lives with more mindfulness and resilience. In our conversation, she talks about how Buddhism can help us in our everyday life, from workplace conflicts and intimate relationships to overcoming trauma.

Episode 132: Everyday Buddhism: Compassion, Trauma, and Self-Acceptance with Wendy Haylett

If you’d like to practice with others and bring these ideas into your life, join our weekly meditation community with Scott.

🙏 Help us stay ad-free

📲 Follow us on socials 

Meditation on Gratitude, Dedication, and Determination #45 [rebroadcast]18 Apr 202300:24:16

From the Buddhist, as well as the psychological and scientific perspectives, gratitude and dedication aren’t just polite bookends. The process of feeling gratitude and resolve creates the mental and neurological causes to actually become better people and to better serve the world.

Episode 45: Meditation on Gratitude, Dedication, and Determination

If you’d like to practice with others and bring these ideas into your life, join our weekly meditation community with Scott.

🙏 Help us stay ad-free

📲 Follow us on socials 

Guided Meditation on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment #44 [rebroadcast]11 Apr 202300:49:11

We’ve spent the better part of a year going step-by-step through a modern secular version of the major topics from Tibetan Buddhism’s Stages of the Path, what we call A Skeptic’s Path to Enlightenment. In Tibetan this sequence is called the lamrim. It’s a series of meditations that progressively move our mind to better understand itself, bring out our best qualities, and create the causes for a happy meaningful life. 

People who practice the Stages of the Path in the Tibetan style normally review the whole path every day as part of a meditation practice to gradually make its steps second nature. This episode offers a compact summation of the stages of the path as a complete meditation that you can practice every day.

Episode 44. Secular Guided Meditation on the Tibetan Buddhist Stages of the Path to Enlightenment (Lamrim)

If you’d like to practice with others and bring these ideas into your life, join our weekly meditation community with Scott.

🙏 Help us stay ad-free

📲 Follow us on socials 

Guided Meditation on Consciousness #13104 Apr 202300:17:07

This guided meditation explores consciousness through a Tibetan Buddhist lens. What does it mean to be aware? Is your mind limited to your physical body? And who is it that observes your thoughts?

Episode 131: Guided Meditation on Consciousness


If you’d like to practice with others and bring these ideas into your life, join our weekly meditation community with Scott.

🙏 Help us stay ad-free

📲 Follow us on socials 

Free Will, Consciousness, & Reality with Dr. Anil Seth #13028 Mar 202301:07:22

Dr. Anil Seth has written an extraordinary book called Being You — A New Science of Consciousness. I had a chance to talk to him recently in an event sponsored by Science & Wisdom Live. Dr. Seth is one of the world's foremost researchers on consciousness, and in our interview he touches on defining consciousness from a scientific perspective, whether we have free will, and the notion of reality as a controlled hallucination. He also talks about an art installation called the Dreamachine that he helped create, which can induce profound direct experiences of consciousness.

Episode 130: Free Will, Consciousness, & Reality with Dr. Anil Seth

If you’d like to practice with others and bring these ideas into your life, join our weekly meditation community with Scott.

🙏 Help us stay ad-free

📲 Follow us on socials 

The Interdependent Self - Guided Meditation #4321 Mar 202300:43:08

Who am I? From the Buddhist perspective, there’s a systematic way of asking this question of who you are in the form of a meditation on the ultimate nature of the self, or "emptiness." This meditation is said to be the strongest antidote to our disturbing states of mind and a cause for greater self-awareness, happiness, and connection with others.

Episode 43: Guided Meditation — The Interdependent Self

If you’d like to practice with others and bring these ideas into your life, join our weekly meditation community with Scott.

🙏 Help us stay ad-free

📲 Follow us on socials 

Who Am I? Happiness, Selfishness, and Self-ness #42 [rebroadcast]14 Mar 202300:36:24

Are you your body? Are you your mind? Are you a collection of thoughts, memories, and neural connections that could be uploaded into a computer to live forever? Or are you an old-fashioned soul? This episode probes the nature of the self using the Buddhist notion of emptiness, searching for the partless, independent, unchanging "I" that ordinarily appears to us, and finding a self that's far richer and interconnected with reality and with others.

Episode 42: Who Am I?

If you’d like to practice with others and bring these ideas into your life, join our weekly meditation community with Scott.

🙏 Help us stay ad-free

📲 Follow us on socials 

Compassion with Ven. Sangye Khadro and Scott Snibbe #12907 Mar 202300:51:13

Last year I had the privilege to participate in a dialogue on compassion with my teacher, Venerable Sangye Khadro who is also well known by her Western name Venerable Kathleen McDonald. Venerable Sangye Khadro is the author of How to Meditate and Awakening the Kind Heart. She's a very active Buddhist teacher and a fully ordained nun, which is the highest level of ordination for a Buddhist monastic.

It was wonderful to hear her share wisdom on this topic, touching on many practical ways to deal with everyday pain and conflict in our lives using this universal antidote of compassion. This talk was organized by the Foundation for Developing Compassion and Wisdom, which shares similar goals to A Skeptic's Path to Enlightenment in offering non-religious ways for anyone to benefit from Buddhist wisdom.

Make sure to stay tuned until the end of the episode for a short but moving meditation on compassion led by Venerable Sangye Khadro.

Episode 129: Compassion with Ven. Sangye Khadro and Scott Snibbe

If you’d like to practice with others and bring these ideas into your life, join our weekly meditation community with Scott.

🙏 Help us stay ad-free

📲 Follow us on socials 

Kim Stanley Robinson and Robert Thurman: Climate, Politics, and the Dalai Lama #12828 Feb 202300:33:25

This is a very special episode in which I had the chance to introduce two of my heroes: Buddhist scholar Robert Thurman and science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson. They shared a lively conversation together that you now have the chance to eavesdrop on (with their permission).

In their dialogue, they talk about when violence is legitimate in situations like the Tibetan or Ukrainian invasions, their personal relationships to the Dalai Lama, and how we might make Kim Stanley Robinson's fictional climate solutions from his latest novel The Ministry for the Future start working in real life.

In this intimate conversation between two people who have wanted to meet each other for a long time, Robert Thurman and Kim Stanley Robinson also speak frankly about their politics and their ideas, both for saving the planet and for simple mental health in a world that's filled with climate and social emergencies. As Kim Stanley Robinson put it, "spiritual and political advice."

I hope you enjoy their conversation.

Episode 128: Kim Stanley Robinson and Robert Thurman: Climate, Politics, and the Dalai Lama

If you’d like to practice with others and bring these ideas into your life, join our weekly meditation community with Scott.

🙏 Help us stay ad-free

📲 Follow us on socials 

AI and Enlightenment with Dr. David Kittay #20105 Aug 202500:49:59

Dr. David Kittay stands out as one of the most expansive, intelligent, creative, and warmhearted thinkers of our time. His course at Columbia University, Technology, Religion, Future, is often described as “life-changing” for its exploration of how technology intersects with humanity’s deepest questions. In an earlier conversation with Scott, before the AI boom, he offered insights that felt ahead of their time—making his return now all the more vital as we face a profound question: Can artificial intelligence lead to enlightenment, or are we speeding toward a super-intelligent future that may no longer include us?

This conversation reaches into that vast horizon while also returning to earth, highlighting how billions suffering today might find happiness through far simpler, more accessible means than the high-powered machines now simulating our homework, love letters, and friendships.

Episode 201: AI and Enlightenment with Dr. David Kittay

If you’d like to practice with others and bring these ideas into your life, join our weekly meditation community with Scott.

🙏 Help us stay ad-free

📲 Follow us on socials 

The Interdependent Nature of Reality #39 [rebroadcast]21 Feb 202300:26:34

The Buddhist understanding of how things exist, called emptiness, breaks objects down into parts, causes, and a mind that bundles them into the illusion of a solid, singular, unchanging entity. When we apply this analysis to an iPhone, we see that it is made up of almost all the elements in the periodic table, and is connected to thousands of hours of hard labor and the entire history of our civilization, planet, and universe.

Episode 39. The Interdependent Nature of Reality

If you’d like to practice with others and bring these ideas into your life, join our weekly meditation community with Scott.

🙏 Help us stay ad-free

📲 Follow us on socials 

Guided Meditation: Exploring the Texture of the Mind #12714 Feb 202300:25:12

Buddhist teacher Emily Hsu leads an analytical meditation that explores the inner landscape—texture—of the mind and the differences between constructive and unconstructive mental states.

Episode 127: Guided Meditation: Exploring the Texture of the Mind 

If you’d like to practice with others and bring these ideas into your life, join our weekly meditation community with Scott.

🙏 Help us stay ad-free

📲 Follow us on socials 

The Buddhist Understanding of the Mind with Emily Hsu #12607 Feb 202300:53:38

I've known Emily Hsu since she first started teaching Buddhist philosophy and meditation at the Tse Chen Ling Center for Tibetan Buddhism 15 years ago in San Francisco. She's a lucid, humble, and kind teacher who speaks from both deep education and rich personal experience.

Emily Hsu completed the seven year FPMT Masters Program at Institute Lama Tzong Khapa in Italy in 2004—a condensed version of the Tibetan Buddhist Geshe studies curriculum—which qualifies her to teach subjects normally taught only by Tibetan Buddhist Lamas. She served as the resident teacher at California's Ocean of Compassion Buddhist Center and has spent long stretches of time in solitary retreat deepening her practice.

Emily and I got together in person recently to talk about the Buddhist view of the mind, navigating disturbing emotions, and how to understand reality.

Episode 126: The Buddhist Understanding of the Mind with Emily Hsu


If you’d like to practice with others and bring these ideas into your life, join our weekly meditation community with Scott.

🙏 Help us stay ad-free

📲 Follow us on socials 

© My Podcast Data