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How to Train a Happy MindDrawing As Meditation with John Simon Jr. #207On 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 Pa...
2025-11-0438 minHow to Train a Happy MindMeditation for Angry Parents #204This episode turns to one of the most universal human struggles: anger. Scott Snibbe explores how Buddhist psychology defines anger as a delusion: an exaggeration of the negative that blinds us to the good and fuels the wish to harm. Drawing on timeless wisdom, this meditation offers parents (and anyone else who wrestles with anger) practical antidotes rooted in curiosity and compassion.Episode 204: Meditation for Angry ParentsSupport the show
2025-09-3026 minHow to Train a Happy MindLoving Our Parents, Loving Our Children #76 [rebroadcast]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 ChildrenSupport the show
2025-09-2336 minHow to Train a Happy MindHealing America's Racial Karma with Larry Ward [Memorial]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...
2025-08-2652 minHow to Train a Happy MindAI and Enlightenment with Dr. David Kittay #201Dr. 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 con...
2025-08-0549 minHow to Train a Happy MindIs Enlightenment Possible? #200We can't believe this is our 200th episode! For this special occasion, we wanted to share a talk and meditation Scott Snibbe offered in our Train a Happy Mind community a couple of weeks ago called “Is enlightenment possible?” Over the years, Scott's ideas of enlightenment have evolved as he's interviewed some of the world's foremost teachers and scholars of Buddhism like Dr. Jan Willis, Dr. Robert Thurman, Thupten Jinpa, and Tenzin Palmo. This episode is a reflection of these new understandings and an exploration of other tasty questions like...Is enlightenment possible for anyone?...
2025-07-2948 minHow to Train a Happy MindThe Warm Heart of Awareness: A Meditation with Ven. René Feusi #199Today we’re sharing a guided meditation from the wonderful Venerable René Feusi (Scott Snibbe's long-time teacher). Settle in, find a comfortable seat, and let René’s clear, grounded guidance open the warm heart of awareness within you.Episode #199: The Warm Heart of Awareness: A Meditation with Ven. René FeusiSupport the show
2025-07-2212 minHow to Train a Happy MindConcentration Makes Us Happy! with Ven. René Feusi #198It turns out that many of the greatest living Buddhist teachers are also some of the hardest to receive teachings from. Lacking ego, they have no need to promote themselves. This is the case with Scott's closest teacher, Venerable René Feusi. Out of a wish to maintain his solitude and focus on long-term students—and probably mostly out of humility—Venerable René has always declined Scott's invitations to appear on this podcast. But last year he gave a public talk at Tse Chen Ling Center in San Francisco on the benefits of concentrated awareness. We asked him if we c...
2025-07-1548 minHow to Train a Happy Mind20 Minute Path to a Happy Mind Guided Meditation #197This 20 minute guided meditation comes from the sequence Scott shares in the How to Train a Happy Mind podcast and book. The stages are based on the Tibetan Buddhist lamrim, which was created more than a thousand years ago by the Indian Master Atisha Dipankar. Over the past decade, Scott has adapted it to be a non-religious way to transform the mind from states of frustration, craving, and loneliness to states of satisfaction, connection, and meaning. Scott leads live meditations like this every Sunday in our Train a Happy Mind community, which you can join fo...
2025-07-0823 minHow to Train a Happy MindBeyond Bombs: A Meditation on Ending War and Cultivating Peace #195Instead of the episode we had planned to share today, a meditation from Tenzin Chogkyi as part of her beautiful conversation on joy, we're postponing that release by a week. In its place, we're sharing a meditation Scott Snibbe led just a couple of days ago with our Train a Happy Mind community. This meditation was recorded the day after the United States launched a new bombing campaign in Iran. In response, Scott reflects on the roots of violence, both in our world and in our minds, and to offer a path toward peace influenced by Tibetan B...
2025-06-2452 minHow to Train a Happy Mind10-Minute Path to a Happy Mind Guided Meditation #193Scott Snibbe leads a 10-minute guided meditation that is based on the sequence he shares in the How to Train a Happy Mind podcast and book. Many Tibetan Buddhists do this meditation every day. If you don't have much time or want to start small, this is a good place to begin. It touches on the precious life, impermanence, cause and effect, suffering, renunciation, love, compassion, and interdependence.Episode 193: 10-Minute Path to a Happy Mind Guided MeditationSupport the show
2025-06-1011 minHow to Train a Happy MindThe Complete Path to a Happy Mind #192"I'll tell you something. I've learned it's hard work to be happy." Brian WilsonIn this special retreat episode, Scott Snibbe guides us through the full path to a happy mind—from appreciating the simple miracle of being alive to confronting our deepest mental habits and reconnecting with our capacity for kindness, meaning, and change.It’s not a quick fix or a life hack. It’s the whole path. And it might just shift how you see the world.Episode 192: The Complete Path to a Happy MindSuppor...
2025-06-0345 minHow to Train a Happy MindHealing America's Racial Karma—Larry Ward #190Scott 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 WardSupport the show
2025-05-2052 minHow to Train a Happy MindBeyond Us vs Them: Transforming Society Through Fierce Vulnerability with Kazu Haga #186This week, Scott is joined by transformative activist and restorative justice advocate Kazu Haga to discuss his new book, Fierce Vulnerability, which rethinks nonviolence as a path to healing and connection. In a world fueled by division, Kazu challenges the idea of winning against an enemy and asks: What if resistance wasn’t about force, but about vulnerability? If you’ve ever questioned whether conflict itself is keeping us stuck, this conversation is for you.Episode 186: Beyond Us vs Them: Transforming Society Through Fierce Vulnerability with Kazu Haga Support the show
2025-03-2556 minHow to Train a Happy MindBitcoin and Buddhism #70 [rebroadcast]What can Buddhism teach us about how Bitcoin works & why it’s so valuable? What can Bitcoin teach us about emptiness, the interdependent nature of reality? Find out in this episode with Scott Snibbe!Episode 70: Bitcoin and BuddhismSupport the show
2025-02-1842 min
Everyday Buddhism: Making Everyday BetterBuddhist Response to Election Angst with Scott Snibbe: Find Some Peace In a Tense WorldIn this episode I invited Scott Snibbe to join me for a conversation about Buddhist responses to the anxiety, apprehension, insecurity, fear, dread, anger … and on and on … that some people are feeling now. Scott Snibbe is a twenty-five-year student of Tibetan Buddhism whose teachers include Lama Zopa Rinpoche and His Holiness the Dalai Lama. He is the author and host of the How to Train a Happy Mind book and podcast. Scott leads meditation classes and retreats worldwide in a style that will become evident in our upcoming conversation. His light-hearted approach is infused with...
2024-11-261h 23How to Train a Happy MindHow to Live a Happy Life: NPR's Laura Sydell Talks with Scott Snibbe #176NPR's Laura Sydell talks with Scott Snibbe about his book, How to Train a Happy Mind, at The Battery in San Francisco. They discuss interdependence (or emptiness) at length and also how great movies and comedians, like Jerry Seinfeld, can capture Buddhism's insights into how to live happy lives. Episode 176: NPR's Laura Sydell Talks with Scott SnibbeSupport the show
2024-11-2653 minHow to Train a Happy MindCompassion for our Country: Meditations for Healing After a Divisive Election #175The recent U.S. election has left our country more divided than ever, with Donald Trump elected as the next president. Whether this news fills you with hope or despair, today's episode offers a fresh perspective on how we can respond with curiosity, compassion, and a commitment to finding common ground even when it feels impossible.Scott shares his personal reflections on nonviolence, the deeper motivations that drive us all, and how you can still recognize the fundamental goodness in everyone, even those you vehemently disagree with. Through meditation and thoughtful exploration, you'll learn to soften your...
2024-11-1253 minHow to Train a Happy MindDoes Nonviolent Protest Work? Kazu Haga #173Kazu Haga's book, Healing Resistance, explains that nonviolence isn't just refraining from harm, but a sophisticated six-step strategy that begins with research and dialogue and ends, most importantly, with reconciliation. He explains that the purpose of nonviolence is not just to create a change we desire in the world, but to heal relationships and enrich our sense of connectedness, respect, and interdependence with all beings. Kazu graciously took time off from raising his five-month-old child to speak about why nonviolence works and how to counter the common objections to nonviolence. Scott and Kazu also talk about healing f...
2024-10-2955 min
How to Train a Happy MindDiary of a Yogini with Paula Chichester #171The ancient word yogi, or yogini in its female form, refers to someone who's dedicated their life to inner transformation through meditation. They often spend years or even decades in solitary retreat. Scott's teacher and friend Paula Chichester is one of the vanishingly few modern people who has chosen to live such a life of isolation and inner adventure. In this conversation, Paula talks about balancing the inner development fostered by meditation with the outer transformation of social action. She talks about the joys and challenges of long-term retreat and the practicalities of how to pay for i...
2024-09-2446 minHow to Train a Happy MindStories We Tell Ourselves—Laurie Anderson & Scott Snibbe at Tibet House #170Scott speaks with artist and musician Laurie Anderson at New York's Tibet House about Scott's new book, How to Train a Happy Mind. They discuss how the tools of analytical meditation have helped them cultivate lives of meaning and satisfaction, and foster transformation and even joy through tragedy.For those of you unfamiliar with her work, Laurie Anderson is one of our greatest living artists. Her work includes spoken word and performance, top charting albums, music videos, digital art, film, virtual reality, and the invention of ingenious instruments like the tape bow violin and the talking stick...
2024-09-1757 minHow to Train a Happy MindDr. Cornel West: Truth, Justice, and Love #169Dr. Cornel West combines a formidable intellect with an enormous heart and an unceasing drive for social justice that transcends his multiple identities as an academic, author, philosopher, theologian, political activist, social critic, and public intellectual. Many of you even know him as an actor for his brief, but memorable appearances, in The Matrix films. Of course, Dr. West is also an independent candidate in this year's U.S. Presidential Election. Scott spoke with Dr. West a couple of weeks ago about compassionate leadership, nonviolence, social and economic justice, and the balance between inner and outer transformation t...
2024-08-2743 minHow to Train a Happy MindDJ Spooky + Snibbe at the Rubin Museum #168A couple of months ago, Scott Snibbe was in New York City for a conversation with Paul Miller at The Rubin Museum for the release of his recent book, How to Train a Happy Mind. Paul is an old friend who'd be famous enough for his incredible pioneering work with collage hip hop music as DJ Spooky, but he has so many other identities as an author, public intellectual, and artist.Episode 168: DJ Spooky + Snibbe at the Rubin MuseumSupport the show
2024-08-2049 min
The Ampersand Manifesto: Multi-Passionate People Dive DeepTraining a Happy Mind with Scott Snibbe, New Media Artist and Meditation TeacherJessica speaks with Scott Snibbe, new media artist, entrepreneur & meditation teacher. He is the author of the book How to Train a Happy Mind, and host of the Skeptic’s Path to Enlightenment podcast. Scott's interactive art and augmented reality installations have been incorporated into concert tours, museums, and airports; and he has collaborated with musicians and filmmakers including Björk, Philip Glass, Beck, and James Cameron. His work can be found in the collections of New York's MoMA, the Whitney Museum of American Art, and other institutions.
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2024-08-1437 minHow to Train a Happy MindFreeing Ourselves from Suffering: Anger, Craving, Pride, and War #167For this week's episode, we're sharing a recent meditation Scott Snibbe led for our new Train a Happy Mind community on letting go of suffering. Every Sunday morning, he leads a meditation on one of the topics from How to Train a Happy Mind. Sometimes he also expands into other topics or leads practices relating to current events. This topic's chapter is called Am I the Most Important Person in the Universe?In this talk and its meditation, Scott touches on how our own delusions of anger and attachment connect to the bigger problems in the world...
2024-08-1353 min
Mindrolling with Raghu MarkusEp. 552 – How to Train a Happy Mind with Scott SnibbeAuthor and artist Scott Snibbe visits Mindrolling to teach listeners how to train the mind for long-lasting happiness.Get your copy of Scott’s book, How to Train a Happy Mind: A Skeptic’s Path to Enlightenment, HERE.This week on Mindrolling, Scott and Raghu discuss: How being in tune with reality leads to happinessScott’s childhood and sensing the feeling of infinitySelfishness/self-centeredness as an antagonist to joyHappiness through cherishing othersAnalytical meditation and filling your mindRemembering how precious every day isStabilizing the mind through meditation to be less reactiveConnecting with ourselves first thing in the mo...
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Everyday Buddhism: Making Everyday BetterHow to Train a Happy Mind with Scott Snibbe: Evolve Your Mind to Focus on Your Best QualitiesIn this episode I talk with Scott Snibbe, the creator and host of the popular podcast, A Skeptic's Path to Enlightenment and the author of the new book, How To Train a Happy Mind, with foreword by His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Scott is a twenty-five-year student of Tibetan Buddhism whose teachers include Lama Zopa Rinpoche and His Holiness the Dalai Lama. He leads meditation classes and retreats worldwide in a style that will become evident in our upcoming conversation. His light-hearted approach is infused with humor, science, and the realities of the modern world. ...
2024-07-101h 28How to Train a Happy MindTenzin Chogkyi & Scott Snibbe San Francisco Book Launch for How to Train a Happy Mind #164Tenzin Chogkyi talks to Scott Snibbe about his new book, How to Train a Happy Mind, at the Medicine for Nightmares bookstore in San Francisco.Episode 164: Tenzin Chogkyi & Scott Snibbe Medicine for Nightmares SF How to Train a Happy MindSupport the show
2024-07-0949 min
Science & Wisdom LIVEExploring Buddhist Philosophy - Q&A with Scott SnibbeJoin Scott Snibbe in a thought-provoking Q&A session as he explores Buddhist philosophy, Consciousness & AI. In this conversation, Scott takes us on both an intellectual and experiential journey, exploring the intersections between mindfulness, technology, and consciousness. Through the lens of Buddhist philosophy, Scott addresses questions on the nature of consciousness in relation to software and AI, the physical and non-physical aspects of the mind, and the transformative power of meditation and mindfulness in our digital age.Watch the full talk here Learn more about Scott SnibbeScience & Wisdom LIVE
2024-06-3018 minHow to Train a Happy MindRobert Thurman & Scott Snibbe at Tibet House: How to Train a Happy Mind #161In New York City, a couple months ago, I had the honor of sharing a public conversation with one of my Buddhist heroes, the renowned author and scholar Robert Thurman. In this episode's conversation, we share an edited recording from that evening, talking about everything from overcoming self-hatred, enjoying pleasure without attachment, getting ghosted by the Dalai Lama, and how one might come to have compassion for someone as dangerous and deadly as Vladimir Putin.Episode 161: Robert Thurman & Scott Snibbe at Tibet House: How to Train a Happy MindSupport the show
2024-06-0440 minHow to Train a Happy Mindsujatha baliga & Scott Snibbe in conversation: How to Train a Happy Mind #159Restorative justice practitioner sujatha baliga talks to Scott Snibbe about his new meditation book, How to Train a Happy Mind.Episode 159: sujatha baliga & Scott Snibbe in conversation: How to Train a Happy MindSupport the show
2024-05-0743 min
Science & Wisdom LIVEScott Snibbe - Exploring Human Consciousness Through Science and SpiritualityJoin Scott Snibbe, a renowned speaker and the founder of a Skeptics Path to Enlightenment, as he dives into exploring human consciousness through science and spirituality. In this enlightening session, Scott reflects on his early fascination with consciousness sparked by philosophical works and his subsequent discovery of Buddhist perspectives.He critically examines the concept of consciousness through scientific and philosophical lenses, discussing theories from notable figures such as Daniel Dennett and David Chalmers. This video offers insight into the profound questions of human consciousness and its relation to our subjective experiences.Watch the full talk...
2024-05-0115 min
Science & Wisdom LIVEScott Snibbe - Understanding the Mental FactorsScott Snibbe discusses "Understanding The Mental Factors" within Mahayana and Tibetan Buddhism. This video delves into the five present mental factors that accompany every moment of consciousness, offering a deep dive into how these elements influence our perception, emotions, and actions. By understanding contact, perception, feeling, attention, and urge, we uncover how our minds are shaped by past conditioning and how we can transform our responses to create more meaningful and compassionate interactions with the world around us. Discover the practical applications of these mental factors in everyday life and learn how to harness the power of...
2024-04-2324 min
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2024-04-051h 29How to Train a Happy MindBook Passage Talk with Derek Fagerstrom #156Derek Fagerstrom interviews Scott Snibbe about his new book, How to Train a Happy Mind, at San Francisco’s Book Passage. Derek is the co-founder of Pop-up Magazine, and has worked at Esquire, Interview, and Francis Ford Coppola's literary journal Zoetrope: All-Story. How to Train a Happy Mind is out now in paperback, e-book, and audiobook. You can find it anywhere you buy books.Episode 156: Book Passage Talk with Derek FagerstromSupport the show
2024-04-0237 minHow to Train a Happy MindPrecious Life Meditation from How to Train a Happy Mind #155Scott Snibbe leads a meditation from his new book, How to Train a Happy Mind, on how to make the most of our precious lives.Episode 155: Precious Life MeditationSupport the show
2024-03-2616 minHow to Train a Happy MindThe Precious Life—Chapter Reading from How to Train a Happy Mind #154Scott Snibbe shares a chapter from his new book, How to Train a Happy Mind: The Precious Life. If you enjoy this episode, check out the whole audiobook on Audible, which includes guided meditations!Episode 154: The Precious Life—Chapter Reading from How to Train a Happy MindSupport the show
2024-03-1920 minHow to Train a Happy MindHow to Train a Happy Mind book launch conversation with Scott Snibbe and Vicki Mackenzi #153This is an exciting episode for the podcast because my book, How to Train a Happy Mind, comes out today. To celebrate its release, we're sharing a conversation I had with best-selling author Vicki McKenzie a couple of weeks ago at a book preview event in London, in front of a live audience.This podcast is where I developed most of the ideas for the book, based on more than a decade leading meditations that eventually formed many of our episodes. I want to thank all our listeners for your feedback and support over these four years...
2024-03-1237 min
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Title: How to Train a Happy Mind
Author: Scott Snibbe
Narrator: Scott Snibbe
Format: mp3
Length: 10 hrs
Release date: 03-12-24
Ratings: 5 out of 5 stars, 4 ratings
Genres: Spirituality
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Eager to share the life-enhancing benefits he found in Buddhism, skeptic Scott Snibbe presents this 8-step programme that allows anyone to build positive mental habits. Inspired by the ancient Buddhist path to enlightenment yet firmly grounded in modern science, How to Train a Happy Mind is the first mainstream book to show how you can achieve happiness using analytical meditation...
2024-03-1230 min
Destiny: Lost Knowledge for Todays WorldScott Snibbe: How to Train a Happy MindTRAIN YOUR MIND TOWARD LASTING CONNECTION AND JOYEager to share the life-enhancing benefits he found in Buddhism, skeptic Scott Snibbe presents this 8-step programme that allows anyone to build positive mental habits. Inspired by the ancient Buddhist path to enlightenment yet firmly grounded in modern science, How to Train a Happy Mind is the first mainstream book to show how you can achieve happiness using analytical meditation. Working in much the same way as cognitive behavioural therapy, analytical meditation goes beyond the calm-inducing practice of mindfulness to actively train the brain through easy-to-follow narrative visualizations....
2024-02-141h 28
Earth AncientsDestiny: Scott Snibbe, How to Train a Happy MindTRAIN YOUR MIND TOWARD LASTING CONNECTION AND JOYEager to share the life-enhancing benefits he found in Buddhism, skeptic Scott Snibbe presents this 8-step programme that allows anyone to build positive mental habits. Inspired by the ancient Buddhist path to enlightenment yet firmly grounded in modern science, How to Train a Happy Mind is the first mainstream book to show how you can achieve happiness using analytical meditation. Working in much the same way as cognitive behavioural therapy, analytical meditation goes beyond the calm-inducing practice of mindfulness to actively train the brain through easy-to-follow narrative visualizations....
2024-02-141h 28How to Train a Happy MindEquanimity Meditation with Scott Tusa #149Scott Tusa leads an equanimity meditation—based on the Mahayana Buddhist tradition—that works with three kinds of relationships in our life. The purpose is to cultivate compassion, loving-kindness, and understanding.Episode 149: Equanimity Meditation with Scott TusaSupport the show
2024-01-3014 minHow to Train a Happy MindWhat Is the Right Thing to Do? with Scott Tusa #148After ordination by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Scott Tusa spent nine years as a Tibetan Buddhist monk. Today, he's an irreverent meditation teacher and a brand-new father. In this episode, Scott and I talk about some hard decisions we've faced in life, and that the world faces today, asking ourselves, What is the right thing to do? Is there a right and wrong from a Buddhist perspective? How did Scott and I deal with the painful decisions we faced in our lives to get divorced and to give up a monastic life? We also grapple with one of...
2024-01-2337 minHow to Train a Happy MindLetting Go and Looking Forward in the New Year #147Scott Snibbe shares a gentle Buddhist approach to self-forgiveness, letting go, establishing good habits, and rejoicing in all the good we've done. Move into the new year with your best intentions and best self.Episode 147: Letting Go and Looking Forward in the New YearSupport the show
2024-01-0228 minHow to Train a Happy MindDan Harris: Love, Skepticism, and the "Cheesy Upward Spiral" [rebroadcast]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"This is a rebroadcast of one of the year's most popular episodes.Support the show
2023-12-1941 minHow to Train a Happy MindAI, Compassion, and Enlightenment with Dr. David Kittay #77/78 [rebroadcast]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)...
2023-10-311h 00How to Train a Happy MindCompassionate AI with Kristian Simsarian #80 [rebroadcast]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...
2023-09-1243 minHow to Train a Happy MindLoving Our Parents, Loving Our Children #76 [rebroadcast]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 ChildrenSupport the show
2023-09-0536 minHow to Train a Happy MindDan Harris: Love, Skepticism, and the "Cheesy Upward Spiral" #134Dan 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"Support the show
2023-07-2541 minHow to Train a Happy MindCompassion with Ven. Sangye Khadro and Scott Snibbe #129Last 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...
2023-03-0751 min
Science & Wisdom LIVEGuided Meditation: What happens when you die? – Scott SnibbeToday, we share a meditation workshop offered by Scott Snibbe, the host and producer of the meditation podcast ‘A Skeptic’s Path to Enlightenment’, and long-time collaborator of Science & Wisdom LIVE. Scott is a twenty-year student of Tibetan Buddhism, and leads meditations that infuse the pure lineage of the great Buddhist masters with science, humor, and the realities of the modern world.This guided meditation session, inspired by ancient Buddhist techniques, helps us explore a precise series of steps that our consciousness may experience as we die, in order to probe the boundary of life and death with c...
2022-09-2139 minHow to Train a Happy MindTen Million Percent Happier - Interview with Scott Snibbe #105Scott Snibbe becomes the interviewee in this week's episode as Ven. Fabienne Pradelle speaks with him about finding meaning and spirituality through art and creativity, love without attachment, misconceptions about Buddhism, the afterlife, and our infinite potential.Ep. 105: Ten Million Percent Happier - Interview with Scott SnibbeSupport the show
2022-04-261h 01How to Train a Happy MindVaccines and Compassion #94How does the Buddhist view on compassion help us think about COVID vaccine controversies? What do the Dalai Lama and the Pope have to say about vaccination? Without arguing for any one position, host Scott Snibbe and Producer Tara Anderson talk about how to stay loving and connected to people we disagree with, how to avoid "compassion fatigue," and how to (not) convince somebody to see things our way. Scott and Tara also share personal stories about growing up in an anti-vax household and deciding whether to vaccinate their young children.Episode 94: Vaccines and Compassion...
2021-11-3047 minHow to Train a Happy MindWhat is Enlightenment with Dr. Jan Willis #90Is enlightenment really possible for people like you and me? Do we lose ourselves when we become enlightened? Are there people on earth who are enlightened right now? Buddhist scholar Dr. Jan Willis answers these questions and more as we explore what enlightenment (or awakening) really means.Episode 90: What is Enlightenment with Dr. Jan WillisDr. Jan Willis has a distinguished career as a scholar and teacher of Buddhism that spans fifty years. She first met Tibetan Buddhists in India and Nepal at age nineteen and went on to earn degrees in Philosophy...
2021-11-0244 min
Everyday Buddhism: Making Everyday BetterA Skeptic's Path to Enlightenment with Scott Snibbe: A Rational Insight into Dharma As a Way to Create Happy MindsJoin me for a conversation with Scott Snibbe, the host of the podcast, A Skeptic's Path to Enlightenment. Enjoy a free-flowing conversation between two long-time Buddhist practitioners and podcast hosts as we talk about the power of Buddhism and meditation to help enhance our good qualities, make us happier, and—ultimately—help make those around us happier. Enjoy Scott's easy and fun style of explaining Buddhism and meditation. It will make you a believer if you weren't already. Like the smiling, joyful Tibetan Rinpoches, Geshes, and Khenpos, Scott's joyful personality is contagious. And if you are...
2021-09-231h 27How to Train a Happy MindCompassionate AI with Kristian Simsarian #80Artificial 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...
2021-08-2443 minHow to Train a Happy MindLoving Our Parents, Loving Our Children #76Host Scott Snibbe offers a touching personal talk and 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 ChildrenSupport the show
2021-07-2736 minHow to Train a Happy MindScott Tusa's Guided Meditation on Open Awareness #62Scott Tusa leads a guided meditation on open awareness, allowing feelings and thoughts to arise in our body and mind without fixation or judgment.Episode 62. Scott Tusa's Guided Meditation on Open AwarenessSupport the show
2021-04-2020 minHow to Train a Happy MindScott Tusa on Meditation and Mindfulness in Everyday Life #61Scott Tusa, mindfulness and Buddhist meditation teacher, talks with us on balancing a committed life of a Buddhist practitioner with the everyday life of work, friends, and family. He also shares some of the common challenges people face in meditation, and constructive, compassionate ways that we can work with these challenges.Episode 61. Scott Tusa on Meditation and Mindfulness in Everyday LifeSupport the show
2021-04-1343 min
Science & Wisdom LIVEIf the Buddha were born today... An interview with Scott SnibbeIn this episode of Science & Wisdom LIVE, Marco Colnaghi and Sajda van der Leeuw interview visual artist and entrepreneur Scott Snibbe. Scott host and creator of the podcast on meditation ‘A Skeptic’s Path to Enlightenment’ and has been the moderator of numerous Science & Wisdom LIVE events.Today, Scott will share some advice about how to start a meditation routine and discuss the benefits of different meditation techniques. He’ll also discuss how to integrate one’s contemplative practice with professional and family life, sharing some of his insights and personal experiences as a visual artist and Buddhist t...
2021-04-0153 minHow to Train a Happy MindHow Things Exist #37The Buddhist view on reality, called emptiness, combines the awe of scientific knowledge with the inner, experiential knowledge that comes from meditation and critical reasoning to arrive at a feeling of interconnectedness. The first in a seven-art series on Buddhism's view of dependent origination looks at how objects exist using the example of that most modern wonder and addiction, our smartphone.Episode 37. How Things ExistSupport the show
2020-10-1328 minHow to Train a Happy MindGuided Meditation: The Natural Goodness of our Mind — Ven. Sangye Khadro (Kathleen McDonald) #36A 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.Episode 36. Guided Meditation on the Natural Goodness of our Mind — Ven. Sangye Khadro (Kathleen McDonald)Support the show
2020-10-0617 minHow to Train a Happy MindVenerable Sangye Khadro (Kathleen McDonald) on The Natural Goodness of our Mind #35Venerable Sangye Khadro (Kathleen McDonald), renowned author of How to Meditate and fully ordained Tibetan Buddhist nun, talks about the natural goodness of our mind, karma, and powerful analytical meditation mind training techniques for living a compassionate, meaningful life.Episode 35. Venerable Sangye Khadro (Kathleen McDonald) on The Natural Goodness of our MindSupport the show
2020-09-2932 minHow to Train a Happy MindSympathetic Joy: Opening Your Heart to the Happiness of Others #34Sympathetic joy is an easy-to-understand meditation practice that expands our love and compassion by rejoicing in all the good things that others did today. It counteracts greed, jealousy, and envy, and can be done kicking back on the couch at the end of a hard day.Episode 34. Sympathetic Joy: Opening Your Heart to the Happiness of OthersSupport the show
2020-09-2221 minHow to Train a Happy MindBe Willing to Get Woke - Interview with Dr. Jan Willis #33Dr. Jan Willis, renowned scholar and teacher of Buddhism, talks about race and racism through a Buddhist lens. She shares stories about growing up with racism in Birmingham, Alabama; marching with Dr. Martin Luther King there in 1963; brushes with the Black Panthers; her experience as one of the first Westerners to dive deeply into Tibetan Buddhism; and how we can compassionately combat systemic racism and Anti-Blackness today.Dr. Willis has a distinguished career as a scholar and teacher of Buddhism that spans fifty years. She first met Tibetan Buddhists in India and Nepal when she was nineteen...
2020-09-1537 minHow to Train a Happy MindGuided Meditation: Universalizing our Problems and Pleasures #32A guided meditation on “universalizing,” a Tibetan Buddhist mind training technique for transforming our everyday problems and pleasures through love and compassion.Episode 32. Guided Meditation: Universalizing our Problems and PleasuresSupport the show
2020-09-0814 minHow to Train a Happy MindUniversalizing: Transforming Pain and Pleasure into Love and Compassion #31One of the most powerful Tibetan Buddhist mind training techniques is universalizing, a practice that transforms everyday pains and pleasures into profound meditations. From arguing with the family to stuffing yourself with a delicious meal, life’s problems and pleasures can bring anger, guilt, and sadness. The meditation technique of “universalization” transform our everyday experiences of pleasure and pain into engines of love and compassion.Episode 31. Universalizing: Transforming Pain and Pleasure into Love and CompassionSupport the show
2020-09-0124 minHow to Train a Happy MindGuided Tonglen Meditation: Exchanging Yourself with Others #30Tonglen is a meditation practice that combines meditating on loving-kindness with meditating on compassion to release our own pain, suffering, and loneliness. In translation, tonglen practice can be called “taking and giving” or “exchanging self with other." Tonglen is one of the “mind training” techniques from Tibetan Buddhism that reverses our ordinary state of mind of selfishly seeking happiness and pleasure for ourselves and those close to us. Instead, we willingly open ourselves to the suffering of others.Episode 30. Guided Tonglen Meditation: Exchanging Yourself with OthersSupport the show
2020-08-1824 minHow to Train a Happy MindGuided Compassion Meditation #29A 15-minute guided meditation on compassion: the wish to take away others’ suffering.Episode 29. Guided Compassion MeditationSupport the show
2020-08-1116 minHow to Train a Happy MindWhat Is Compassion? #28Compassion is starting to rival mindfulness as the next most popular up-and-coming form of secular meditation. But what is compassion? Compassion, from the Buddhist perspective, is not just empathizing with others’ suffering, but actively wishing to take it away.Episode 28. What Is Compassion?Support the show
2020-08-0425 minHow to Train a Happy MindKhen Rinpoche Geshe Tashi Tsering on Karma, Analytical Meditation, and Mindfulness #27Khen Rinpoche Geshe Tashi Tsering shares his profound insights on a secular understanding of karma, the importance of analytical meditation, and a warning that the popularity of meditation today might just kill it.Episode 27. Khen Rinpoche Geshe Tashi Tsering on Karma, Analytical Meditation, and MindfulnessSupport the show
2020-07-2837 minHow to Train a Happy MindGuided Meditation on Love #26A guided meditation on love, or loving-kindness, the expansive form of love wishing happiness not only to friends and family but to all beings everywhere including our enemies.Episode 26. Guided Meditation on LoveSupport the show
2020-07-2122 minHow to Train a Happy MindWhat Is Love? #25Love is complex in our culture, tied up with finding a single person to satisfy our huge list of needs and dreams who we then grant the exclusive gift of our affection. But love—loving-kindness from the Buddhist perspective—is simpler, free from attachment. It's wishing others to be happy.Episode 25. What Is Love?Support the show
2020-07-1421 minHow to Train a Happy MindThe Dalai Lama’s “Simple Meditation” #24On Ten Percent Happier a few weeks ago, The Dalai Lama described to Dan Harris a “simple meditation” for these times. This guided meditation is an interpretation of the two meditations His Holiness recommends in the morning: meditating on the mind and meditating on the kindness of others.Episode 24. The Dalai Lama's "Simple Meditation"Support the show
2020-07-0728 minHow to Train a Happy MindGuided Meditation: Transforming Bias with Equanimity #23The Buddhist meditation on equanimity teaches a technique to eliminate bias and expand our love and concern from family and friends to strangers and even enemies. It tames our fierce attachment to loved ones and our anger toward enemies for a stabler, happier mind and a more just and equitable world.Episode 23: Guided Meditation: Transforming Bias with EquanimitySupport the show
2020-06-3019 minHow to Train a Happy MindSpiritual Democracy #22In everyday life we’re torn between fierce attachment to our loved ones and anger at those that give us trouble. But Buddhism, democracy, and social justice tell us that all people deserve the same rights and freedoms: we’re all equal and we all deserve happiness. The Buddhist meditation on equanimity, applied to our everyday relationships and the painful daily news, teaches us a technique of “spiritual democracy” for developing healthy feelings of connection to others—even those we most despise.Episode 22. Spiritual DemocracySupport th
2020-06-2328 minHow to Train a Happy MindInterview: Venerable Robina Courtin — Buddha's Science of Mind #21Venerable Robina Courtin, Buddhist nun and advocate for prisoner’s rights, on how activists can leverage meditation and mind training, how Buddhism functions as a science of the mind, and how being a Buddhist doesn’t mean being a pushover.Episode 21. Venerable Robina Courtin — Buddha's Science of MindSupport the show
2020-06-1747 minHow to Train a Happy MindGuided Meditation: Fighting Systemic Racism through Compassionate Action #BlackLivesMatter #20A guided meditation on fighting the systemic racism against Black Americans through compassionate action.Episode 20. Guided Meditation: Fighting Systemic Racism through Compassionate Action #BlackLivesMatterSupport the show
2020-06-0930 minHow to Train a Happy MindThe Adventure So Far: Analytic Meditation on the Stages of the Path #19A guided analytical meditation through Skeptic’s Path meditations, based on Tibetan Buddhism’s Lamrim Stages of the Path. Each meditation is part of an adventure for the mind to bring about inner joy and purpose considering Life’s Preciousness, Impermanence, Cause & Effect, Refuge, Suffering, and Renunciation.Episode 19. The Adventure So Far: Analytic Meditation on the Stages of the PathSupport the show
2020-06-0249 minHow to Train a Happy MindGuided Meditation: Renunciation #18Dostoevsky once said, “The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison.” This is the point of meditating on renunciation: to gain a clear-eyed sense of our state of mind right now, with many moments of frustration and anger and impatience and craving: feelings that we'd rather be free from. And turning away from these delusions toward liberation, a the true source of refuge that we can find within our own mind.Episode 18. Guided Meditation: RenunciationSupport the show
2020-05-2623 minHow to Train a Happy MindThe Red Pill of Renunciation - Embracing Reality as It Is #17What do The Matrix and Jerry Seinfeld have to do with renouncing suffering?Episode 17. The Red Pill of Renunciation - Embracing Reality As It IsSupport the show
2020-05-1927 minHow to Train a Happy MindGuided Meditation: Letting Go of Suffering #16A clear-eyed meditation on suffering: both what suffering is, and the mental source of suffering in our delusions of attachment, anger, and self-centered ignorance. We practice the antidotes to these delusions, giving us tools for a more balanced, less self-centered view of our experience that offers sustained stability and happiness through life’s challenges and desires.Episode 16: Guided Meditation - Letting Go of SufferingIf you're enjoying our podcast, please leave us a rating or review in the iTunes App StoreSupport the show
2020-05-1228 minHow to Train a Happy MindAm I More Important Than Everyone Else in the Universe? #15Do each of us believe deep down that we’re just a little bit more important than everyone else? My happiness, my goals, my relationships? The root cause of our suffering from the Buddhist perspective is this belief, a delusion called ignorance, seen as the true source of all our suffering: from disappointment in the face of life’s setbacks, to the dissatisfaction we can feel even when we get exactly what we want. It’s a retelling of the Buddha’s very first teaching, The Four Noble Truths: on suffering, its causes and antidotes, with a modern twist.
2020-05-0538 minHow to Train a Happy MindWhat Do You Do When You're Alone? #14What do you do when you’re alone? When you’re anxious, lonely, or afraid, when you feel strong craving? What do you turn to? In this episode we look at where our mind runs when we feel pain, when we don’t feel balanced or whole. We’ll examine the Buddhist view on this subject that reveals a deep source of strength and support within our own minds accessible to each of us any time we need it.Episode 14: What Do You Do When You're Alone?If you're enjoying our podcast, please leave us a rating...
2020-04-2827 minHow to Train a Happy MindPodcast Trailer - How to Train a Happy MindThe How to Train a Happy Mind podcast brings Buddhist meditation to modern people hungry for happy, meaningful lives. Each week on the podcast, I and my guests share powerful mind training techniques that go beyond mindfulness to harness our intelligence, emotions, and imagination. Our approach to meditation is secular, based on science and psychology, yet grounded in the authentic thousand-year old tradition of analytical mediation I learned directly from great Tibetan Buddhist masters including His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Come check it out!Support the show
2020-04-2800 minHow to Train a Happy MindGuided Meditation: Alone Together #13Millions are now faced with enforced solitude, while others, in the crush of families together all day, realize how much we needed that time alone we took for granted. The essence of meditation is getting to know yourself alone, without social stimulus, entertainment, or reputation—what we truly are deep inside ourselves. There, we can find in our mind a place of satisfaction that’s equally at ease when we’re alone or when we’re with others.Episode 13: Guided Meditation — Alone TogetherIf you're enjoying our podcast, please leave us a rating or review in the iTu...
2020-04-2133 minHow to Train a Happy MindGuided Meditation: Mental Cause and Effect #12A meditation practice of self reflection, taking control of the mental cause and effect that's normally unconscious: the habits and activities conditioned by evolution, our upbringing, society and the media. This is a practice you can do at the end of each day: reviewing your day, rejoicing in the positive, and finding ways to sincerely forgive yourself for anything that you regret, so you can sleep better and be your best self the next day.Episode 12. Guided Meditation: Mental Cause and EffectIf you're enjoying our podcast, please leave us a rating or review in...
2020-04-1422 minHow to Train a Happy MindMental Cause and Effect #11Science has greater and greater mastery in understanding and controlling physical cause and effect, from planets to particles, but we are only starting to understand cause and effect in our minds. Evolution, habits, and society all affect our behavior. How do we gain conscious control of our behavior, much less our thoughts? One method is a daily practice of self-appreciation and self-forgiveness that lets us release regret and pain to face each day with renewed presence and joy.Episode 11: Mental Cause and EffectIf you're enjoying our podcast, please leave us a rating or review...
2020-04-0732 minHow to Train a Happy MindGuided Meditation: Embracing Impermanence #10A guided meditation on impermanence that helps us release fear and anxiety to embrace the constant change at every scale of reality: from particles, possessions, homes, and the environment, to our thoughts, feelings, and perceptions, and relationships. When we embrace impermanence, we more easily take on challenges like today’s Coronavirus crisis. We become more fully present to those around us and we can even more deeply appreciate life’s impermanent pleasures.Episode 10. Guided Meditation: Embracing ImpermanenceIf you're enjoying our podcast, please leave us a rating or review in the iTunes App StoreSu...
2020-03-3121 minHow to Train a Happy MindEmbracing Impermanence #9We cling to things as if they won’t change, but change is the nature of reality. When we embrace impermanence, we prepare ourselves for big changes, and are able to let go of our fear and anxiety to become more fully present to those around us, to make the most meaningful choices day-to-day, and to more deeply appreciate life’s fleeting pleasures.Episode 9. Embracing ImpermanenceIf you're enjoying our podcast, please leave us a rating or review in the iTunes App StoreSupport the show
2020-03-2424 minHow to Train a Happy MindGuided Meditation: Combatting Coronavirus Fear With Compassion #8A guided meditation combatting fear of the Coronavirus through compassion using the technique of Taking and Giving (in Tibetan, Tonglen). We soothe our own fear and anxiety by imagining how others are suffering now, just as we are. And we sincerely wish to help, to take away their pain, through a powerful guided visualization.Episode 8. Guided Meditation: Combatting Coronavirus Fear With CompassionIf you're enjoying our podcast, please leave us a rating or review in the iTunes App StoreSupport the show
2020-03-1726 minHow to Train a Happy MindGuided Meditation: What Is the Mind? #7This guided meditation takes us through different ways of observing the mind, first examining its ever-present parts: perception, feeling, will, and awareness. Then we explore the nature of subjective reality itself by asking what is the mind without thoughts? Where is the space of our consciousness? And, how finely can we slice moments of consciousness? Do we ever arrive at a quantum of consciousness?Episode 7. Guided Meditation: What Is the Mind?Support the show
2020-03-1028 minHow to Train a Happy MindWhat Is the Mind? #6If the mind is our thoughts, then what is it that observes those thoughts? What are we without thoughts? Do we ever truly see an object, or only its mental reconstruction? Though we are all convinced that we have one, science has no agreed definition for consciousness or mind. Even subjectively, the mind is elusive, difficult to pin to any specific mental experience.Episode 6. What Is the Mind?Support the show
2020-03-0319 minHow to Train a Happy MindGuided Meditation: The Preciousness of Life #5A guided meditation on the preciousness of our next 24 hours alive and our unique place in the universe as science understands it: intelligent, self-aware beings at the end of 14 billion years’ cosmic and biological evolution.Episode 5. Guided Meditation: The Preciousness of LifeIf you are enjoying our podcast, please leave us a rating and reviewSupport the show
2020-02-2516 minHow to Train a Happy MindThe Preciousness of Life from Cosmos to the Kardashians #4Regarding the possibility of reincarnation, Voltaire once said, “It is not more surprising to be born twice than once.” In this episode we contemplate the miracle of existing at all, from our place at the end of our universe’s 14 billion years’ evolution, to the simple joy of another 24 hours alive.Episode 4. The Preciousness of Life from Cosmos to the KardashiansIf you are enjoying our podcast, please leave us a rating and reviewSupport the show
2020-02-1818 minHow to Train a Happy MindGuided Meditation: Stabilizing the Mind and Watching Thoughts #3A complete guided meditation session expanding your compassion, stabilizing concentration on the breath, and observing your thoughts.Episode 3. Guided Meditation: Stabilizing the Mind and Watching ThoughtsLeave us a rating and reviewSupport the show
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