Guided Meditation: The Possibility of Enlightenment
If Buddhist enlightenment is transcending a narrow, separate sense of self, what might that expansive self feel like?| How to Train a Happy Mind
If Buddhist enlightenment is transcending a narrow, separate sense of self, what might that expansive self feel like?| How to Train a Happy Mind
Dr. David Kittay explores whether AI can lead to enlightenment or surpass humanity, while emphasizing simpler paths to happiness over technological fixes. The post AI and Enlightenment with Dr. David Kittay #201 appeared first on How to Train a Happy Mind.| How to Train a Happy Mind
Scott Snibbe offers a talk and meditation to the Train a Happy Mind community on the question, Is enlightenment possible? The post Is Enlightenment Possible? #200 appeared first on How to Train a Happy Mind.| How to Train a Happy Mind
This is a guided meditation from the wonderful Venerable René Feusi. His loving guidance will open the warm heart of awareness within you.| How to Train a Happy Mind
Venerable René Feusi talks about how focused awareness can help us live with joy—not just in meditation, but walking, sipping tea, listening to music, or even playing with your cat. The post Concentration Makes Us Happy! with Ven. Rene Feusi #198 appeared first on How to Train a Happy Mind.| How to Train a Happy Mind
This 20 minute guided meditation is based on the Tibetan Buddhist lamrim, offering a nonreligious way to train a happy mind.| How to Train a Happy Mind
Welcome to this guided meditation on accessing joy with Tenzin Chogkyi. In this practice, we’ll take time to settle the body, connect with the breath, and gently open to the feeling of joy. The post Joyful Effort: A Guided Meditation with Tenzin Chogkyi #196 appeared first on How to Train a Happy Mind.| How to Train a Happy Mind
This meditation was recorded the day after the U.S. launched a new bombing campaign in Iran. Scott reflects on how to end war and violence.| How to Train a Happy Mind
Tenzin Chogkyi talks about one of the six perfections, enthusiasm or joyful effort. The post Joy and Enthusiasm—Even When Life’s Hard—with Tenzin Chogkyi #194 appeared first on How to Train a Happy Mind.| How to Train a Happy Mind
Join Scott for this meditation that summarizes every step of the path from the preciousness of life to the interdependent nature of reality. The post 10-Minute Path to a Happy Mind Guided Meditation appeared first on How to Train a Happy Mind.| How to Train a Happy Mind
Join Scott for this meditation that summarizes every step of the path from the preciousness of life to the interdependent nature of reality.| How to Train a Happy Mind
“It is not more surprising to be born twice than once.” Contemplating the miracle of our place in this vast universe.| How to Train a Happy Mind
Dr. Rick Hanson, best-selling author of Buddha’s Brain, shares the neuroscience of expanding our inner happiness without denying our pain.| How to Train a Happy Mind
Could the true cause of happiness be simply thinking about whatever we are doing at the moment, what meditators call mindfulness?| How to Train a Happy Mind
A complete guided meditation session expanding your compassion, stabilizing the mind, and observing your thoughts.| How to Train a Happy Mind
Venerable Sangye Khadro and Scott Snibbe discuss compassion in this talk organized by the Foundation for Compassion and Wisdom.| How to Train a Happy Mind
How things exist breaks objects down into parts, causes, and a mind that bundles them into the illusion of something separate & solid.| How to Train a Happy Mind
Susan Piver leads a short breath awareness meditation; if you were to go down the Buddhist path, you would start with this practice.| How to Train a Happy Mind
Susan Piver talks about her new book, Inexplicable Joy, which explores one of Buddhism's most famous and mysterious texts, the heart sutra.| How to Train a Happy Mind
Transformative activist and restorative justice advocate Kazu Haga talks about his new book, Fierce Vulnerability.| How to Train a Happy Mind
A meditation session, like a great story, has an arc, including posture, motivation, stabilizing, and analytic meditation| How to Train a Happy Mind
Am I just a little more important than everyone else? This view, from the Buddhist perspective, is the root of our suffering.| How to Train a Happy Mind
What do you do when you’re alone? When you’re anxious or lonely? There's a deep source of strength in our minds that’s always available.| How to Train a Happy Mind
A self-reflection meditation to take control of your mental cause and effect—that's normally unconscious—to be your best self.| How to Train a Happy Mind
What is meditation? Analytic meditation doesn't just reduce stress, but enhances our greatest human qualities.| How to Train a Happy Mind
Discover which objects of mindfulness meditation work best for you: breath, body, awareness, or mind. Guided meditations included.| How to Train a Happy Mind
The first time I went to see the Dalai Lama I was skeptical, but the first things he said was, "Don't become a Buddhist."| How to Train a Happy Mind
Even a short 10-minute meditation has the power to calm your body and mind and improve your overall well-being.| How to Train a Happy Mind
A 10 minute guided meditation on the body, relaxing into the open connection between body and mind through mindful awareness.| How to Train a Happy Mind
Dr. Jan Willis guides us through the 6 perfections: generosity, morality, patience, joyful effort, concentration, and wisdom.| How to Train a Happy Mind
What is the mind without thoughts? Where is the space of our consciousness? Do we ever arrive at a quantum of consciousness?| How to Train a Happy Mind
If the mind is our thoughts, who observes those thoughts? What are we without thoughts? Do we ever truly see an object?| How to Train a Happy Mind
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The meaty topic of how to deal with difficult people—what Mark Westmoquette calls 'troublesome Buddhas”—in this Skeptic’s Path to Enlightement interview| How to Train a Happy Mind
A short guided meditation on loving-kindness and compassion by Tibetan Buddhist lama, author, and abstract painter Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche| How to Train a Happy Mind
A meditation on the mental antidotes that oppose the true source of suffering: our attachment, anger, and self-centered ignorance.| How to Train a Happy Mind
Morning, afternoon, or evening meditations each has its own benefits. Find out which one is right for your lifestyle.| How to Train a Happy Mind
8 meditation positions to meet the needs of any meditator: find the posture that works for you (with pictures) and learn why posture matters| How to Train a Happy Mind
Scott Snibbe’s first book, How to Train a Happy Mind, based on the popular Skeptic’s Path to Enlightenment podcast and course| How to Train a Happy Mind
Scott Snibbe leads a meditation on compassion after the recent election of Donald Trump as the next president.| How to Train a Happy Mind
Start your morning with calm and focus using our guided morning meditation for beginners, perfect for setting a positive tone for the day.| How to Train a Happy Mind
Four great days in a meditation retreat on How to Train a Happy Mind with Scott Snibbe on topics like love, compassion, and the ultimate nature of reality| How to Train a Happy Mind
We cling to things as if they won’t change but change is the nature of reality. By embracing impermanence we become fully present.| A Skeptic's Path to Enlightenment
A guided mediation to embrace impermanence, releasing fear and anxiety to become more fully present to those around us.| A Skeptic's Path to Enlightenment
How to adapt the Tibetan Buddhist lamrim tradition of analytical meditation for modern secular people's personal psychological development.| A Skeptic's Path to Enlightenment
Gratitude is one of the best ways of cultivating joy, find out how to practice gratitude meditation and explore our list of free meditations.| A Skeptic's Path to Enlightenment
Tenzin Chogkyi leads a guided meditation that uses Buddhist techniques to cultivate compassion for yourself and others.| A Skeptic's Path to Enlightenment
Buddhist nun and prisoner’s rights advocate, Venerable Robina Courtin on Buddha's science of mind and how this doesn’t mean being a pushover.| A Skeptic's Path to Enlightenment
Laurie Anderson leads a guided meditation on death and rebirth inspired by the Tibetan Buddhist understanding of what happens when we die.| A Skeptic's Path to Enlightenment
NYT bestselling author and Buddhist meditation teacher Susan Piver shares her Four Noble Truths of Love from her new book.| A Skeptic's Path to Enlightenment
Evolution, habits, and society all affect our behavior, but we can gain conscious control by releasing pain and cultivating joy.| A Skeptic's Path to Enlightenment
The Buddhist view on reality, called emptiness, combines science with the inner, experiential knowledge that comes from meditation.| A Skeptic's Path to Enlightenment
A guided 10-minute breath meditation for cultivating mindfulness, open awareness, goodness, and relaxation.| A Skeptic's Path to Enlightenment
Meditate on the natural goodness of our mind to let go of anger, anxiety, or fear and cultivate compassion, wisdom, and courage.| A Skeptic's Path to Enlightenment
Dan Harris, host of the podcast Ten Percent Happier, leads a loving-kindness meditation that positively impacts mental and physical health.| A Skeptic's Path to Enlightenment
A Skeptic’s Path to Enlightenment podcast brings the inner science of Buddhist meditation to twenty-first century people hungry for happy, meaningful lives.| How to Train a Happy Mind
Analytical meditation is where you deliberately fill your mind with thoughts and emotions including love, compassion, wisdom, and generosity.| A Skeptic's Path to Enlightenment
DJ Spooky and Scott Snibbe talk about Scott's new book, How to Train a Happy Mind, at The Rubin Museum.| A Skeptic's Path to Enlightenment
An inside peak into one of Scott's guided meditations for the Train a Happy Mind community, on letting go of suffering, anger, & craving.| A Skeptic's Path to Enlightenment
Find the perfect read to enhance your meditation practice with this top 12 list of meditation books in 2024.| A Skeptic's Path to Enlightenment
Former Buddhist nun Tenzin Chogkyi dives head on into the challenging topics of hierarchy, patriarchy, gender, and sexism in Buddhism.| A Skeptic's Path to Enlightenment
The Dalai Lama recommends this morning meditation: meditating on the nature of the mind, followed by meditating on the kindness of others.| How to Train a Happy Mind
How much of your life have you spent trying to change yourself? Discover the power of radical self-acceptance with the wisdom of Tara Brach.| A Skeptic's Path to Enlightenment
Explore the age-old debate on whether money can truly buy happiness, using scientific evidence and Buddhist wisdom.| A Skeptic's Path to Enlightenment
Venerable Thubten Chodron offers a Buddhist meditation to help work through anger in a compassionate and loving manner.| A Skeptic's Path to Enlightenment
Venerable Thubten Chodron, author of Working with Anger, offers a Buddhist perspective on managing and healing anger in difficult situations.| A Skeptic's Path to Enlightenment
Tenzin Chogkyi talks to Scott Snibbe about his new book, How to Train a Happy Mind, at San Francisco's Medicine for Nightmares bookstore| A Skeptic's Path to Enlightenment
Venerable Robina Courtin guides a beautiful Tara meditation on hope that uses visualization and Buddhist teachings.| A Skeptic's Path to Enlightenment
Venerable Robina Courtin discusses how to deal with the despair many people feel today about war, injustice, inequity, and the environment.| A Skeptic's Path to Enlightenment
Yangsi Rinpoche talks about how to practice real self-compassion and the ways we can create the causes for world peace.| A Skeptic's Path to Enlightenment
Meenadchi, a somatic healing practitioner, talks about her book, Decolonizing Nonviolent Communication, and how Buddhism influences her work.| How to Train a Happy Mind
Scott Tusa and Scott Snibbe discuss how Buddhism approaches hard choices: in their own lives, and in world conflicts like Israel and Gaza.| How to Train a Happy Mind
Dr. Katherine MacLean discusses what psychedelics and meditation have in common and when these substances might be of benefit.| How to Train a Happy Mind
