How to Train a Happy Mind
Scott Snibbe
The How to Train a Happy Mind podcast brings meditation to modern people hungry for happy, meaningful lives. Each week, host Scott Snibbe and his guests share powerful mind training techniques that go beyond mindfulness to harness our intelligence, emotions, and imagination. Learn how to build a happy mind, fulfilling relationships, and a better world through a secular approach to meditation that is based on modern science and psychology, yet grounded in the authentic thousand-year old Tibetan Buddhist tradition of analytical meditation. How to Train a Happy Mind is a project of the nonprofit Skeptic's Path to Enlightenment. Our host, Scott Snibbe, is a twenty-five-year student of Tibetan Buddhism whose teachers include His Holiness the Dalai Lama and Lama Zopa Rinpoche. Snibbe is the author of the popular How to Train a Happy Mind book, and leads meditation classes and retreats worldwide infused with science, humor, and the realities of the modern world.
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Jul 14, 2020 • 21min
What Is Love? #25
Love 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
Jul 7, 2020 • 28min
The Dalai Lama’s “Simple Meditation” #24
On 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
Jun 30, 2020 • 19min
Guided Meditation: Transforming Bias with Equanimity #23
The 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
Jun 23, 2020 • 29min
Spiritual Democracy #22
In 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 the show
Jun 17, 2020 • 48min
Interview: Venerable Robina Courtin — Buddha's Science of Mind #21
Venerable 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
Jun 9, 2020 • 31min
Guided Meditation: Fighting Systemic Racism through Compassionate Action #BlackLivesMatter #20
A 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
Jun 2, 2020 • 49min
The Adventure So Far: Analytic Meditation on the Stages of the Path #19
A 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
May 26, 2020 • 24min
Guided Meditation: Renunciation #18
Dostoevsky 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
May 19, 2020 • 27min
The Red Pill of Renunciation - Embracing Reality as It Is #17
What 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
May 12, 2020 • 28min
Guided Meditation: Letting Go of Suffering #16
A 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
