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How to Train a Happy Mind

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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Update frequency
every 7 days
Average duration
32 minutes
Episodes
292
Years Active
2020 - 2025
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Four Noble Truths of Love with Susan Piver #88

Four Noble Truths of Love with Susan Piver #88

NYT bestselling author and Buddhist meditation teacher Susan Piver shares her Four Noble Truths of Love, a framework anybody can use for deeper, more fulfilling, and more connected intimate relations…

00:48:49  |   Tue 19 Oct 2021
Becoming Loving-Kindness - A Guided Meditation with Elaine Jackson #87

Becoming Loving-Kindness - A Guided Meditation with Elaine Jackson #87

Elaine Jackson guides a heart-warming Buddhist loving-kindness meditation (metta meditation). This meditation uses visualization to bring about our natural state of loving awareness for ourselves and…

00:26:41  |   Tue 12 Oct 2021
Buddhist Relationship Advice with Elaine Jackson #86

Buddhist Relationship Advice with Elaine Jackson #86

How do we integrate the wisdom of Buddhism into our intimate relationships? Elaine Jackson shares Buddhist relationship advice for navigating arguments selflessly, knowing when a relationship is over…

00:56:49  |   Tue 05 Oct 2021
Guided Meditation on Pleasure #85

Guided Meditation on Pleasure #85

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, an…

00:24:08  |   Tue 28 Sep 2021
Pleasure and Buddhism: Food, Sex, and Netflix on the Path to Enlightenment #84

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

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 porta…

00:30:08  |   Tue 21 Sep 2021
Guided Meditation on Four Levels of Happiness #83

Guided Meditation on Four Levels of Happiness #83

A daily meditation on the four levels of happiness in Buddhism. Investigate the varying depths of happiness you get from sensory pleasures, positive states of mind, meditation, and the very nature of…

00:29:47  |   Tue 14 Sep 2021
Four Kinds of Happiness with Ven. Sangye Khadro #82

Four Kinds of Happiness with Ven. Sangye Khadro #82

Explore the four kinds of happiness in Buddhism with Ven. Sangye Khadro (Kathleen McDonald). This episode offers an opportunity to reflect on where we derive our happiness from and how we can live ha…

00:22:43  |   Tue 07 Sep 2021
A Biologist and a Buddhist Monk on the Nature of Reality: A Conversation with Geshe Namdak and Dr. Rupert Sheldrake #81

A Biologist and a Buddhist Monk on the Nature of Reality: A Conversation with Geshe Namdak and Dr. Rupert Sheldrake #81

A biologist and a Buddhist monk have a conversation on how science can make sense of rebirth, emptiness, and karma, the origins of consciousness and creativity, and how modern science's understanding…

01:00:38  |   Tue 31 Aug 2021
Compassionate AI with Kristian Simsarian #80

Compassionate AI with Kristian Simsarian #80

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 …

00:44:20  |   Tue 24 Aug 2021
Guided Meditation: Four Foundations of Mindfulness with Dr. David Kittay #79

Guided Meditation: Four Foundations of Mindfulness with Dr. David Kittay #79

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:…

00:28:32  |   Tue 17 Aug 2021
Buddhism and Technology with Dr. David Kittay (Part 2) #78

Buddhism and Technology with Dr. David Kittay (Part 2) #78

Dr. David Kittay discusses science fiction, emptiness, whether life is a simulation, whether we should treat AI robots with compassion, and whether the singularity might be another term for enlighten…

00:24:08  |   Tue 10 Aug 2021
Buddhism and Technology with Dr. David Kittay (Part 1) #77

Buddhism and Technology with Dr. David Kittay (Part 1) #77

Dr. David Kittay joins the show to talk about whether technologically assisted enlightenment is possible, the nature of time, whether our phones and our social media accounts have become part of ours…

00:40:49  |   Tue 03 Aug 2021
Loving Our Parents, Loving Our Children #76

Loving Our Parents, Loving Our Children #76

Host 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 com…

00:37:41  |   Tue 27 Jul 2021
10-Minute Meditation to Relax the Mind with Dza Kilung Rinpoche #75

10-Minute Meditation to Relax the Mind with Dza Kilung Rinpoche #75

Tibetan Buddhist Lama Dza Kilung Rinpoche leads a 10 minute meditation to relax into the vast spaciousness of heart and mind.

Episode 75: 10-Minute Meditation to Relax the Mind with Dza Kilung Rinpoch…

00:10:58  |   Tue 20 Jul 2021
The Relaxed Mind with Dza Kilung Rinpoche #74

The Relaxed Mind with Dza Kilung Rinpoche #74

Tibetan Buddhist teacher Dza Kilung Rinpoche shares seven meditation practices for a relaxed mind, heart, and body.

The extraordinary Tibetan Buddhist Lama and teacher Dza Kilung Rinpoche talks to us …

00:48:56  |   Tue 13 Jul 2021
Guided Meditation: 7 Steps to Compassion with Ven. Gyalten Lekden #73

Guided Meditation: 7 Steps to Compassion with Ven. Gyalten Lekden #73

Buddhist monk Ven. Gyalten Lekden guides a Seven-Fold Cause and Effect Meditation to develop compassion and Bodhicitta (the mind of awakening)

Episode 73. Guided Meditation: 7 Steps to Compassion with…

00:46:26  |   Tue 06 Jul 2021
Engaged Buddhism with Ven. Gyalten Lekden #72

Engaged Buddhism with Ven. Gyalten Lekden #72

Buddhist monk Ven. Gyalten on engaged Buddhism that actively grapples with social injustice, gender inequality, climate change, and racism.

Episode 72. Engaged Buddhism with Ven. Gyalten Lekden

From Au…

00:40:20  |   Tue 29 Jun 2021
Guided Meditation: How Money Exists #71

Guided Meditation: How Money Exists #71

A 20-minute guided analytical meditation on how money exists through parts, causes, and the mind in our interdependent, empty reality.

Episode 71. Guided Meditation: How Money Exists


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00:23:21  |   Tue 22 Jun 2021
Bitcoin and Buddhism #70

Bitcoin and Buddhism #70

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?

Episode 70. Bitcoin and Buddhism

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00:43:23  |   Tue 15 Jun 2021
Just Like a Mountain 10 Minute Meditation on Accepting Change

Just Like a Mountain 10 Minute Meditation on Accepting Change

A 10 minute guided meditation on mindful, nonjudgmental acceptance of change by Theo Koffler, founder of Mindfulness without Borders.

Just Like a Mountain 10 Minute Meditation on Accepting Change

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00:11:05  |   Thu 10 Jun 2021
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