In this guided meditation, Stephen Batchelor invites you to unconditionally embrace your experience of the moment, to simply watch all thoughts, feelings, and emotions, and notice the ground of nonreactive awareness. This guides you toward a path rooted in freedom, openness, and love. Stephen Batchelor: Thank you for joining this meditation session. I’m going to give a guided meditation which will start with where we are right now and explore how our experience might unfold along a path. Settling in Let’s begin by finding a comfortable posture. If you’re sitting on a chair then make sure your ..read more

Derek Fagerstrom interviews Scott Snibbe about his new book, How to Train a Happy Mind, at the 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. Introduction to Scott and Derek [00:00:50] Cheryl Bronstein: Good evening, everyone, and welcome to Book Passage. Thanks for joining us for an in-person event. My name’s Cheryl Bronstein, I’m one of the event coor ..read more

See Scott Snibbe in person with prominent artists, musicians, authors, and Buddhist teachers during the 2024 tour for his new book How to Train a Happy Mind. VICKI MACKENZIE & SCOTT SNIBBE IN LONDON Best-selling author Vicki Mackenzie interviews Scott Snibbe at London’s Jamyang Buddhist Centre in a pre-release event for his book How to Train a Happy Mind. February 23, 2024 WATCH / LISTEN TO THE INTERVIEW NORTH BAY CONVERSATION & BOOK SIGNING—SCOTT SNIBBE AND DEREK FAGERSTROM Scott Snibbe and Pop Up Magazine co-founder Derek Fagerstrom chat about Scott’s new book at Corte Madera ..read more

Scott Snibbe reads a meditation from his new book, How to Train a Happy Mind, on the Tibetan tradition called the Precious Life. Scott Snibbe: In this episode I’m going to lead a meditation that’s the first topic among the sequence of analytical meditations we practice in the Tibetan tradition called the Precious Life. It’s different from the way Buddhists typically practice this topic, because it relies only on an understanding of the world the way science and psychology can currently validate. It also draws on some of the profound wonder we can feel when we understand the place of humanity ..read more

[00:00:11] Scott Snibbe: This 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 Mackenzie 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. You’ve helped me develop the book’s ..read more

Meenadchi guides a meditation on discovering, playing with, and feeling the good things in your body through a light visualization. Meenadchi: Welcome, everybody, my name is Meenachi. I use she, her pronouns. I’m going to be leading you through a meditation that’s going to be guiding you to find, discover, play with, and feel the good things in your body. Using your intuition and practicing mindfulness It is very common to focus on things that are hard, painful, icky, it’s so much easier to feel the stuff that’s not going well. This is how we stay safe, by keeping our senses, our eyes, our ea ..read more

Dr. Suzanne Wertheim is the author of The Inclusive Language Field Guide. An academic for many years, she now specializes in analyzing and addressing bias at work, helping companies like Google and Reddit promote speech that’s more inclusive and connecting. After I read Suzanne’s book, I was struck by the parallels between her work and the Buddhist ethical foundation of right speech. In our interview, we talk about embarrassing mistakes we’ve both made in our speech, how to both forcefully and compassionately confront harmful speech, and how to recognize and transform the bias in our own langu ..read more

It is hard to be around someone who is negative, judgmental, or close-minded, but you can always block their number, walk out of the room, or even plug your ears and start singing at the top of your lungs. But what do you do if the person you don’t want to be around is you? There is no escaping yourself—even though many of us try—through distractions like drugs, work, exercise, or sex. The only solution is to become friends with yourself, because liking yourself is key to living a happy life and attaining overall well-being. Working on self-acceptance is well worth your time, and we share a do ..read more

Scott 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. [00:00:00] Scott Tusa: Welcome to our equanimity meditation. We’re going to take about 10 minutes to do a brief practice on working with three kinds of relationships in our life. There’s many ways to practice equanimity in Buddhism; this is one tradition within Mahayana Buddhism where we work with three different kinds of relationships. One is a close relationship, someone we like ..read more

After 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 the biggest ethical dilemmas facing the world today, the v ..read more