Podcast Episodes

Joyful Effort: A Guided Meditation with Tenzin Chogkyi #196

Episode 196

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. 

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Published on 2 months, 1 week ago

Beyond Bombs: A Meditation on Ending War and Cultivating Peace #195

Episode 195

Instead 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 shari…

Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago

Joy and Enthusiasm—Even When Life's Hard—with Tenzin Chogkyi #194

Episode 194

Today's guest is Tenzin Chogkyi, one of our most popular guests, and she's back to talk about another one of the six perfections that we've been talking with other guests about this year. This one is…

Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

10-Minute Path to a Happy Mind Guided Meditation #193

Episode 193

Scott 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…

Published on 2 months, 4 weeks ago

The Complete Path to a Happy Mind #192

"I'll tell you something. I've learned it's hard work to be happy." Brian Wilson

In this special retreat episode, Scott Snibbe guides us through the full path to a happy mind—from appreciating the sim…

Published on 3 months ago

5-Minute Breath Awareness Meditation with Larry Ward #191

Episode 191

Dr. Larry Ward—student of Thich Nhat Hanh and author of America's Racial Karma—leads a short but powerful breath awareness meditation.

Episode 191: 5-Minute Breath Awareness Meditation

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Published on 3 months, 1 week ago

Healing America's Racial Karma—Larry Ward #190

Episode 190

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 min…

Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago

The Interdependent Self - Guided Meditation #43 [rebroadcast]

Episode 43

Who am I? From the Buddhist perspective, there’s a systematic way of asking this question of who you are in the form of a meditation on the ultimate nature of the self, or "emptiness." This meditatio…

Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago

Who am I? #42 [rebroadcast]

Episode 42

Are you your body? Are you your mind? Are you a collection of thoughts, memories, and neural connections that could be uploaded into a computer to live forever? Or are you an old-fashioned soul? This…

Published on 4 months ago

Mindfulness Awareness Meditation with Susan Piver #189

Episode 189

Susan Piver leads a short breath awareness meditation in this week's podcast episode. If you were to go down the Buddhist path, you would start with this practice before starting with visualizations,…

Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago