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Compassion is born from recognizing our shared humanity. 🌍 Comment a ❤️ if you agree!
22/06/2024

Compassion is born from recognizing our shared humanity. 🌍 Comment a ❤️ if you agree!

Remember, even the smallest actions can create a big impact. 🦟
17/06/2024

Remember, even the smallest actions can create a big impact. 🦟

Do you think all suffering comes from the mind?
13/06/2024

Do you think all suffering comes from the mind?

Big smiles at the How to Train a Happy Mind talk with Robert Thurman and Scott Snibbe at Tibet House!
12/06/2024

Big smiles at the How to Train a Happy Mind talk with Robert Thurman and Scott Snibbe at Tibet House!

Our very first podcast guest, Venerable Robina Courtin, is back in today’s timely episode on how to deal with the despai...
11/06/2024

Our very first podcast guest, Venerable Robina Courtin, is back in today’s timely episode on how to deal with the despair and hopelessness many people feel today about war, injustice, inequity, and the environment! Venerable Robina was ordained as a Buddhist nun in the late 1970s. She’s worked closely with her teachers Lama Thubten Yeshe and Lama Zopa Rinpoche, to help spread Buddhist wisdom as an Editorial Director of Wisdom Publications, Editor of Mandala Magazine, Executive Director of Liberation Prison Project, and the lively, charismatic touring teacher of Buddhism.

https://www.skepticspath.org/podcast/how-to-heal-despair-with-venerable-robina-courtin/

How do you define love? ❣️
06/06/2024

How do you define love? ❣️

05/06/2024

For anyone who's been enjoying my new book, How to Train a Happy Mind, or A Skeptic's Path to Enlightenment's podcast, community, and classes where I developed its meditations, you might be interested in a special opportunity coming up this summer. From August 8-11, I’m leading an in-person three-day retreat at California’s Vajrapani Institute. There, in the heart of the redwood forest, we’ll go through all of the analytical meditation topics from the book, one by one. I’ll give lectures and guide meditations on each topic, and we’ll also have plenty of time for questions and group discussions. In between sessions you’ll enjoy delicious vegetarian meals and walks in the forest. All the funds raised from the retreat go to support the nonprofit Vajrapani Institute. Learn more and sign up here: https://vajrapani.org/upcoming-retreats/763/how-to-train-a-happy-mind/

03/06/2024

Author of Buddhism Without Beliefs, Stephen Batchelor, shares his thoughts on Buddhism 🪷

02/06/2024

Join a community practicing the analytical meditation techniques shared in the How to Train a Happy Mind book and Skeptic's Path to Enlightenment podcast to create a happy mind, fulfilling relationships, and a better world. 😍

https://www.trainahappymind.org

Do you struggle with people pleasing? 🫣
31/05/2024

Do you struggle with people pleasing? 🫣

25/05/2024

Take a deep breath and enjoy this clip of Stephen Batchelor’s guided meditation 🤍

What happens when you live your life fearless?
24/05/2024

What happens when you live your life fearless?

23/05/2024

Thanks to everyone who came out to Tibet House US - NYC last night to for my conversation with Laurie Anderson about How to Train a Happy Mind. It was a really special event talking about the most meaningful topic with one of my life’s great heroes. If you missed it, we will release the talk as A Skeptic's Path to Enlightenment podcast episode soon. Sending gratitude to Shantideva Center and Jennifer Kim for cosponsoring the event and bringing out the FPMT dharma crowd!

Science has greater and greater mastery in understanding and controlling physical cause and effect, from planets to part...
22/05/2024

Science has greater and greater mastery in understanding and controlling physical cause and effect, from planets to particles, but we are only starting to understand cause and effect in our minds. Evolution, habits, and society all affect our behavior. How do we gain conscious control of our behavior, much less our thoughts? One method is a daily practice of self-appreciation and self-forgiveness that lets us release regret and pain to face each day with renewed presence and joy. Listen now to this week's re-recorded and remastered episode, Mental Cause and Effect!

https://www.skepticspath.org/podcast/episode-11-mental-cause-and-effect/

"I think the most important way we fight, to not add more fuel on the fire, is using mindfulness and compassion. Aggress...
16/05/2024

"I think the most important way we fight, to not add more fuel on the fire, is using mindfulness and compassion. Aggression comes when we expect the change to happen now. This is our habit. It’s important to invest into the cause 100 percent and then let go. Right now there’s a vicious cycle. If we all united, invest into the cause, and let’s allow, I think there will be less separating 'us' and 'them' and less blaming games. We invest all the energy into the cause." - Yangsi Rinpoche

If you're struggling to maintain your meditation routine, try cutting back your time on the cushion. In the beginning, i...
08/05/2024

If you're struggling to maintain your meditation routine, try cutting back your time on the cushion. In the beginning, it is more important to establish the habit—even it it's just 5 or 10 minutes a day—than forcing yourself into long meditation sessions.

Comment a 🙏 if this resonates with you!
03/05/2024

Comment a 🙏 if this resonates with you!

We cling to things as if they won’t change, but change is the nature of reality. When we embrace impermanence, we prepar...
24/04/2024

We cling to things as if they won’t change, but change is the nature of reality. When we embrace impermanence, we prepare ourselves for big changes, and are able to let go of our fear and anxiety to become more fully present to those around us, to make the most meaningful choices day-to-day, and to more deeply appreciate life’s fleeting pleasures. Learn more in this week's episode, Embracing Impermanence!
https://www.skepticspath.org/podcast/episode-9-embracing-impermanence/

23/04/2024

How do you experience impermanence? 🍂

Drop a 🙏 if you agree!
19/04/2024

Drop a 🙏 if you agree!

Isabela, our Marketing Manager, reading Scott's book, How to Train a Happy Mind! Send us a picture of yourself with your...
11/04/2024

Isabela, our Marketing Manager, reading Scott's book, How to Train a Happy Mind! Send us a picture of yourself with your copy of the book, and we'll feature you on our page 😊

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Author of Buddhism Without Beliefs, Stephen Batchelor, shares his thoughts on Buddhism 🪷

Join a community practicing the analytical meditation techniques shared in the How to Train a Happy Mind book and Skeptic's Path to Enlightenment podcast to create a happy mind, fulfilling relationships, and a better world. 😍 https://www.trainahappymind.org

Take a deep breath and enjoy this clip of Stephen Batchelor’s guided meditation 🤍

How do you experience impermanence? 🍂

The How to Train a Happy Mind audiobook by Scott Snibbe is now available for preorder and will be released on March 12! For now, enjoy this tiny preview of the first few lines of a book and preorder at audible.com or Amazon.com. https://www.skepticspath.org/how-to-train-a-happy-mind-book/ https://www.audible.com/pd/How-to-Train-a-Happy-Mind-Audiobook/B0CW23C8DK

Scott Tusa and Scott Snibbe share a Buddhist perspective of the Israeli-Palestine conflict 🙏

What are your resolutions for 2024? 🤗 https://www.skepticspath.org/podcast/letting-go-looking-forward-in-the-new-year/

Katherine MacLean, PhD addresses the question, "Does meditation matter if we have psychedelics?" Listen to the full podcast episode now! https://www.skepticspath.org/podcast/psychedelics-meditation-and-buddhism-with-dr-katherine-maclean/

Buddhism is Always Changing with David Kittay 🍂

Gender Fluidity in Buddhism with Tenzin Chogkyi

Be Angry with Sujatha Baliga

Buddhism is an Everyday Practice with Dan Harris

Family is a Buddhist Practice with Rob Hopkins

"I think it was a big mistake for the Catholic church to start translating the liturgy into languages other than Latin. Taking it out of Latin meant people are starting to think, Oh, what’s the story here? What does that word mean? Instead of letting you, the mantra, or the Latin chant, take you and free your mind into another place. It’s what music does, too. It helps you free yourself from meaning into a much more tangible world or state, in which you feel things and understand them, rather than put them into words. We are always trying to put things into words. And a lot of things cannot be put into words and words can’t be put into things. They’re two universes." Laurie Anderson

Dr. Anil Seth on the illusion of the self. #buddhism #neuroscience

Dr. Anil Seth on the illusion of the self #buddhism #neuroscience

Violence in Buddhism

Francesca Hampton on the power of giving. Francesca Hampton Author Page

Finite and Infinite
Finite and Infinite

The finite and infinite, with Robert A.F. Thurman. Hear more in this week's interview: Wisdom Is Bliss https://www.skepticspath.org/podcast/robert-thurman-wisdom-is-bliss/

The finite and infinite, with Robert A.F. Thurman. Hear more in this week's interview: Wisdom Is Bliss. https://www.skepticspath.org/podcast/robert-thurman-wisdom-is-bliss/

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