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How to Train a Happy Mind

How to Train a Happy Mind

Written by: Scott Snibbe
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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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Episodes
  • Guided Meditation: The Preciousness of Life #5 [rebroadcast]

    Guided Meditation: The Preciousness of Life #5 [rebroadcast]
    Jan 20 2026

    A guided meditation on the preciousness of our next 24 hours alive and our unique place in the universe as science understands it: intelligent, self-aware beings at the end of 14 billion years’ cosmic and biological evolution.

    Episode 5: Guided Meditation on The Preciousness of Life

    Themes:

    • Self-awareness
    • Gratitude
    • Stabilizing the breath
    • How to be happy
    • Loving others

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    If you’d like to practice with others and bring these ideas into your life, join our weekly meditation community with Scott.
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    16 mins
  • The Preciousness of Life, From Cosmos to the Kardashians #4 [rebroadcast]

    The Preciousness of Life, From Cosmos to the Kardashians #4 [rebroadcast]
    Jan 13 2026

    “It is not more surprising to be born twice than once,” Voltaire once said.

    In this episode we contemplate the miracle of existing at all, from our place at the end of our universe’s 14 billion years’ evolution to the simple joy of another 24 hours alive that Thich Nhat Hanh describes.

    Episode 4: The Preciousness of Life from Cosmos to the Kardashians

    In this talk Scott explores:

    • How to appreciate life more
    • Why money can't buy you happiness
    • How to find satisfaction and meaning in your life
    • How to stop worrying
    • Why meditation is so powerful
    • How to become self-aware

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    If you’d like to practice with others and bring these ideas into your life, join our weekly meditation community with Scott.
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    19 mins
  • Guided Death and Rebirth Meditation with Laurie Anderson #107 [rebroadcast]

    Guided Death and Rebirth Meditation with Laurie Anderson #107 [rebroadcast]
    Jan 6 2026

    Laurie Anderson leads a meditation on death and rebirth, guiding you through the Buddhist understanding of death, the bardo, and a joyous rebirth. These tracks come from Songs from the Bardo, an album inspired by the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Meditating on death is a powerful Buddhist practice that enhances gratitude, helps you embrace impermanence, and increases mindfulness.

    Laurie Anderson is one of our greatest living artists. Her work includes spoken word and performance, top-charting albums and music videos, digital art, film, virtual reality, and the invention of ingenious instruments like the tape bow violin and the talking stick. She’s won the Grammy Award and many other honors, and is currently the subject of a fantastic solo show at the Hirschhorn Museum in Washington, D.C.

    Episode 107: Guided Death and Rebirth Meditation with Laurie Anderson

    If you’d like to practice with others and bring these ideas into your life, join our weekly meditation community with Scott.
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    22 mins
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