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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
  • Should I Meditate With My Doctor? | Shireen Mansouri #232

    Should I Meditate With My Doctor? | Shireen Mansouri #232
    Oct 13 2026

    What if your doctor could help you feel better just by being more present? Scott Snibbe talks with Dr. Shireen Mansouri, a Canadian physician and teacher with the Compassion Institute, about how meditation and compassion can transform the experience of healthcare for both doctors and patients.

    Drawing on her own experience, Shireen shares how a daily meditation practice has helped her become more present, less stressed, and more connected to her patients. She also explains how she quietly practices tonglen, a Tibetan Buddhist compassion meditation, during difficult conversations, and why compassion fatigue might actually be something else entirely.

    Together, they explore the science behind compassionate care, the role of meditation in healing, and how even a few mindful breaths can change what we say next.

    Episode 232: Should I Meditate With My Doctor?

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    39 mins
  • Compassion Meditation #29 [rebroadcast]

    Compassion Meditation #29 [rebroadcast]
    Oct 6 2026

    A 15-minute guided meditation on compassion: the wish to take away others’ suffering.

    Episode 29. Guided Compassion Meditation

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    16 mins
  • What is Compassion? #28 [rebroadcast]

    What is Compassion? #28 [rebroadcast]
    Sep 29 2026

    Compassion is starting to rival mindfulness as the next most popular up-and-coming form of secular meditation. But what is compassion? Compassion, from the Buddhist perspective, is not just empathizing with others’ suffering, but actively wishing to take it away.

    Episode 28. What Is Compassion?

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    26 mins
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