How to Train a Happy Mind

How Compassion Helps Us Through High-Stress Situations—Stephen Butler #229

What does compassion look like when we’re facing intense stress, trauma, or pressure? In this episode, we talk with Stephen Butler, Executive Director of the Compassion I

Guided Meditation on Love #26 [rebroadcast]

A guided meditation on love, or loving-kindness, the expansive form of love, wishing happiness not only to friends and family but to all beings everywhere, including our

What is Love? #25 [rebroadcast]

Love is complex in our culture, tied up with finding a single person to satisfy our huge list of needs and dreams, whom we then grant the exclusive gift of our affection.

Healthy Masculinity: A Meditation on Sex, Strength, and Love #228

A guided meditation led by Scott Snibbe on healthy masculinity, exploring sexuality, strength, compassion, self-acceptance, and emotional connection to help men feel more

Sex, Strength, and Love: Karen Brody on Modern Masculinity #227

Karen Brody has a unique perspective on modern masculinity, intimacy, and sexuality. She explores why men and women can misunderstand each other, how sexual confidence di

Guided Meditation: Transforming Bias with Equanimity #23 [rebroadcast]

The Buddhist meditation on equanimity teaches a technique to eliminate bias and expand our love and concern from family and friends to strangers and even enemies. It tame

Spiritual Democracy #22 [rebroadcast]

In everyday life, we’re torn between fierce attachment to our loved ones and anger at those that give us trouble. But Buddhism, democracy, and social justice tell us that

Meditation to Cultivate Hope for the Future | Geshe Legtsok #226

When uncertainty and bad news pull the mind toward pessimism, how can we cultivate genuine hope without ignoring reality? In this guided meditation, Geshe Legtsok leads

Is This Actually the Best Time to Be Alive? — Geshe Legtsok #225

What if we've been looking at the modern world all wrong? Despite the headlines, extreme poverty has plummeted, knowledge is more accessible than ever, and ancient

The Determination to Be Free - Guided Meditation on Renunciation #18 [rebroadcast]

Dostoevsky is often credited with saying, “The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison.” The practice of renunciation

The Red Pill of Renunciation: Embracing Reality as It Is #17 [rebroadcast]

What do The Matrix and Jerry Seinfeld have in common with Buddhist wisdom? In this episode, Scott explores the practice of renunciation—not giving up life's pleasure

Remembering Robert Thurman: Psychonaut, Scholar, and Friend #224

Following the passing of Robert Thurman, we wanted to revisit one of our favorite conversations with the beloved scholar, teacher, and pioneer who helped bring Tibetan Bu

Our Best Possible Future—Kim Stanley Robinson #223

So many of us get lost in terror about humanity’s future, but how often do we ask, “What’s our best possible future?” Bestselling author and climate activist Kim Stanley

Letting Go of Suffering - a Guided Meditation #16 [rebroadcast]

This is a clear-eyed meditation on suffering: both what suffering is, and the mental source of suffering in our delusions of attachment, anger, and self-centered ignoranc

Am I More Important Than Everyone Else in the Universe #15 [rebroadcast]

Do we each secretly believe we matter just a little more than everyone else? That my happiness, my ambitions, my relationships carry greater weight?  From a Buddhist per

You Are Enough Meditation with Lodro Rinzler #222

In this guided meditation, Lodro Rinzler leads you through a gentle practice of mindfulness, emotional awareness, and reconnecting with your basic goodness. Beginning wit

You Are Good, You Are Enough with Lodro Rinzler #221

What if that voice telling you you’re broken or fundamentally flawed is wrong? That’s the radical message of today’s guest, Buddhist teacher and best-selling author Lodro

Guided Meditation: Alone Together #13 [rebroadcast]

The essence of meditation is getting to know yourself alone, without social stimulus, entertainment, or reputation—what we truly are deep inside ourselves. There, we can

What Do You Do When You're Alone? #14 [rebroadcast]

What do you do when you’re alone? When you’re scared, anxious, lonely, or afraid, when you feel strong craving? What do you turn to?  In this episode, we look at where o

Preciousness of Human Life Form: A Guided Meditation with Robert Thurman #220

This guided meditation by Tibetan teacher Dr. Robert Thurman invites you to explore one of the most profound ideas in contemplative practice: the rarity and potential of