A Skeptic's Path to Enlightenment
Latest Episodes
Compassionate Speech with Dr. Suzanne Wertheim
Dr. Suzanne Wertheim is the author of The Inclusive Language Field Guide. An academic for many years, she now specializes in analyzing and addressing bias at work, helping companies like Google and Reddit promote speech that's more inclusive and more
Meditation on Stabilizing the Mind and Watching Thoughts
A complete guided meditation session expanding your compassion, stabilizing concentration on the breath, and observing your thoughts.Episode 3: Guided Meditation: Stabilizing the Mind and Watching ThoughtsFour years ago, we created A Skeptic’s Path to Enl
What Is Meditation? [updated rebroadcast]
Over the past few years meditation has become popular as a way to help reduce stress, be focused at work, sleep better, or simply relax. Yet meditation isnt just a tool to improve focus or relax, but a way to strengthen the positive qualities we all natu
Equanimity Meditation with Scott Tusa
Scott Tusa leads an equanimity meditationbased on the Mahayana Buddhist traditionthat works with three kinds of relationships in our life. The purpose is to cultivate compassion, loving-kindness, and understanding.Episode 149: Equanimity Meditation with
What Is the Right Thing to Do? with Scott Tusa
After ordination by His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Scott Tusa spent nine years as a Tibetan Buddhist monk. Today, he's an irreverent meditation teacher and a brand-new father. In this episode, Scott and I talk about some hard decisions we've faced
10-Minute Meditation to Calm the Mind
Even a short 10-minute meditation has the power to calm your body and mind. Heres a helpful guided meditation that in just 10 minutes a day can improve your well-being. Even though it's short, this is a complete meditation session including establis
What Is a Skeptic's Path to Enlightenment? [our first episode re-recorded and re-released!]
Four years ago, we created A Skeptics Path to Enlightenment to share the rich tradition of Tibetan Buddhist analytical meditation in a form that requires no belief beyond what science currently accepts. The first 40 episodes of the podcast gradually go t
Letting Go and Looking Forward in the New Year
Scott Snibbe shares a gentle Buddhist approach to self-forgiveness, letting go, establishing good habits, and rejoicing in all the good we've done. Move into the new year with your best intentions and best self.Episode 147: Letting Go Looking Forward
Laurie Anderson's Buddhism: Art, Meditation, and Death as Adventure [rebroadcast]
Grammy Award winning artist Laurie Anderson, a longtime student of Buddhism and meditation, shares her personal path with Buddhism, approaching art with a beginners mind, staying present with suffering without letting it overwhelm you, and making our liv
Dan Harris: Love, Skepticism, and the "Cheesy Upward Spiral" [rebroadcast]
Dan Harris, former ABC News anchor and host of the hit podcast Ten Percent Happier, talks with Scott Snibbe about love, skepticism, Buddhism, and the "cheesy upward spiral." Episode 134: Dan Harris: Love, Skepticism, and the "Cheesy Upward