A Skeptic's Path to Enlightenment

A Skeptic's Path to Enlightenment


Latest Episodes

Compassionate Speech with Dr. Suzanne Wertheim
February 20, 2024

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
February 13, 2024

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]
February 06, 2024

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
January 30, 2024

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
January 23, 2024

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
January 16, 2024

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!]
January 09, 2024

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
January 02, 2024

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]
December 26, 2023

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]
December 19, 2023

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