A Skeptic's Path to Enlightenment

By Scott Snibbe

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A Skeptic’s Path to Enlightenment brings the inner science of Buddhist philosophy and meditation to twenty-first century people hungry for happy, meaningful lives. In our weekly podcast, we share talks, guided meditations, and interviews exploring happiness, love, compassion, relationships, family, politics, technology, and work. Skeptic’s Path explores powerful "analytical meditation" techniques that use imagination, emotions, and critical inquiry to probe our inner and outer realities and expand our compassion based on the Tibetan Buddhist tradition. We expand on the popular mindfulness approach to meditation to help us better understand our minds from the inside out, building healthy mental habits that are the true causes of happiness.

Episode Date
Embracing Impermanence [updated rebroadcast]
Apr 23, 2024
Meditation on Embracing Life with Stephen Batchelor
Apr 16, 2024
Buddhism Without Beliefs with Stephen Batchelor
Apr 09, 2024
Book Passage Talk with Derek Fagerstrom
Apr 02, 2024
Precious Life Meditation
Mar 26, 2024
The Precious Life—Chapter Reading from How to Train a Happy Mind
Mar 19, 2024
How to Train a Happy Mind book launch conversation with Scott Snibbe and Vicki Mackenzi
Mar 12, 2024
Meditation on Feeling Good with Meenadchi
Mar 05, 2024
Decolonizing Nonviolent Communication with Meenadchi
Feb 27, 2024
Compassionate Speech with Dr. Suzanne Wertheim
Feb 20, 2024
Meditation on Stabilizing the Mind and Watching Thoughts
Feb 13, 2024
What Is Meditation? [updated rebroadcast]
Feb 06, 2024
Equanimity Meditation with Scott Tusa
Jan 30, 2024
What Is the Right Thing to Do? with Scott Tusa
Jan 23, 2024
10-Minute Meditation to Calm the Mind
Jan 16, 2024
What Is a Skeptic's Path to Enlightenment? [our first episode re-recorded and re-released!]
Jan 09, 2024
Letting Go and Looking Forward in the New Year
Jan 02, 2024
Laurie Anderson's Buddhism: Art, Meditation, and Death as Adventure [rebroadcast]
Dec 26, 2023
Dan Harris: Love, Skepticism, and the "Cheesy Upward Spiral" [rebroadcast]
Dec 19, 2023
RAFT Meditation with Dr. Katherine MacLean
Dec 12, 2023
Psychedelics, Meditation, and Buddhism with Dr. Katherine MacLean
Dec 05, 2023
Mindful Awareness Meditation with Michael Sapiro
Nov 28, 2023
Psychedelic Psychotherapy with Michael Sapiro
Nov 21, 2023
War Meditation
Nov 14, 2023
Four Foundations of Mindfulness with Dr. David Kittay — A Guided Meditation
Nov 07, 2023
AI, Compassion, and Enlightenment with Dr. David Kittay
Oct 31, 2023
The Natural Goodness of our Mind: Guided Meditation with Ven. Sangye Khadro (Kathleen McDonald)
Oct 24, 2023
Are We Fundamentally Good? with Dr. Jan Willis
Oct 17, 2023
Guided Meditation on Pleasure
Oct 10, 2023
Pleasure and Buddhism: Food, Sex, and Netflix on the Path to Enlightenment
Oct 03, 2023
Guided Meditation on Compassion with Tenzin Chogkyi
Sep 26, 2023
Patriarchy, Gender, and Sexism in Buddhism with Tenzin Chogkyi
Sep 19, 2023
Compassionate AI with Kristian Simsarian [rebroadcast]
Sep 12, 2023
Loving Our Parents, Loving Our Children [rebroadcast]
Sep 05, 2023
Guided Meditation on Healing Trauma with sujatha baliga
Aug 29, 2023
sujatha baliga on Healing Trauma and Restorative Justice
Aug 22, 2023
Meditation on the Emptiness of Money [rebroadcast]
Aug 15, 2023
Bitcoin and Buddhism [rebroadcast]
Aug 08, 2023
Dan Harris Loving-Kindness Guided Meditation
Aug 01, 2023
Dan Harris: Love, Skepticism, and the "Cheesy Upward Spiral"
Jul 25, 2023
Mindfulness of the Body - A 10 Minute Guided Meditation
Jul 18, 2023
Why Mindfulness?
Jul 11, 2023
Kim Stanley Robinson on Solving the Climate Crisis, Buddhism, and the Power of Science Fiction
Jul 04, 2023
From What If to What Next — Rob Hopkins on Climate Optimism
Jun 27, 2023
What Happens When You Die?
Jun 20, 2023
Where Did I Come From?
Jun 13, 2023
Birth, Death, and Infinity
Jun 06, 2023
Meditation on Cultivating Our Inner Awareness with Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo
May 30, 2023
Women, Buddhism, and Equality with Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo
May 23, 2023
10 Minute Guided Meditation on Loving-kindness
May 16, 2023
I Want to Know What Love Is
May 09, 2023
Guided Meditation: Compassion through Looking Inside
May 02, 2023
Everyday Buddhism: Compassion, Trauma, and Self-Acceptance with Wendy Haylett
Apr 25, 2023
Meditation on Gratitude, Dedication, and Determination
Apr 18, 2023
Guided Meditation on the Stages of the Path to Enlightenment
Apr 11, 2023
Guided Meditation on Consciousness
Apr 04, 2023
Free Will, Consciousness, & Reality with Dr. Anil Seth
Mar 28, 2023
The Interdependent Self - Guided Meditation
Mar 21, 2023
Who Am I? Happiness, Selfishness, and Self-ness
Mar 14, 2023
Compassion with Ven. Sangye Khadro and Scott Snibbe
Mar 07, 2023
Kim Stanley Robinson and Robert Thurman: Climate, Politics, and the Dalai Lama
Feb 28, 2023
The Interdependent Nature of Reality
Feb 21, 2023
Guided Meditation: Exploring the Texture of the Mind
Feb 14, 2023
The Buddhist Understanding of the Mind with Emily Hsu
Feb 07, 2023
Meditation on How Things Exist
Jan 31, 2023
How Things Exist: Emptiness, Dependent Origination, and your Smartphone
Jan 24, 2023
Meditation on Equanimity for Parents and Teens
Jan 17, 2023
Parenting Teens with Buddhist Family Counselor Richard Prinz
Jan 10, 2023
Universalizing our Problems and Pleasures - Guided Meditation
Jan 03, 2023
Universalizing: Transforming Pain and Pleasure into Love and Compassion
Dec 27, 2022
Guided Meditation for Kids
Dec 19, 2022
How to Teach Children Meditation — Francesca Hampton
Dec 13, 2022
Compassion Meditation
Dec 06, 2022
What Is Compassion?
Nov 29, 2022
Pleasure - A Guided Meditation
Nov 22, 2022
Robert Thurman: Wisdom is Bliss
Nov 15, 2022
Guided Meditation on Loving-Kindness
Nov 08, 2022
What Is Love?
Nov 01, 2022
Tantric Meditation on Compassion and Wisdom with Rob Preece
Oct 25, 2022
The Psychology of Buddhist Tantra with Rob Preece
Oct 18, 2022
Transforming Bias with Equanimity -- Guided Meditation
Oct 11, 2022
Spiritual Democracy
Oct 04, 2022
Guided Meditation: Being Yourself with Susan Piver
Sep 27, 2022
Susan Piver: Understanding Our Differences with the Buddhist Enneagram
Sep 20, 2022
The Determination to Be Free - Guided Meditation on Renunciation
Sep 13, 2022
The Red Pill of Renunciation – Embracing Reality as It Is
Sep 06, 2022
Meditation on Healing Anxiety with Ven. Amy Miller
Aug 30, 2022
Transforming Anxiety, Depression, and other Difficult Emotions with Ven. Amy Miller
Aug 23, 2022
Letting Go of Suffering - a Guided Meditation
Aug 16, 2022
Am I More Important Than Everyone Else in the Universe?
Aug 09, 2022
“Cutting the Cat in Two”: A Guided Meditation for Dealing with Conflict
Aug 02, 2022
Zen and the Art of Dealing with Difficult People with Dr. Mark Westmoquette
Jul 26, 2022
Finding Refuge in the Mind - A Guided Meditation
Jul 19, 2022
What Do You Do When You're Alone?
Jul 12, 2022
Guided Meditation on Giving and Receiving Love with Buddhist Psychologist Lorne Ladner
Jul 05, 2022
Buddhist Psychologist Lorne Ladner on Depression, Compassion, and Positive Psychology
Jun 28, 2022
Meditation on Mental Cause and Effect
Jun 21, 2022
Mental Cause and Effect
Jun 14, 2022
Meditation, Science, and Christianity with Father Laurence Freeman
Jun 07, 2022
Universal Love in Christianity and Buddhism with Dr. Greg Hillis
May 31, 2022
Guided Meditation on Impermanence
May 24, 2022
Embracing Impermanence
May 17, 2022
Guided Death and Rebirth Meditation with Laurie Anderson
May 10, 2022
Laurie Anderson's Buddhism: Art, Meditation, and Death as Adventure
May 03, 2022
Ten Million Percent Happier - Interview with Scott Snibbe
Apr 26, 2022
Guided Meditation on the Mind
Apr 19, 2022
What Is the Mind?
Apr 12, 2022
Dr. Thupten Jinpa on Buddhism, Science, Compassion, and Climate
Apr 05, 2022
From What If to What Next — Rob Hopkins' Climate Optimism
Mar 22, 2022
Kim Stanley Robinson on Solving the Climate Crisis, Buddhism, and the Power of Science Fiction
Mar 15, 2022
What to Do With Your Next 24 Hours Alive (Guided Meditation)
Mar 08, 2022
The Preciousness of Life, From Cosmos to the Kardashians
Mar 01, 2022
Guided Meditation: Empathetic Joy with Ayya Dhammadipa
Feb 22, 2022
Gifts Greater Than the Oceans with Ayya Dhammadipa
Feb 15, 2022
Stabilizing the Mind and Watching Thoughts (Guided Meditation)
Feb 08, 2022
What Is Meditation?
Jan 31, 2022
Mommysattva: Meditation and Motherhood with Jenna Hollenstein
Jan 25, 2022
A Guided 10 Minute Meditation to Calm the Mind
Jan 21, 2022
What Is A Skeptic's Path to Enlightenment?
Jan 18, 2022
Guided Meditation: Turning Towards with Ben Connelly
Jan 11, 2022
Esoteric and Everyday Buddhism with Ben Connelly
Jan 04, 2022
Dr. Rick Hanson on Embracing the Positive without Denying Pain [rebroadcast]
Dec 28, 2021
Robert Thurman on Enlightenment, Time, Skepticism, and Science [rebroadcast]
Dec 21, 2021
Guided Meditation for Fear with Kiri Westby
Dec 14, 2021
Finding Fearlessness with Kiri Westby
Dec 07, 2021
Vaccines and Compassion
Nov 30, 2021
Cultivating Our Inner Awareness with Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo - 10 Minute Meditation
Nov 23, 2021
Women, Buddhism, and Equality with Jetsunma Tenzin Palmo
Nov 16, 2021
Guided Meditation | The Possibility of Enlightenment
Nov 09, 2021
What is Enlightenment with Dr. Jan Willis
Nov 02, 2021
10-Minute Mindful Awareness Meditation with Susan Piver
Oct 26, 2021
Four Noble Truths of Love with Susan Piver
Oct 19, 2021
Becoming Loving-Kindness - A Guided Meditation with Elaine Jackson
Oct 12, 2021
Buddhist Relationship Advice with Elaine Jackson
Oct 05, 2021
Guided Meditation on Pleasure
Sep 28, 2021
Pleasure and Buddhism: Food, Sex, and Netflix on the Path to Enlightenment
Sep 21, 2021
Guided Meditation on Four Levels of Happiness
Sep 14, 2021
Four Kinds of Happiness with Ven. Sangye Khadro
Sep 07, 2021
A Biologist and a Buddhist Monk on the Nature of Reality: A Conversation with Geshe Namdak and Dr. Rupert Sheldrake
Aug 31, 2021
Compassionate AI with Kristian Simsarian
Aug 24, 2021
Guided Meditation: Four Foundations of Mindfulness with Dr. David Kittay
Aug 17, 2021
Buddhism and Technology with Dr. David Kittay (Part 2)
Aug 10, 2021
Buddhism and Technology with Dr. David Kittay
Aug 03, 2021
Loving Our Parents, Loving Our Children
Jul 27, 2021
10-Minute Meditation to Relax the Mind with Dza Kilung Rinpoche
Jul 20, 2021
The Relaxed Mind with Dza Kilung Rinpoche
Jul 13, 2021
Guided Meditation: 7 Steps to Compassion with Ven. Gyalten Lekden
Jul 06, 2021
Engaged Buddhism with Ven. Gyalten Lekden
Jun 29, 2021
Guided Meditation: How Money Exists
Jun 22, 2021
Bitcoin and Buddhism
Jun 15, 2021
Just Like a Mountain 10 Minute Meditation on Accepting Change
Jun 10, 2021
Mindfulness at Work with Theo Koffler
Jun 08, 2021
10 Minute Mindful Listening Meditation
Jun 03, 2021
Theo Koffler on Mindfulness for Teens & Young Adults
Jun 01, 2021
Four Ways to Meditate at Work
May 25, 2021
Ruchika Sikri on Compassionate Corporations and Mindfulness at Google
May 18, 2021
Mindfulness and Grief
May 11, 2021
10 Minute Breath Meditation
May 04, 2021
10 Minute Body Meditation
Apr 27, 2021
Scott Tusa's Guided Meditation on Open Awareness
Apr 20, 2021
Scott Tusa on Meditation and Mindfulness in Everyday Life
Apr 13, 2021
Why Mindfulness?
Apr 06, 2021
Vicki Mackenzie on Groundbreaking Buddhist Nuns Tenzin Palmo and Freda Bedi
Mar 30, 2021
What Happens When You Die?
Mar 23, 2021
Where Did I Come From?
Mar 16, 2021
Birth, Death, and Infinity
Mar 09, 2021
Meditation on Loving-Kindness and Compassion with Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche
Mar 02, 2021
Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche on Patience, Compassion, and Art
Feb 23, 2021
Stephen Butler on Openness, Gentleness, and Mr. Rogers' Buddhism
Feb 16, 2021
10 Minute Meditation on Love
Feb 12, 2021
I Want to Know What Love Is
Feb 09, 2021
Ten Questions for Dr. Robert Thurman (Part 2)
Feb 02, 2021
Ten Questions for Dr. Robert Thurman (Part 1)
Jan 26, 2021
Dr. Rick Hanson's Five Breaths Meditation
Jan 19, 2021
Dr. Rick Hanson, Author of Neurodharma and Buddha’s Brain
Jan 12, 2021
Beginning the New Year with a Purification Meditation
Jan 05, 2021
Dr. Jay Garfield on Healthy Realities
Dec 29, 2020
Meditation on Gratitude, Dedication, and Determination
Dec 22, 2020
Secular Guided Meditation on the Buddhist Stages of the Path to Enlightenment (Lamrim)
Dec 08, 2020
Guided Meditation: The Interdependent Self
Nov 24, 2020
Who Am I?
Nov 17, 2020
Geshe Tenzin Namdak on the Mind, Disturbing Emotions, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality
Nov 04, 2020
20-Minute Meditation on the Interdependent Nature of Reality
Oct 30, 2020
The Interdependent Nature of Reality
Oct 27, 2020
Guided Meditation: How Things Exist
Oct 20, 2020
How Things Exist
Oct 13, 2020
Guided Meditation: The Natural Goodness of our Mind — Ven. Sangye Khadro (Kathleen McDonald)
Oct 06, 2020
Venerable Sangye Khadro (Kathleen McDonald) on The Natural Goodness of our Mind
Sep 29, 2020
Sympathetic Joy: Opening Your Heart to the Happiness of Others
Sep 22, 2020
Be Willing to Get Woke - Interview with Dr. Jan Willis
Sep 15, 2020
Guided Meditation: Universalizing our Problems and Pleasures
Sep 08, 2020
Universalizing: Transforming Pain and Pleasure into Love and Compassion
Sep 01, 2020
Guided Tonglen Meditation: Exchanging Yourself with Others
Aug 18, 2020
Guided Compassion Meditation
Aug 11, 2020
What Is Compassion?
Aug 04, 2020
Khen Rinpoche Geshe Tashi Tsering on Karma, Analytical Meditation, and Mindfulness
Jul 28, 2020
Guided Meditation on Love
Jul 21, 2020
What Is Love?
Jul 14, 2020
The Dalai Lama’s “Simple Meditation”
Jul 07, 2020
Guided Meditation: Transforming Bias with Equanimity
Jun 30, 2020
Spiritual Democracy
Jun 23, 2020
Interview: Venerable Robina Courtin — Buddha's Science of Mind
Jun 17, 2020
Guided Meditation: Fighting Systemic Racism through Compassionate Action #BlackLivesMatter
Jun 09, 2020
The Adventure So Far: Analytic Meditation on the Stages of the Path
Jun 02, 2020
Guided Meditation: Renunciation
May 26, 2020
The Red Pill of Renunciation - Embracing Reality as It Is
May 19, 2020
Guided Meditation: Letting Go of Suffering
May 12, 2020
Am I More Important Than Everyone Else in the Universe?
May 05, 2020
What Do You Do When You're Alone?
Apr 28, 2020
Podcast Trailer - A Skeptic's Path to Enlightenment
Apr 28, 2020
Guided Meditation: Alone Together
Apr 21, 2020
Guided Meditation: Mental Cause and Effect
Apr 14, 2020
Mental Cause and Effect
Apr 07, 2020
Guided Meditation: Embracing Impermanence
Mar 31, 2020
Embracing Impermanence
Mar 24, 2020
Guided Meditation: Combatting Coronavirus Fear With Compassion
Mar 17, 2020
Guided Meditation: What Is the Mind?
Mar 10, 2020
What Is the Mind?
Mar 03, 2020
Guided Meditation: The Preciousness of Life
Feb 25, 2020
The Preciousness of Life from Cosmos to the Kardashians
Feb 18, 2020
Guided Meditation: Stabilizing the Mind and Watching Thoughts
Feb 11, 2020
What Is Meditation?
Feb 04, 2020
What Is A Skeptic's Path to Enlightenment?
Jan 28, 2020