Unlocking True Happiness Podcast

We are living in a nation that is deeply fragmented along lines of political affiliation and ideology, race, class, religion, immigration...

Deborah Eden Tull speaks to Tenzin Chogkyi in this deep and heartfelt conversation after losing her home, and almost losing her life, in...

with special guest Deborah Eden Tull Back by popular demand, Deborah Eden Tull joins Tenzin for a timely conversation about how to hold...

with special guest Nina Simons In this episode, Tenzin speaks to Nina Simons, co-founder of Bioneers and author of Nature, Culture and...

In this episode, Tenzin explores the many gifts that gratitude can bring to our lives, helping to offset our natural negativity bias and...

with Dr. Joey Weber Mindfulness meditation has become wildly popular in the last decade or two, and is taught in places as diverse as...

Darkness is deeply misunderstood in today’s world; yet it offers powerful medicine, serenity, strength, healing, and regeneration. All...

The concept of Right Speech (or "Skillful Speech") is core to many Buddhist teachings about how to live an ethical life and avoid causing...

We’re raised to believe that our perceptions of the world around us has an objective quality, but both Buddhism and modern neuroscience...

In this episode, Ven Tenzin explores the Eight Worldly Concerns, a set of four dyads that correspond to many of the deeply held hopes and...

Capitalist consumer culture puts a huge emphasis on finding happiness in the external world. But, this hedonic happiness is shown, both...

In popular culture, courage is often portrayed as loud and showy, and patience as passive and inactive. Yet, in Buddhist philosophy,...

Patience, or forbearance, is taught as one of the six perfections, the six main practices of a bodhisattva (a being who is dedicated to...

Mindfulness practice has become increasingly popular in recent years, and is being taught not only to Buddhist practitioners in...

Many of us are drawn to the practices of compassion and loving-kindness, but we still struggle with forgiveness of those who have hurt...

Awe is that sense of wonder felt in the presence of something vast that transcends one’s understanding of the world. People commonly...

The Buddha famously taught the doctrine of selflessness. But what does this mean? Doesn’t modern psychology urge us to have a healthy...

Social connection is one of the most fundamental sources of happiness for us, but psychologists report that we are in the middle of an...

and How it Makes Us Happier In almost every discipline from biology to economics to sociology, we are taught that the world is set up as...

Exploring Shame, Contempt and Disgust through a Contemplative Lens with Dr. Eve Ekman. Most of us would do almost anything to avoid...