How to Train a Happy Mind
| Author | Scott Snibbe, His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama (foreword) |
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| Illustrator | |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Watkins Books (UK) Penguin Random House (US) |
Publication date | March 12, 2024 |
| Pages | 248 |
How to Train A Happy Mind: A Skeptic's Path to Enlightenment is a 2024 book by Scott Snibbe. It shares a non-religious form of analytical meditation organized into an eight-step sequence based on the Tibetan Buddhist lamrim "stages of the path to enlightenment." The book features a foreword by His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama.[1][2][3]
Reception
Spirituality & Practice wrote of the book that, "Otherwise complicated practices are distilled in helpful ways... The preciousness of life, the meaning of love, and making sense of personal identity, all come into new focus in this interesting, secular, approach to Tibetan Buddhist teaching and practice. Highly recommended."[4]
The British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy's journal Therapy Today calls the book "a readable eight-step guide to the Buddhist practice of analytical meditation—an approach compared to CBT that aims to reveal your personal thinking patterns and teach you to manage their impact."[5]
Buddhist scholar Dr. Robert Thurman wrote of the book: "At last someone gives a simple and clear introduction, for regular spiritual seekers like any of us, to the most important of all meditations—beyond the healthy calm, the deeply transformative analysis to discover the reality of it all!"[1]
Science fiction author and climate activist Kim Stanley Robinson wrote of the book, "The real test of a book is whether, when you have finished, you can put it to use in your life. Scott Snibbe’s book passes this test with flying colors—it is specifically designed to convey methods that can be put to use, and it does that with a really impressive clarity."[1]
In an event at New York's Tibet House, musician and artist Laurie Anderson said, "I found this really, really a valuable book. Even though you might be familiar with all types of meditation, this one will give you a fresh way to look at each one of these steps."[6]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "How to Train a Happy Mind by Scott Snibbe: 9781786787460 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books". PenguinRandomhouse.com. Retrieved 2023-12-26.
- ↑ "Mind-Body-Spirit Titles Call for Action". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved 2025-07-30.
- ↑ "Everyday Buddhism 109 - How to Train a Happy Mind with Scott Snibbe". Everyday Buddhism. Archived from the original on 2024-07-11. Retrieved 2025-07-30.
- ↑ "How to Train a Happy Mind by Scott Snibbe, His Holiness The Dalai Lama (foreword) | Review | Spirituality & Practice". www.spiritualityandpractice.com. Retrieved 2024-03-07.
- ↑ "Guides for the Mind". Therapy Today: 14. 2024-03-01 – via British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.
- ↑ "Stories We Tell Ourselves—Laurie Anderson & Scott Snibbe at Tibet House #170". Apple Podcasts. Retrieved 2025-07-30.
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