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Buddha’s Radical Two-Step Approach to Happiness

By taking a moment to look at our minds themselves, we come closer to discovering the nature of everything....
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Radically Loving Through Spaciousness and Letting Go

Erric Solomon shows how we can connect to our natural, spacious mind to overcome anger and irritation....
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Radically Loving: Creating Sparks of Love

Our true nature is unconditional love....
Sympathetic Joy
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Relying on the Four Immeasurable Qualities During a Pandemic (Part 4): Immeasurable Sympathetic Joy

Erric Solomon discusses the final of the Four Immeasurables: Sympathetic Joy....
Immeasurable Compassion
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Relying on the Four Immeasurable Qualities During a Pandemic (Part 3): Immeasurable Compassion

Erric Solomon explores the third immeasurable, compassion...
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Relying on the Four Immeasurable Qualities During a Pandemic (Part 2): Immeasurable Loving-Kindness

Loving-Kindness or Metta is a deep, heart-felt wish that all beings have happiness, and have all the causes of happiness....
Equanimity in Turbulent Times
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Relying on the Four Immeasurable Qualities During a Pandemic (Part 1): Immeasurable Equanimity

Erric Solomon begins a four part explorations of the Four Immeasurables....
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What Can We Do If We Really Start to Freak Out? (Part 2 – Creating Space with Phakchok Rinpoche)

Phakchok Rinpoche teaches how to create space to feel more calm and lose fear, as well as slow down the loop of negative thoughts....
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What Can We Do If We Really Start To Freak Out? (Part 1 – Relying on the Love of the Buddhas)

Guru Padmasambhava as the guru we can all call out and supplicate in times of freaking out....
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Four Radically Happy Ways to Not Just Survive, but Thrive During the Holiday Family Gatherings

Holiday visiting season got you down? Learn some essential mind-training tools for making those visits bearable!...
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Five Ways to Radically Increase Your Joy

Erric Solomon shows five ways that we can radically increase the joys of living....
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The Dignity of Present-Moment Awareness

By Erric Solomon In 1952, Norman Vincent Peale’s prototypical self-help book, The Power of Positive Thinking, was unleashed upon the American public. This massively popular…

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Inside the Radically Happy book

In this video, Phakchok Rinpoche and I describe how our new book can positively impact your life. Transform you mind and change the world!

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Listen Here: Radically Happy Audiobook

Phakchok Rinpoche and Erric Solomon have collaborated on Radically Happy: A User’s Guide to the Mind. Many people have questions–what does the book discuss? What...
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Why Did We Write Radically Happy?

A couple of months ago I blogged about how I met Rinpoche. We left off with my wife and I riding off into the sunset,…

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What is Radically Happy?

What Radically Happy is in less than 90 seconds! Order your copy of Radically Happy via Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Indiebound or wherever good books are sold. Phakchok…

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How to Keep Juggling No Matter What

In the midst of a total emotional breakdown, I got a phone call from one of my meditation teachers. It was 5 a.m. my time,...
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How to Thrive in the Midst of a Hectic Day? The Magic of Many Practices

It’s clear that to learn to cope, grow and thrive, we need a few different strategies, which means we need to combine a variety of...
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Radically for Happiness

If we look honestly at our lives, we can see that one our major preoccupation is acquiring the things and attempting to create the circumstances…

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Who’s the White Guy? (part 1)

About eighteen months ago, Rinpoche and I were giving a Radically Happy talk in San Francisco. Joshua, Rinpoche’s talented and capable assistant, worked with our…

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Radically Happy: Introduction

My phone was buzzing. So, I picked it up and saw it was Phakchok Rinpoche leaving me WeChats. For most of the last year he…

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Radically Happy: Everyone Can Do It!

Not everyone wants to become a Buddhist--but doesn’t everyone want to be able to flourish and enjoy what life has to offer? Every human being...