Student Pathways

Radically Happy

East meets West in this fresh, modern take on a timeless challenge: how to find contentment and meaning in life. Learn how to manage your mind!

Teachings and Articles in the Radically Happy Pathway

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....

Radically Loving Through Spaciousness and Letting Go

Erric Solomon shows how we can connect to our natural, spacious mind to overcome anger and irritation....

Radically Loving: Creating Sparks of Love

Our true nature is unconditional love. ...
Sympathetic Joy

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

Relying on the Four Immeasurable Qualities During a Pandemic (Part 3): Immeasurable Compassion

Erric Solomon explores the third immeasurable, compassion...

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

Relying on the Four Immeasurable Qualities During a Pandemic (Part 1): Immeasurable Equanimity

Erric Solomon begins a four part explorations of the Four Immeasurables....
Phakchok Rinpoche in Radically Happy

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....

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....

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!...

Five Ways to Radically Increase Your Joy

Erric Solomon shows five ways that we can radically increase the joys of living....

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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