Jay Michaelson Podcast

Four reasons it's helpful to admit the obvious. This talk is from Ten Percent Happier's Coronavirus Sanity Talks.

Fear is a powerful teacher -- but it is a teacher nonetheless. Here are four ways to learn from it. This talk is from Ten Percent Happier's Coronavirus Sanity Talks.

How to adjust your meditation practice to focus on calm or insight -- whichever is most useful in the moment. This talk is from Ten Percent Happier's Coronavirus Sanity Talks.

Jay Michaelson guests on the Unorthodox Podcast with Liel Leibovitz, discussing the nexus of spirituality and politics.

What does meditation practice look like when the brain can be modified to emulate profound states and stages of enlightenment? Dr. Jay Michaelson, author of Evolving Dharma: Meditation, Buddhism, and the Next Generation of Enlightenment, surveys the secularization of Buddhist teachings and speculates as to where it may be headed in the next hundred years.

Ten Percent Happier teacher Jay Michaelson leads a three-minute meditation for grumpy, cynical people who want to feel happy without feeling stupid.

Jay joins comedian Myq Kaplan for a wide-ranging chat about heresy, neurosis, and lots of other things.

In this report from 2015, Jay Michaelson discusses how prosecutors drive mass incarceration by pursuing a "tough on crime" approach in order to win elections.