How to Live a Good Life

We have more comfort than any generation before us — and less idea what to do with it. In this episode, Tulku Lobsang Rinpoche talks about what actually makes a life good.

In conversation with Louise Morelli, he explains why we fear change, why wanting to be special has become the illness of our time, and why so many of us keep putting happiness off until things finally calm down, but they never do.

Rinpoche also speaks about two kinds of knowledge. One comes with learning: culture, education, religion. The other needs no learning at all: love, anger, death. In the West we have plenty of the first — and give almost no value to the second.

His advice is surprisingly practical: start with the body, not with the mind. Ten minutes of movement. Ten minutes of sitting with a straight spine and relaxed shoulders. And two sentences to begin the day: I will give my best. Whatever comes, I will accept it.

Old wisdom for a fast world. On change, simplicity, and being here now.