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Sharon Salzberg, one of America’s leading spiritual teachers, has practiced Buddhist meditation for 50 years. In 1976 she cofounded the Insight Meditation Society in Barre, Massachusetts, and she has taught meditation and delivered keynotes around the world. Salzberg is the author of numerous books including the New York Times best seller Real Happiness and Real Change: Mindfulness To Heal Ourselves and the World. She has contributed to Time, O, and Yoga Journal, among others, and she hosts The Metta Hour, a podcast featuring interviews with leaders in the meditation and mindfulness movement.

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Dilip Jeste is a neuropsychiatrist who has spent more than two decades studying the components of wisdom and the aging process. He is a professor of psychiatry and neuroscience at the University of California San Diego and was formerly president of the American Psychiatric Association.

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Phakchok Rinpoche hails from a long line of great spiritual teachers and is a master in the Tibetan Buddhist tradition, holding the prestigious title of Khenpo. He teaches meditation in universities all over the world.

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Joseph LeDoux is the Henry and Lucy Moses Professor of Science at New York University. He also directs the Emotional Brain Institute at New York University and the Nathan Kline Institute. His previous books include Synaptic Self and The Emotional Brain.

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Sonja Lyubomirsky is a professor of psychology at the University of California, Riverside. She is an associate editor of the Journal of Positive Psychology and the recipient of many academic grants and prizes. These include a $1 million grant from the National Institute of Mental Health, which helped to fund some of the research upon which The How of Happiness is based.

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Chris Niebauer is a professor at Slippery Rock University in Pennsylvania. Specializing in neuropsychology, he offers classes on the differences between the left and right brain, as well as on mindfulness and consciousness. His previous books include The Neurotic’s Guide to Avoiding Enlightenment and Catching up with the Buddha.

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A Monk’s Guide to Happiness (2019) provides readers with a philosophically insightful and practically useful manual on how to break free of suffering and achieve inner peace. Drawing from the author’s 25 years of training at Buddhist monasteries and intensive meditation retreats, the book distills more than two decades of hard-won wisdom.

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Gelong Thubten is a Buddhist monk and meditation teacher from the United Kingdom. After receiving an education at Oxford University, he became an actor in London and New York. He led a party-hard lifestyle until suffering burnout at the age of 21. At this point, he joined the Kagyu Samye Ling Monastery in Scotland, where he became an ordained Tibetan Buddhist monk. Thubten has practiced and taught mindfulness meditation ever since. This path included 25 years of training, six years of attending intensive meditation retreats and 20 years of teaching mindfulness in settings as diverse as schools, hospitals, prisons, addiction counseling centers and corporate offices.

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