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00:17:00

Is your view of life realistic?

Kadampa Buddhism ·

2026/01/12

Why does life so often feel unfulfilling, despite our best efforts? In this podcast, Gen Devi explores the Buddhist perspective on dissatisfaction, as taught by the Buddha in his explanation of the Four Noble Truths. These teachings describe the truth of suffering, its origin, its cessation, and the path that leads to that cessation. Through this lens, we discover the subtle mental distortions and…Source

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00:20:08

How to get the most out of your relationships

Kadampa Buddhism ·

2026/01/05

Why do we seek relationships, and how can we find fulfilment in them? This teaching extract explores our universal search for lasting happiness. Kadam Morten reveals that when we understand that the true source of happiness is inner peace, we discover that our connections with others are not obstacles, but essential opportunities for training the mind and developing the virtuous qualities that…Source

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00:20:49

How love protects at Christmas time

Kadampa Buddhism ·

2025/12/08

In this episode Gen Tubchen shows how holding a mind of love can free us from so many unhappy minds such as loneliness, resentment, jealousy, grief and anger. Around Christmas time these minds can arise quite strongly so we need the mind of love to protect us from them. As a Christmas present this episode includes a short guided meditaion. Based on How to Transform Your Life by Geshe Kelsang…Source

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00:15:51

Bringing happiness with our speech

Kadampa Buddhism ·

2025/11/24

Learn the art of adapting your communication to build harmony. This teaching with Gen Demo focuses on the importance of respecting others’ values, beliefs, and personal temperaments. Through engaging stories, it highlights how flexibility of mind and behaviour can make your communication truly effective and enable us to make others happy through our speech. Book reference How to Transform Your…Source

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00:15:28

Why our spiritual growth stalls

Kadampa Buddhism ·

2025/11/17

This extract explores some of the reasons why our spiritual practice does not progress in the way we want it to. Gen Rabten discusses the reasons we resist change and the barriers in our mind that prevent us from truly absorbing transformative teachings. Book reference How to Transform Your Life by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso…Source

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00:19:29

Turning Fear of Aging Into Wisdom

Kadampa Buddhism ·

2025/11/10

Our culture denies the reality of aging and death, causing us to fear them. This excerpt offers a refreshing perspective, encouraging us to look directly at these inevitable sufferings. Learn how to transform this fear into a powerful “wisdom fear” – a joyful, positive motivation to break free from the cycle of pain. Based on the book How to Transform Your Life by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso…Source

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00:20:34

A wisdom solution for loneliness and grief

Kadampa Buddhism ·

2025/10/27

Discover one of the main sources of our pain: desirous attachment. This teaching explains how this sneaky mental habit masquerades as a path to happiness, but is in reality deceiving us. Attachment exaggerates the good qualities of someone and erases the bad thereby creating a person who seems to be the key to our happiness but is not! Gen Gomlam explains how to distinguish between attachment and…Source

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00:13:51

Learning Resilience

Kadampa Buddhism ·

2025/10/20

From a Buddhist perspective, the first step toward true resilience is accepting that hardship, stress, and change are a natural part of being human. Rather than fighting reality or clinging to the idea of “getting back to normal,” resilience invites us to meet life as it is — knowing that we will be changed by our experiences, and that’s okay. What we need is to allow challenges to change us for…Source

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00:22:48

Transform difficulties into spiritual fuel

Kadampa Buddhism ·

2025/10/07

This teaching presents the Kadampa view that suffering has good qualities and is inevitable in impure life. Through Dorje Shugden’s blessings, practitioners learn to courageously accept suffering and transform difficulties into spiritual fuel, developing renunciation, compassion, and wisdom rather than rejecting life’s challenges.Source

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00:07:37

The Practice of Relying Upon Dorje Shugden

Kadampa Buddhism ·

2025/10/06

This teaching explores the practice of relying upon Dorje Shugden as a Dharma protector. It emphasizes using instructions as a “mirror of Dharma” to examine one’s mind and understanding that protecting inner spiritual realizations—compassion, bodhichitta, and wisdom—matters most, not outer conditions. Source

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00:18:39

Understanding true love

Kadampa Buddhism ·

2025/09/29

What is true affectionate love? In this extract, Gen-la Khyenrab introduces the beautiful mind of affectionate love, using the analogy of a mother’s delight in her child to illustrate this warm, open-hearted feeling. Discover the main reason we struggle to feel this for everyone and learn the profound yet simple training to change it. Based on the book, Joyful Path of Good Fortune by Geshe Kelsang…Source

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00:24:16

The power of aspiration

Kadampa Buddhism ·

2025/09/22

What do you truly wish for? Discover how ‘aspiration’, the powerful mental factor of wishing, directs your energy and determines your success in life. This teaching explores how to cultivate meaningful aspirations that align with your deepest potential for happiness, moving beyond worldly goals towards lasting inner transformation. This teaching extract is based on the book How to Understand the…Source

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00:13:47

Going against the self-cherishing mind

Kadampa Buddhism ·

2025/08/05

In this extract we learn a simple, practical method for going against our self-cherishing mind – just make others happy!Source

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00:18:32

Have no hatred for enemies and no attachment for friends

Kadampa Buddhism ·

2025/08/04

In this clip Gen-la Dekyong explains the uncommon meaning of this verse from Atisha’s Advice to help us find the inner peace of patience every day… Source

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00:15:27

How to control our desires

Kadampa Buddhism ·

2025/07/30

If we have strong uncontrolled desire we will never find happiness because we can never satisfy our desires. If instead we practice contentment and control our desires we will always be happy.Source

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00:12:38

Seeing spiritual lessons in daily life

Kadampa Buddhism ·

2025/07/29

One of the special qualities of Kadampa teachings is that they show us how to transform daily appearances into spiritual lessons, so that even a normal busy day can help us make progress on the spiritual path. Source

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00:12:15

The real opportunity of our life

Kadampa Buddhism ·

2025/07/28

Only as human beings do we have the opportunity to free ourselves from the darkness of ignorance and attain enlightenment this is a wonderful opportunity. Source

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00:14:07

The happiness that comes from dedication

Kadampa Buddhism ·

2025/07/27

In this clip Gen-la Jampa encourages us to always remember to dedicate, explaining how to dedicate and the great results this will bring. Source

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00:16:14

Escaping the prison of your own mind

Kadampa Buddhism ·

2025/07/21

We live in a “luxurious prison”—comfortable but deceptive. If we don’t recognize our distorted mental constructs, we stay trapped. But by training the mind through spiritual paths and developing renunciation, we can escape suffering and help others do the same. Gen Devi explains Samsara based on the book How to Transform Your Life by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso… Source

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00:22:00

Freedom from the pain and fear of loss

Kadampa Buddhism ·

2025/07/07

In this moving episode, Gen Gomlam explores the deep emotional pain that arises from our attachments to others. Whether through loss or the fear of losing someone, attachment often becomes a source of ongoing suffering that robs us of inner peace. Gen Gomlam gently challenges us to look beyond the surface of grief and recognize that it is not loss itself, but our attachment, that causes us pain. Source

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