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PRAJNA SPARKS

Integrating the Dharma teachings of Buddha Shakyamuni from the perspective of the Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism, by cultivating familiarity with prajna, or precise knowing, in progressively subtle degrees. Timely and accessible to contemporary seekers of any spiritual tradition, or none at all. Full episodes on new and full moon days. Contemplation interludes on the quarter moons. May all beings benefit! EMAIL sparks@prajnafire.com VISIT prajnafire.com/sparks @prajnasparks on Facebook

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146 | Ocean of Mind

PRAJNA SPARKS ·

2026/01/03

Lama Yeshe guides a meditation of immersive presence in our own consciousness incorporating elements of shamatha (tranquility) and vipashyana (insight) practice.FULL MOON SIT is an ongoing series offering Tibetan Buddhist meditation instruction and practice ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Make a dana offering⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠PRAJNA FIRE is a United States 501(c)(3) nonprofit religious organization. Your donation is tax-deductible to the extent allowed by applicable law.Learn more about meditative inquiry and the integrative dharma

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00:30:03

145 | Loving

PRAJNA SPARKS ·

2025/12/04

Lama Yeshe guides a meditation that invokes creative imagination to cultivate familiarity with our innate quality of being love within a space of active repose.FULL MOON SIT is an ongoing series offering Tibetan Buddhist meditation instruction and practice ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Make a dana offering⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠PRAJNA FIRE is a United States 501(c)(3) nonprofit religious organization. Your donation is tax-deductible to the extent allowed by applicable law.Learn more about meditative inquiry and the integrative dharma

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00:36:37

144 | Tonglen

PRAJNA SPARKS ·

2025/11/05

Lama Yeshe guides a rich and delicate practice of tonglen, or open-handed welcome. Instructions include shamatha or tranquility meditation, meditative inquiry, and an intimate tonglen practice that begins with you, your joys and aspirations, your pains and challenges. We invite you to let this practice connect you with the deepest resources of mind's true nature on a daily basis.FULL MOON SIT is an ongoing series offering Tibetan Buddhist meditation instruction and practice ⁠⁠⁠⁠Make a dana

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00:55:08

143 | Praising the Buddha LIVE

PRAJNA SPARKS ·

2025/07/24

Next Monday, July 28, 2025, is Chokor Duchen, the Great Holy Day of Turning the Wheel of Dharma, commemorating the first public teaching of the Buddha Shakyamuni, the Four Truths of Noble Beings.In a live recording from Chokor Duchen 2024, Lamas Yeshe and Zopa invite us to delve into this living practice of praise and grateful respect to the Buddha. We invite you to incorporate into your practice to start your day on Monday and all four great Holy Days of the Tibetan Buddhist calendar that celebrate

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00:42:59

142 | Dedicating Merit

PRAJNA SPARKS ·

2025/06/25

What is merit, why is dedicating it so important in Buddhist practice, and how do we dedicate to optimize our spiritual heart and path?Lamas Yeshe and Zopa invite us to explore this vital ingredient and enlivening mindset, one of three sublime principles in all Mahayana Buddhist practice.#buddhanature #Mahamudra #buddhism #buddhistmeditation #merit #dedicating meritResources for this episodeMajjhima Nikāya 29. The Greater Discourse on the Simile of the Heartwood (Bodhi

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00:40:29

141 | Trust

PRAJNA SPARKS ·

2025/05/26

What does TRUST have to do with Buddhist practice?Lamas Yeshe and Zopa invite us to explore this vital building block of wellbeing, looking deeply into how a revolution of trust in buddhanature forms a easeful way to allow its progressive actualization into our everyday life.#buddhanature #Mahamudra #buddhism #buddhistmeditationResources for this episodeMajjhima Nikāya 29. The Greater Discourse on the Simile of the Heartwood (Bodhi

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00:34:08

140 | Reorienting to Freedom

PRAJNA SPARKS ·

2025/04/27

Reorienting the mind towards freedom and embodying our true nature fully and interupptedly breeds a steadfast heart and flexible mind. In this special replay episode, Lamas Yeshe and Zopa share the vital practice of contemplating the Four Thoughts that Turn the Mind to Dharma, which reoirents the mind away from the deceptivenss of samsara and towards liberation and buddhahood. This is a replay of the first in a five-part series we aired in 2023, exploring each of the four thoughts and their

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00:47:03

139 | Conduct

PRAJNA SPARKS ·

2025/03/29

CONDUCT is both an expression of our integrity with the View of the Buddha Shakyamuni's teachings cultivated through meditation, and a potent influence on our experience, our world, and our spiritual development. In the third of three episodes on view, meditation, and conduct, Lamas Yeshe and Zopa explore what conduct is generally and in the context of this triad, as well as how the three elementsrelate dynamically to one another, and cohesively to other paradigms of the Buddha's

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00:26:18

138 | Meditation

PRAJNA SPARKS ·

2025/02/28

MEDITATION instills the View of the Buddha Shakyamuni's broad and deep understanding of the nature of things into our experience. And it is far, far more than you think it is.Lamas Yeshe and Zopa explore what meditation is, how it helps us bring view, balance, and wellbeing into our experience, and segue into everyday integration of the Buddha's teachings through the third point of this triad, Conduct.Make a dana offeringPRAJNA FIRE is a United States 501(c)(3) nonprofit religious

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00:37:33

137 | View

PRAJNA SPARKS ·

2025/01/29

VIEW takes primary place in the Buddha Shakyamuni's path of spiritual practice. It encompasses the perspective, the belief systems, the worldview that knows who things are as we find them, and leads onward to liberation from samsara and buddhahood, the perfect and complete embodiment of our mind's true nature.Lamas Yeshe and Zopa explore what view is, how it helps us navigate our lives with skill and grace, and lay the groundwork for exploring two important related elements, Meditation and

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00:42:19

136 | Promise

PRAJNA SPARKS ·

2024/12/30

PROMISE can be a loaded term, and yet it simultaneously proffers inspiration, fulfillment, and priceless opportunity. Lamas Yeshe and Zopa explore how we can recruit the power of promise to fuel our longing to thrive in the best possible way, by fulfilling our true nature as buddhas. RELATED: Read⁠ When Bodhisattvas Break,⁠ Lama Yeshe's article on inspiration from the mighty bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara https://bit.ly/BodhisattvasBreak Or watch Lama Zopa's live video comments from our weekly sangha

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00:53:29

REPLAY | Listen Contemplate Meditate

PRAJNA SPARKS ·

2024/12/01

This month we replay Listen Contemplate Meditate, our first and still most popular episode, because we know from experience that we can never hear enough about the integrative dharma practice built on these three components.More resources for the practice available at ⁠www.prajnafire.com⁠⁠/media Lama Yeshe teaches about listening, contemplation, and meditation, the foundations of integrative practice; and you learn why the podcast is called Prajna Sparks. Tania Israel joins in for contemplation

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00:10:06

MOMENT | Bardo

PRAJNA SPARKS ·

2024/11/15

BARDO refers to intervals, thresholds, or interludes between important things, during which time, transition feels momentous, and opportunities for practice abound...SPARKS MOMENTS are brief dharma reflections on things of the day, including a guided meditation practice to encounter your experience of the topic directly For more on post-election responses: Read When Bodhisattvas Break, Lama Yeshe's article on inspiration from the mighty bodhisattva

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135 | Unity

PRAJNA SPARKS ·

2024/11/01

The Two Truths in Unity is more than abstract Buddhist philosophy with no impact on our lives and hearts. In this episode, Lamas Yeshe & Zopa present an integrated approach to engaging listening, contemplating, and meditating on the Two Truths of apparent and genuine reality in Unity. They provide a few examples of realtime ways to engage that Unity so that it impacts our lives here and now. Their discussion is interspersed with resting meditaiton and meditative inquiry. PRAJNA SPARKS follows

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134 | Genuine Reality, Reasoning Style

PRAJNA SPARKS ·

2024/10/02

Lamas Yeshe & Zopa present Genuine Reality from the stance of reasoning, on its own, as a counterpart to our previous episode.Hear what "genuine reality" means in the Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. Learn how to employ our powers of reasoning to connect with what is real based on our own inward experience. PRAJNA SPARKS follows the lunar calendar. Look for new episodes on the new moons. Tibetan singing bowl interludes by Shivnee Ratna RESOURCES ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Meet Lama Yeshe &

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00:20:45

133 | Genuine Reality, Meditation Style

PRAJNA SPARKS ·

2024/09/03

In a new twist, Lamas Yeshe & Zopa present Genuine Reality from the stance of contemplation and meditation first. Hear how song and your own experience provide us with the raw material for exploring genuine reality, here and now. Contemplation through song and follow a guided meditation to connect with what is true based on our own joy and inward experience. HERE ARE THE LYRICS TO OUR SINGING CONTEMPLATION, "FRIENDS"--JOIN US IN BELTING IT OUT! FRIENDS: A Song of Those who are Full

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00:44:08

132 | Apparent Reality

PRAJNA SPARKS ·

2024/08/04

Beginning an exploration of how mind impacts our experience, Lamas Yeshe & Zopa describe how the Buddha's teachings describing apparent reality, one of two truths our mind's experience, and how an accurate understanding of it can facilitate a spacious opening of curiosity and presence in our lives.Contemplate quotes about apparent reality and follow a guided meditation to connect with the interdependence of each and every moment of our inward experience. For text of quotes used in the

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00:42:14

131 | Beyond Meditation

PRAJNA SPARKS ·

2024/07/05

Rounding off this series on the Four Yogas of Mahamudra, Lamas Yeshe & Zopa describe how the Mahamudra attainments of one-pointedness, nonconceptuality, one taste, and nonmeditation can inform and guide our shamatha meditation practice here and now, whatever our level of experience.View our latest newsletter at https://prajnafire.substack.com/p/embodying-mind?r=1i7u42 Mahamudra, the signature practice of the Kagyu lineage, is known for its spare, direct, and swift approach. Yet this clarity

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00:34:35

130 | One-Pointedness

PRAJNA SPARKS ·

2024/06/06

Exploring the mind in Mahamudra practice brings us increased intimacy with its qualities as we practice, experience, and realize the Four Yogas of Mahamudra.Lamas Yeshe & Zopa describe the Yoga of One-Pointedness, the practice, meditative experience, and realization of wholness, unity, complementarity of all things in emptiness. Contemplate a passage about One-Pointedness and follow a guided meditation to connect with the essence of all experience, inseparable from experience and

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00:37:45

129 | Nonmeditation

PRAJNA SPARKS ·

2024/05/08

Exploring the mind in Mahamudra practice brings us increased intimacy with its qualities as we practice, experience, and realize the Four Yogas of Mahamudra.Lamas Yeshe & Zopa describe the Yoga of Nonmeditation, the practice, meditative experience, and realization of wholness, unity, complementarity of all things in emptiness. Contemplate quotes about Nonmeditation and follow a guided meditation to connect with the essence of all experience, inseparable from experience and experiencer. PRAJNA

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