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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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155 | Good Intentions

PRAJNA SPARKS ·

2026/09/26

Good intentions matter. But how do we know whether our actions actually carry them?In this episode, Lama Yeshe explores the relationship between intention, action, and consequence. Another person’s response does not define what we meant, yet impact can offer valuable information about how faithfully our actions expressed our intention.Through Dharma reflection and guided meditation, we examine accountability without blame, consequences without punishment, and the relational climate we create through

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00:39:07

154 | Let Go

PRAJNA SPARKS ·

2026/08/27

Lama Yeshe explores an understanding of letting go through the image of the clenched and open hand. What happens when the object of our grasp disappears, but the clench remains? And can we learn to release without erasing, rejecting, or loving less?Through teaching and meditative inquiry, we discover that freedom does not require an empty hand, but an open one.FULL MOON SIT is an ongoing series offering Tibetan Buddhist meditation instruction and practice ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Make a dana offering⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠PRAJNA

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00:31:03

153 | Pivot

PRAJNA SPARKS ·

2026/07/29

Lama Yeshe explores how the pivot between samsara and nirvana offered in every present moment reveals where freedom has room to breathe. The episode offers a practical framework to apply off the cushion, in everyday life, for working with experience through three deceptively simple words: Things. Poisons. Virtues.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

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00:33:35

152 | Not Knowing

PRAJNA SPARKS ·

2026/06/29

Not knowing as mystery is moving, inspiring, and initiating, alive to not knowing that it knows. Join Lama Yeshe for a spacious Dharma talk, active contemplation, and guided meditation on living from the fullness of who we are.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

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00:41:39

151 | Integrity

PRAJNA SPARKS ·

2026/05/31

Integrity not as moral perfection, but as the growing coherence of a life that gathers every experience into the path without letting any fragment overrule the whole. Join Lama Yeshe for a spacious Dharma talk, active contemplation, and guided meditation on living from the fullness of who we are.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

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00:50:03

150 | Self-love

PRAJNA SPARKS ·

2026/05/01

What is “self-love”?In contemporary psychology and self-help, self-love is often framed as self-acceptance, self-worth, and meeting our emotional needs with care. These approaches can be deeply supportive—but they may also rest on a limited view of the “self” they are trying to love.In this episode of Prajna Sparks, we explore a broader, more nuanced perspective drawn from the Mahayana Buddhist tradition.Rather than asking only how to love ourselves, we begin by asking:What is this “self” we are

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00:30:13

149 | Bypass Whiplash

PRAJNA SPARKS ·

2026/04/01

Meditation for meeting our deepest emotions without bypassing or backlash guided by Lands Yeshe 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 practice of ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠listening, contemplating, and meditating

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00:34:17

148 | Miracle of Yes

PRAJNA SPARKS ·

2026/03/03

Lama Yeshe guides a practice of The Miracle of Yes, consisting of meditative inquiry and deep rest that supports nervous-system regulation, relational clarity, and a direct taste of the security and openness of infinite potentiality, shunyata, emptiness.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

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00:29:41

147 | Eros

PRAJNA SPARKS ·

2026/02/01

For Valentine’s Day, this Full Moon Sit explores Eros as the life-force coursing through experiences of body, heart, and mind. Lama Yeshe guides the practice from somatic vitality into relational warmth, flowing into creativity, sensual charge, and presence, then ending with integration, to open into uncontrived experience. 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)

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00:32:01

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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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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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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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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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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