Living Clarity

Making Hardship Your Spiritual Teacher

Kadampa Buddhism — Mon, 20 Jul 2026 09:26:53 +0000

Gen-la Jampa teaches how to transform unavoidable suffering into spiritual growth. He shares the story of the Indian master Atisha who regarded his rude cook as his most precious companion because he helped him develop patience, explains how acceptance purifies negative karma, and offers practical advice about starting with small annoyances to gradually build unshakable inner peace.

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How to Change Your Experiences

Kadampa Buddhism — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 09:41:30 +0000

Kadam Bridget explores how meditation and mindfulness can help us change the direction of our life by changing what karma is ripening for us. She explains why our negative thoughts are not our true nature and offers practical advice for noticing unhelpful mental habits before they carry us into more suffering. Further reading in the following book: How to Solve Our Human Problems…

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The Joy of Overcoming Distraction

Kadampa Buddhism — Mon, 06 Jul 2026 09:01:44 +0000

Kadam Morten explains how observing the mind itself helps us overcome our greatest obstacle: distraction. He reveals how an untrained mind habitually focuses on things that causes us to suffer and shows how developing concentration allows us to carry inner peace and happiness with us everywhere we go.

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Delusions Are Our Only Enemy

Kadampa Buddhism — Mon, 29 Jun 2026 20:31:20 +0000

Gen Devi explains that our real problem is never other people or outer conditions, but the distorted states of mind called delusions. She reveals the vast, pure potential hidden beneath them — like a clear sky behind clouds — and shows how these mental habits take hold, and why we can always change them. Further reading in the following book: How to Understand the Mind…

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The Real Source Of Loneliness & Pain

Kadampa Buddhism — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 16:18:01 +0000

Gen Gomlam explains that our worst mental habit — desirous attachment — is very sneaky. Unlike the pain of anger or jealousy, attachent actually feels good at first. It exaggerates people’s good qualities and hides the bad, creating an illusion of perfection that inevitably leads to pain. Further reading in the following book: How to Understand the Mind…

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Build Confidence Nothing Can Destroy

Kadampa Buddhism — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 10:33:37 +0000

Gen Demo explains how to build a self-confidence that doesn’t depend on what we achieve or what others think of us. She shows how our potential, our everyday good actions, and our power to overcome negativities creates an unbreakable confidence and frees us from discouragement. Further reading in the following books: Meaningful to Behold Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life…

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Your Whole Life Can Be Meditation

Kadampa Buddhism — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 08:50:09 +0000

Gen Chodor gives advice on overcoming a common objection to meditating: “I don’t have the time to meditate”. He explains how any activity — eating, driving, even watching Netflix — can become a meditation practice. Learn how to do regular daily activities with special states of mind that transform life into the path to happiness. Further reading in the following book: How to Understand the Mind…

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Live Like a Spiritual Traveler

Kadampa Buddhism — Mon, 01 Jun 2026 16:09:03 +0000

Gen Tara explains how our life completely transforms when we begin to see ourselves not as permanent residents of this life but as travelers passing through. She teaches how this view loosens our grip on gain and loss, redefines daily life as an opportunity to invest in ourselves spiritually, and enables us to live lightly and joyfully. Further reading in the following books: Joyful Path of…

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Why Patience Is True Strength

Kadampa Buddhism — Mon, 18 May 2026 09:26:56 +0000

Gen-la Jampa introduces patient acceptance as the genuine solution to daily problems. He challenges the modern view that patience is a weakness, revealing instead the inner strength required to refuse our well-worn mental grooves of intolerance — and the mental freedom that comes from accepting what is. Discover how changing our mind from resistance to acceptance is a revolutionary approach to…

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Wisdom that changes the world

Kadampa Buddhism — Mon, 11 May 2026 10:55:47 +0000

In this episode, Kadam Mick Marcon explores how wisdom can literally change the way we see the world — and why that matters for our everyday happiness. He shares real life stories that illustrate how due to ignorance we are deceived by appearances and how simply by turning to our meditation practice we can dispel fear and confusion.

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Why do relationships sometimes hurt?

Kadampa Buddhism — Mon, 04 May 2026 09:29:37 +0000

In this episode, Gen Kelsang Leksang explores one of life’s great mysteries — why do the people we care about most sometimes cause us the greatest pain? She begins by drawing a clear distinction between two things we often mistake for the same feeling: love and attachment. One is a source of lasting peace; the other, she explains, is like chasing a mirage. Through relatable examples she exposes…

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What are we really afraid of?

Kadampa Buddhism — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 08:07:15 +0000

In this episode, Gen Kelsang Lhachog, talks about our fears — of failure, loss, loneliness, or rejection. First she explains the difference between fear that can help and protect us, such as fear of deadly Australian snakes! And fears that paralyse our happiness and wellbeing. She then drills down to what is under those fears — the root fear that affects us all. Further reading in the following…

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Small Actions That Change Everything

Kadampa Buddhism — Mon, 20 Apr 2026 09:28:28 +0000

Kadam Bridget explains how we can actively shape our future through small, everyday acts of kindness. She shares a story about someone living in a community whose quiet contributions were only noticed after her death showing that creating positive karma doesn’t require world-changing heroics, just a good intention to benefit others. Everyone can transform their lives. Further reading in the…

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Empathy through exchanging self with others

Kadampa Buddhism — Mon, 13 Apr 2026 09:07:50 +0000

Gen Chodor explains how it is easier to love people when we understand what they are going through. Using examples and analogies he explains how we can better understand the actions of others if we put ourselves in their shoes. Sometimes people’s rude or challenging behaviour is coming from their inner pain or the difficulties in they are struggling with. He introduces the teachings of the Indian…

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