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Living Clarity

The Kadampa Living Clarity Podcast shares practical wisdom and inspiring conversations to help you apply Buddhist teachings in everyday life. Through relatable insights and real-life experiences, it offers guidance on overcoming challenges, deepening your meditation practice, and developing lasting inner peace, clarity, and compassion.

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Transform difficulties into spiritual fuel

October 7, 2025
Gen-la Dekyong
Gen-la Dekyong
Transform difficulties into spiritual fuel
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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.

The Practice of Relying Upon Dorje Shugden

October 6, 2025
Gen-la Dekyong
Gen-la Dekyong
The Practice of Relying Upon Dorje Shugden
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A Dharma protector is an emanation of a Buddha or Bodhisattva whose main functions are to avert the inner and outer obstacles that prevent practitioners from gaining spiritual realizations and to arrange all the necessary conditions for their practice.

Going against the self-cherishing mind

August 5, 2025
Gen-la Dekyong
Gen-la Dekyong
Going against the self-cherishing mind
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In this extract we learn a simple, practical method for … Read more

Have no hatred for enemies and no attachment for friends

August 4, 2025
Gen-la Dekyong
Gen-la Dekyong
Have no hatred for enemies and no attachment for friends
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In this clip Gen-la Dekyong explains the uncommon meaning of … Read more

Learning from our dreams

July 31, 2024
Gen-la Dekyong
Gen-la Dekyong
Learning from our dreams
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When we wake from our dreams we understand that everything we experienced was just an appearance to our dreaming mind. Buddha said you should know that all phenomena are like dreams.

What does it mean to improve our mind?

July 30, 2024
Gen-la Dekyong
Gen-la Dekyong
What does it mean to improve our mind?
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The purpose of practicing spiritual teachings is to improve our mind. What does it mean to improve our mind? It means to improve our compassion and wisdom.

Making wisdom determinations

July 29, 2024
Gen-la Dekyong
Gen-la Dekyong
Making wisdom determinations
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Determinations take us in a particular direction in life so they can empower us to change.

Developing a happy mind is as simple as stirring sugar into tea

May 6, 2024
Gen-la Dekyong
Gen-la Dekyong
Developing a happy mind is as simple as stirring sugar into tea
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We learn to control our own mind every day. Our mind can give us a happy life or a wretched life.

What is mental factor effort

March 21, 2024
Gen-la Dekyong
Gen-la Dekyong
What is mental factor effort
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Mental factor effort makes the mind delight in virtue.

Hope from Prayer

January 2, 2024
Gen-la Dekyong
Gen-la Dekyong
Hope from Prayer
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Finding Strength through Compassion and Prayer.

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