Kadampa Podcast

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.

Kadampa Podcasts - New Kadampa Tradition - Artwork

Filter by topic

Episodes

Start listening

The words of the refuge prayer

October 4, 2021

Gen-la Dekyong

The words of the refuge prayer

00:00 / 00:03:30

‘I’ means renunciation and ‘all sentient beings’ means compassion. These are our motivation for meditating on emptiness.

Irriversible faith and trust in the three Jewels

October 1, 2021

Gen-la Dekyong

Irriversible faith and trust in the three Jewels

00:00 / 00:05:16

We must develop irreversible faith and trust in the three Jewels. The refuge prayer is our mind determining to apply effort to rely upon the three Jewels. We don’t want to be like a parrot just making sound. Actual protection is Dharma in our heart.

What do we rely upon if we wish to permanently cease samsaric rebirth?

September 25, 2021

Gen-la Dekyong

What do we rely upon if we wish to permanently cease samsaric rebirth?

00:00 / 00:05:19

If we develop the wish to abandon samsara, we will look for a method to do this. Only Buddha teaches the method to permanently cease samsaric rebirth. To abandon samsara we must receive blessings, receive help from Sangha, and practice the Dharma of the three higher trainings. The three Jewels, Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha, are therefore the real wishfulfilling jewels.

Move our mind to think about others

September 23, 2021

Gen-la Dekyong

Move our mind to think about others

00:00 / 00:05:30

From contemplating our own real situation we can develop authentic compassion by contemplating their real situation.

Causes of refuge are our fear and our faith

September 20, 2021

Gen-la Dekyong

Causes of refuge are our fear and our faith

00:00 / 00:03:13

From Ven. Geshe-la, this is an oral instruction on how to develop wisdom fear that will lead to our renunciation, which then leads to authentic compassion.