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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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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?
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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
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Determinations take us in a particular direction in life so they can empower us to change.
The special wisdom of knowing the source of our suffering
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Gen-la Khyenrab explains the importance of prayers in preparing our mind to properly listen to, understand and apply Buddha’s teachings in daily life.
The path to fearlessness
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Through receiving the wisdom blessings of the Dharma Protector we can transform appearances of adversity into realizations of renunciation, compassion and wisdom.
Contemplating the symbolism of the mandala of Dorje Shugden
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In the prayers ‘Melodious Drum’, the mandala of Dorje Shugden is described in detail. In this podcast we contemplate some of those details and their meaning.
Our normal method to solve human problems does not work
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Gen-la explains that our normal way of solving problems does not work because our human problems are inner problems not outer problems. Therefore only Dharma is the actual method to solve human problems.
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.
The three Higher Trainings are the method to get out of suffering
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What makes the three higher trainings ‘higher’? – The motivation of renunciation.
What is mental factor effort
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Mental factor effort makes the mind delight in virtue.
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