PRAJNA SPARKS (Prajna Fire)
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| 29 Mar 2025 | 138 | Meditation | 00:26:18 | |
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. PRAJNA 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 the integrative dharma practice of listening, contemplating, and meditating from Prajna Rising, our online journal. Meet Lama Yeshe & Lama Zopa, in Tricycle Magazine https://bit.ly/3xRySck PUBLISHED ARTICLEShttps://www.prajnafire.com/media Prajna Fire on Substack https://prajnafire.substack.com PRAJNA SPARKS follows the lunar calendar. Look for new episodes on the new moons. Tibetan singing bowl interludes by Shivnee Ratna FOLLOW US Join our Global Community for regular updates on Prajna Fire events with Yeshe and Zopa Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa offer individual spiritual counsel on formal Buddhist practice as well as innovative ways to integrate Buddhist perspective into your everyday life. Book Online at Prajna Fire with immediate confirmation (https://www.prajnafire.com/book-online) Check us out in the media https://www.prajnafire.com/media EMAIL US sparks@prajnafire.com FIND US on the Prajna Fire website (https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks) @prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUzGmU7c4_TJdLhG9R8IDA/videos) Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) IG: @karmayeshechodron @karmazopajigme Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com) | |||
| 02 Mar 2022 | 80 | Lojong 59 - Stop yearning for standing ovations | 00:09:02 | |
Point 7: Tips, #59 - Stop yearning for standing ovations. 59 Days of Healing, a special series based on the Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind, a first millennium Tibetan Buddhist lojong text by Kadampa Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje, where we explore one maxim each day to build a strong foundation of understanding to integrate the practice into our lives. A great way to start the year--both Western, at the beginning of the series, and Tibetan, at the end! Lama Yeshe's everyday English rendering of the 59 maxims of the Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind, including brief comments, is available for download in her ebook Heal Transform Transcend: Notes on Kadampa Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje's Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind. PRAJNA SPARKS will return to its regular lunar calendar schedule of hour long episodes after this series. Look for new episodes on full moon days. COMMENTARIES ON THE SEVEN POINTS FOR HEALING DUALISTIC MIND The Great Path of Awakening, Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Thaye, Ken McLeod, translator The Practice of Lojong: Cultivating Compassion through Training the Mind, Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche The Intelligent Heart: A Guide to the Compassionate Life, Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche Training the Mind and Cultivating Loving-Kindness, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche Start Where You Are, Pema Chodron Follow Lama Yeshe on Instagram for visual posts of her everyday English rendering of the 59 maxims with brief commentary. Stay tuned for more news on practicing #lojong with the Prajna Sparks team. RESOURCES Join our Global Community for regular updates on Prajna Fire events with Yeshe and Zopa Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa offer individual spiritual counsel on formal Buddhist practice as well as innovative ways to integrate Buddhist perspective into your everyday life. Book Online at Prajna Fire with immediate confirmation (https://www.prajnafire.com/book-online) EMAIL US sparks@prajnafire.com FIND US on the Prajna Fire website (https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks) @prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter Sing-a-long with us on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUzGmU7c4_TJdLhG9R8IDA/videos) Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) IG: @karmayeshechodron @karmazopajigme Tania Israel (www.taniaisrael.com) Heather Stevenson (www.heatherstevenson.com) Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com) | |||
| 25 Sep 2022 | 95 | Everyday Peace: Rev. Doyeon Park on #WhyNirvanaMatters | 00:21:40 | |
Talk #2. Lama Yeshe talks with Reverend Doyeon Park of Won Buddhist Temple of Manhattan. Learn more about Won Buddhism and Rev. Doyeon Park at https://wonbuddhismnyc.org/rev-doyeon-park/ #WhyNirvanaMatters is a series of talks with contemporary Buddhist teachers about Nirvana, peace, and its relevance in our lives and practice of Dharma. Tibetan singing bowl interludes by Shivnee Ratna PRAJNA SPARKS follows the lunar calendar. Look for new episodes on new and full moon days. RESOURCES Nirvana Episodes 4 and 93 Listen Contemplate Meditate, by Lama Yeshe, in Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Guide https://bit.ly/3ygFsus Meditative Inquiry, by Lama Yeshe, in Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Guide https://bit.ly/3xRySck Meet Lama Yeshe & Lama Zopa, in Tricycle Magazine https://bit.ly/3xRySck FOLLOW US Join our Global Community for regular updates on Prajna Fire events with Yeshe and Zopa Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa offer individual spiritual counsel on formal Buddhist practice as well as innovative ways to integrate Buddhist perspective into your everyday life. Book Online at Prajna Fire with immediate confirmation (https://www.prajnafire.com/book-online) Hear Lama Yeshe's story on Opening Dharma Access: Listening to BIPOC Teachers https://ihr.fm/3uwqxZW And follow her guided practice of Tonglen Meditation & Sacred Creativity https://ihr.fm/3Lk9Kjy EMAIL US sparks@prajnafire.com FIND US on the Prajna Fire website (https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks) @prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUzGmU7c4_TJdLhG9R8IDA/videos) Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) IG: @karmayeshechodron @karmazopajigme Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com) | |||
| 24 Feb 2022 | 74 | Lojong 53 - Give up inconstancy | 00:11:58 | |
Point 7: Tips, #53 - Give up inconstancy. 59 Days of Healing, a special series based on the Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind, a first millennium Tibetan Buddhist lojong text by Kadampa Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje, where we explore one maxim each day to build a strong foundation of understanding to integrate the practice into our lives. A great way to start the year--both Western, at the beginning of the series, and Tibetan, at the end! Lama Yeshe's everyday English rendering of the 59 maxims of the Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind, including brief comments, is available for download in her ebook Heal Transform Transcend: Notes on Kadampa Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje's Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind. PRAJNA SPARKS will return to its regular lunar calendar schedule of hour long episodes after this series. Look for new episodes on full moon days. COMMENTARIES ON THE SEVEN POINTS FOR HEALING DUALISTIC MIND The Great Path of Awakening, Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Thaye, Ken McLeod, translator The Practice of Lojong: Cultivating Compassion through Training the Mind, Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche The Intelligent Heart: A Guide to the Compassionate Life, Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche Training the Mind and Cultivating Loving-Kindness, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche Start Where You Are, Pema Chodron Follow Lama Yeshe on Instagram for visual posts of her everyday English rendering of the 59 maxims with brief commentary. Stay tuned for more news on practicing #lojong with the Prajna Sparks team. RESOURCES Join our Global Community for regular updates on Prajna Fire events with Yeshe and Zopa Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa offer individual spiritual counsel on formal Buddhist practice as well as innovative ways to integrate Buddhist perspective into your everyday life. Book Online at Prajna Fire with immediate confirmation (https://www.prajnafire.com/book-online) EMAIL US sparks@prajnafire.com FIND US on the Prajna Fire website (https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks) @prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter Sing-a-long with us on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUzGmU7c4_TJdLhG9R8IDA/videos) Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) IG: @karmayeshechodron @karmazopajigme Tania Israel (www.taniaisrael.com) Heather Stevenson (www.heatherstevenson.com) Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com) | |||
| 18 Jan 2022 | 37 | Lojong 16 - When you get blindsided, carry whatever hit you right into your practice | 00:10:06 | |
Point 3: Turn Challenges Into Opportunities #16 When you get blindsided, carry whatever hit you right into your practice. 59 Days of Healing, a special series based on the Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind, a first millennium Tibetan Buddhist lojong text by Kadampa Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje, where we explore one maxim each day to build a strong foundation of understanding to integrate the practice into our lives. A great way to start the year--both Western, at the beginning of the series, and Tibetan, at the end! Lama Yeshe's everyday English rendering of the 59 maxims of the Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind, including brief comments, is available for download in her ebook Heal Transform Transcend: Notes on Kadampa Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje's Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind. PRAJNA SPARKS will return to its regular lunar calendar schedule of hour long episodes after this series. Look for new episodes on full moon days. COMMENTARIES ON THE SEVEN POINTS FOR HEALING DUALISTIC MIND The Great Path of Awakening, Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Thaye, Ken McLeod, translator The Practice of Lojong: Cultivating Compassion through Training the Mind, Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche The Intelligent Heart: A Guide to the Compassionate Life, Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche Training the Mind and Cultivating Loving-Kindness, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche Start Where You Are, Pema Chodron Follow Lama Yeshe on Instagram for visual posts of her everyday English rendering of the 59 maxims with brief commentary. Stay tuned for more news on practicing #lojong with the Prajna Sparks team. RESOURCES Join our Global Community for regular updates on Prajna Fire events with Yeshe and Zopa Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa offer individual spiritual counsel on formal Buddhist practice as well as innovative ways to integrate Buddhist perspective into your everyday life. Book Online at Prajna Fire with immediate confirmation (https://www.prajnafire.com/book-online) EMAIL US sparks@prajnafire.com FIND US on the Prajna Fire website (https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks) @prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter Sing-a-long with us on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUzGmU7c4_TJdLhG9R8IDA/videos) Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) IG: @karmayeshechodron @karmazopajigme Tania Israel (www.taniaisrael.com) Heather Stevenson (www.heatherstevenson.com) Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com) | |||
| 20 Jan 2022 | 39 | Lojong 18 - The previous five forces are vital at the time of death, so your daily practice is decisive | 00:11:41 | |
Point 4: Enrich Every Moment, #18 - The previous five forces are vital at the time of death, so your daily practice is decisive. 59 Days of Healing, a special series based on the Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind, a first millennium Tibetan Buddhist lojong text by Kadampa Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje, where we explore one maxim each day to build a strong foundation of understanding to integrate the practice into our lives. A great way to start the year--both Western, at the beginning of the series, and Tibetan, at the end! Lama Yeshe's everyday English rendering of the 59 maxims of the Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind, including brief comments, is available for download in her ebook Heal Transform Transcend: Notes on Kadampa Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje's Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind. PRAJNA SPARKS will return to its regular lunar calendar schedule of hour long episodes after this series. Look for new episodes on full moon days. COMMENTARIES ON THE SEVEN POINTS FOR HEALING DUALISTIC MIND The Great Path of Awakening, Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Thaye, Ken McLeod, translator The Practice of Lojong: Cultivating Compassion through Training the Mind, Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche The Intelligent Heart: A Guide to the Compassionate Life, Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche Training the Mind and Cultivating Loving-Kindness, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche Start Where You Are, Pema Chodron Follow Lama Yeshe on Instagram for visual posts of her everyday English rendering of the 59 maxims with brief commentary. Stay tuned for more news on practicing #lojong with the Prajna Sparks team. RESOURCES Join our Global Community for regular updates on Prajna Fire events with Yeshe and Zopa Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa offer individual spiritual counsel on formal Buddhist practice as well as innovative ways to integrate Buddhist perspective into your everyday life. Book Online at Prajna Fire with immediate confirmation (https://www.prajnafire.com/book-online) EMAIL US sparks@prajnafire.com FIND US on the Prajna Fire website (https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks) @prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter Sing-a-long with us on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUzGmU7c4_TJdLhG9R8IDA/videos) Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) IG: @karmayeshechodron @karmazopajigme Tania Israel (www.taniaisrael.com) Heather Stevenson (www.heatherstevenson.com) Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com) | |||
| 04 Jan 2022 | 23 | Lojong 2 - Treat everything as a dream | 00:25:14 | |
Point 2: Nurture the Intent to Awaken, #2: Treat everything as a dream. 59 Days of Healing, a special series based on the Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind, a first millennium Tibetan Buddhist lojong text by Kadampa Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje, where we explore one maxim each day to build a strong foundation of understanding to integrate the practice into our lives. A great way to start the year--both Western, at the beginning of the series, and Tibetan, at the end! Lama Yeshe's everyday English rendering of the 59 maxims of the Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind, including brief comments, is available for download in her ebook Heal Transform Transcend: Notes on Kadampa Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje's Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind. PRAJNA SPARKS will return to its regular lunar calendar schedule of hour long episodes after this series. Look for new episodes on full moon days. COMMENTARIES ON THE SEVEN POINTS FOR HEALING DUALISTIC MIND The Great Path of Awakening, Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Thaye, Ken McLeod, translator The Practice of Lojong: Cultivating Compassion through Training the Mind, Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche The Intelligent Heart: A Guide to the Compassionate Life, Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche Training the Mind and Cultivating Loving-Kindness, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche Start Where You Are, Pema Chodron Follow Lama Yeshe on Instagram for visual posts of her everyday English rendering of the 59 maxims with brief commentary. Stay tuned for more news on practicing #lojong with the Prajna Sparks team. RESOURCES Join our Global Community for regular updates on Prajna Fire events with Yeshe and Zopa Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa offer individual spiritual counsel on formal Buddhist practice as well as innovative ways to integrate Buddhist perspective into your everyday life. Book Online at Prajna Fire with immediate confirmation (https://www.prajnafire.com/book-online) EMAIL US sparks@prajnafire.com FIND US on the Prajna Fire website (https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks) @prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter Sing-a-long with us on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUzGmU7c4_TJdLhG9R8IDA/videos) Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) IG: @karmayeshechodron @karmazopajigme Tania Israel (www.taniaisrael.com) Heather Stevenson (www.heatherstevenson.com) Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com) | |||
| 21 Feb 2022 | 71 Lojong 50 - Do not count on circumstances | 00:07:54 | |
Point 7: Tips, #50 - Do not count on circumstances. 59 Days of Healing, a special series based on the Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind, a first millennium Tibetan Buddhist lojong text by Kadampa Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje, where we explore one maxim each day to build a strong foundation of understanding to integrate the practice into our lives. A great way to start the year--both Western, at the beginning of the series, and Tibetan, at the end! Lama Yeshe's everyday English rendering of the 59 maxims of the Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind, including brief comments, is available for download in her ebook Heal Transform Transcend: Notes on Kadampa Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje's Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind. PRAJNA SPARKS will return to its regular lunar calendar schedule of hour long episodes after this series. Look for new episodes on full moon days. COMMENTARIES ON THE SEVEN POINTS FOR HEALING DUALISTIC MIND The Great Path of Awakening, Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Thaye, Ken McLeod, translator The Practice of Lojong: Cultivating Compassion through Training the Mind, Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche The Intelligent Heart: A Guide to the Compassionate Life, Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche Training the Mind and Cultivating Loving-Kindness, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche Start Where You Are, Pema Chodron Follow Lama Yeshe on Instagram for visual posts of her everyday English rendering of the 59 maxims with brief commentary. Stay tuned for more news on practicing #lojong with the Prajna Sparks team. RESOURCES Join our Global Community for regular updates on Prajna Fire events with Yeshe and Zopa Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa offer individual spiritual counsel on formal Buddhist practice as well as innovative ways to integrate Buddhist perspective into your everyday life. Book Online at Prajna Fire with immediate confirmation (https://www.prajnafire.com/book-online) EMAIL US sparks@prajnafire.com FIND US on the Prajna Fire website (https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks) @prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter Sing-a-long with us on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUzGmU7c4_TJdLhG9R8IDA/videos) Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) IG: @karmayeshechodron @karmazopajigme Tania Israel (www.taniaisrael.com) Heather Stevenson (www.heatherstevenson.com) Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com) | |||
| 14 Jun 2022 | 88 | Devotion | 00:34:29 | |
What is devotion? What is all the fuss about devotion in Tibetan Buddhist practice? How is valuable in all Buddhist spiritual practice? This episode drops on June 14, 2022, Saga Dawa Duchen, the Tibetan Buddhist day of commemoration of the Buddha Shakyamuni's birth, enlightenment, and parinirvana. Join us live on Zoom at 8AM US Mountain time for a chanting practice of the Praise of the Twelve Deeds of the Buddha. After today, we will continue every Monday at the same time until August 1, 2022, the day commemorating the Buddha's first public teaching, the Four Truths of Realized Beings. Sign up here for Zoom links and reminders: https://www.prajnafire.com/service-page/praise-of-the-twelve-deeds CONTENTS
Tibetan singing bowl interludes by Shivnee Ratna PRAJNA SPARKS follows the lunar calendar. Look for new episodes on new and full moon days, and contemplation interludes on the quarter moons. LAMA YESHE Follow Lama Yeshe on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/karmayeshechodron/ Hear her story on Opening Dharma Access: Listening to BIPOC Teachers https://ihr.fm/3uwqxZW And follow her in a guided practice of Tonglen Meditation & Sacred Creativity https://ihr.fm/3Lk9Kjy RESOURCES Join our Global Community for regular updates on Prajna Fire events with Yeshe and Zopa Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa offer individual spiritual counsel on formal Buddhist practice as well as innovative ways to integrate Buddhist perspective into your everyday life. Book Online at Prajna Fire with immediate confirmation (https://www.prajnafire.com/book-online) EMAIL US sparks@prajnafire.com FIND US on the Prajna Fire website (https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks) @prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUzGmU7c4_TJdLhG9R8IDA/videos) Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) IG: @karmayeshechodron @karmazopajigme Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com) | |||
| 06 Jun 2024 | 130 | One-Pointedness | 00:34:35 | |
Exploring the mind in Mahamudra practice brings us increased intimacy with its qualities as we practice, experience, and realize the Four Yogas of Mahamudra. Lamas Yeshe & Zopa describe the Yoga of One-Pointedness, the practice, meditative experience, and realization of wholness, unity, complementarity of all things in emptiness. Contemplate a passage about One-Pointedness and follow a guided meditation to connect with the essence of all experience, inseparable from experience and experiencer. PRAJNA SPARKS follows the lunar calendar. Look for new episodes on the new moons. Tibetan singing bowl interludes by Shivnee Ratna RESOURCES Meet Lama Yeshe & Lama Zopa, in Tricycle Magazine https://bit.ly/3xRySck PUBLISHED ARTICLEShttps://www.prajnafire.com/media Prajna Fire on Substack https://prajnafire.substack.com FOLLOW US Join our Global Community for regular updates on Prajna Fire events with Yeshe and Zopa Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa offer individual spiritual counsel on formal Buddhist practice as well as innovative ways to integrate Buddhist perspective into your everyday life. Book Online at Prajna Fire with immediate confirmation (https://www.prajnafire.com/book-online) Check us out in the media https://www.prajnafire.com/media EMAIL US sparks@prajnafire.com FIND US on the Prajna Fire website (https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks) @prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUzGmU7c4_TJdLhG9R8IDA/videos) Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) IG: @karmayeshechodron @karmazopajigme Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com)
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| 28 Jul 2022 | 91 | Dukkha | 00:38:28 | |
Second of a four part series on the Four Hallmarks of the Buddha's teachings, this episode explores dukkha (suffering) in our immediate experience, through the dynamic practice of Meditative Inquiry. A vital element of healing and transforming in Tibetan Buddhist practice, meditative inquiry is also the heart of the Buddha's contemplative technology for cultivating view progressively, all the way to transcending views altogether. CONTENTS
Tibetan singing bowl interludes by Shivnee Ratna PRAJNA SPARKS follows the lunar calendar. Look for new episodes on new and full moon days, and contemplation interludes on the quarter moons. RESOURCES Prajna SparksEpisode 89 and 89 Q&A introduce Meditative Inquiry Listen Contemplate Meditate, by Lama Yeshe, in Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Guide https://bit.ly/3ygFsus Meditative Inquiry, by Lama Yeshe, in Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Guide https://bit.ly/3xRySck Meet Lama Yeshe & Lama Zopa, in Tricycle Magazine https://bit.ly/3xRySck Join us live on Zoom every Monday at 8AM US Mountain time for a chanting practice of the Praise of the Twelve Deeds of the Buddha, until August 1, 2022, the day commemorating the Buddha's first public teaching, the Four Truths of Noble Beings. Sign up here for Zoom links and reminders: https://www.prajnafire.com/service-page/praise-of-the-twelve-deeds FOLLOW US Join our Global Community for regular updates on Prajna Fire events with Yeshe and Zopa Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa offer individual spiritual counsel on formal Buddhist practice as well as innovative ways to integrate Buddhist perspective into your everyday life. Book Online at Prajna Fire with immediate confirmation (https://www.prajnafire.com/book-online) Hear Lama Yeshe's story on Opening Dharma Access: Listening to BIPOC Teachers https://ihr.fm/3uwqxZW And follow her guided practice of Tonglen Meditation & Sacred Creativity https://ihr.fm/3Lk9Kjy EMAIL US sparks@prajnafire.com FIND US on the Prajna Fire website (https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks) @prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUzGmU7c4_TJdLhG9R8IDA/videos) Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) IG: @karmayeshechodron @karmazopajigme Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com) | |||
| 08 Apr 2024 | 128 | One Taste | 00:35:09 | |
Exploring the mind in Mahamudra practice brings us increased intimacy with its qualities as we practice, experience, and realize the Four Yogas of Mahamudra. Lamas Yeshe & Zopa describe the Yoga of One Taste, the practice, meditative experience, and realization of wholness, unity, complementarity of all things in emptiness. Contemplate quotes about One Taste and follow a guided meditation to connect with the essence of all experience, inseparable from experience and experiencer. PRAJNA SPARKS follows the lunar calendar. Look for new episodes on the new moons. Tibetan singing bowl interludes by Shivnee Ratna RESOURCES Meet Lama Yeshe & Lama Zopa, in Tricycle Magazine https://bit.ly/3xRySck PUBLISHED ARTICLEShttps://www.prajnafire.com/media https://prajnafire.substack.com FOLLOW US Join our Global Community for regular updates on Prajna Fire events with Yeshe and Zopa Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa offer individual spiritual counsel on formal Buddhist practice as well as innovative ways to integrate Buddhist perspective into your everyday life. Book Online at Prajna Fire with immediate confirmation (https://www.prajnafire.com/book-online) Check us out in the media https://www.prajnafire.com/media EMAIL US sparks@prajnafire.com FIND US on the Prajna Fire website (https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks) @prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUzGmU7c4_TJdLhG9R8IDA/videos) Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) IG: @karmayeshechodron @karmazopajigme Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com)
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| 06 Aug 2022 | Q&A | Dukkha | 00:24:39 | |
Yeshe and Zopa respond to listeners live, discussing last week's "Dukkha" episode in this Contemplation interlude... Tibetan singing bowl interludes by Shivnee Ratna PRAJNA SPARKS follows the lunar calendar. Look for new episodes on new and full moon days, and contemplation interludes on the quarter moons. RESOURCES Read more about the integrative dharma practice of Listening Contemplating and Meditating in its full practice context in Lama Yeshe's latest article for Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Guide https://bit.ly/3ygFsus KEEP UP WITH US Follow Lama Yeshe on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/karmayeshechodron/ Hear her story on Opening Dharma Access: Listening to BIPOC Teachers https://ihr.fm/3uwqxZW And follow her in a guided practice of Tonglen Meditation & Sacred Creativity https://ihr.fm/3Lk9Kjy Join our Global Community for regular updates on Prajna Fire events with Yeshe and Zopa Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa offer individual spiritual counsel on formal Buddhist practice as well as innovative ways to integrate Buddhist perspective into your everyday life. Book Online at Prajna Fire with immediate confirmation (https://www.prajnafire.com/book-online) EMAIL US sparks@prajnafire.com FIND US on the Prajna Fire website (https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks) @prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUzGmU7c4_TJdLhG9R8IDA/videos) Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) IG: @karmayeshechodron @karmazopajigme Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com) | |||
| 26 Feb 2022 | 76 | Lojong 55 - Free yourself by both investigating and examining | 00:16:00 | |
Point 7: Tips, #55 - Free yourself by both investigating and examining. 59 Days of Healing, a special series based on the Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind, a first millennium Tibetan Buddhist lojong text by Kadampa Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje, where we explore one maxim each day to build a strong foundation of understanding to integrate the practice into our lives. A great way to start the year--both Western, at the beginning of the series, and Tibetan, at the end! Lama Yeshe's everyday English rendering of the 59 maxims of the Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind, including brief comments, is available for download in her ebook Heal Transform Transcend: Notes on Kadampa Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje's Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind. PRAJNA SPARKS will return to its regular lunar calendar schedule of hour long episodes after this series. Look for new episodes on full moon days. COMMENTARIES ON THE SEVEN POINTS FOR HEALING DUALISTIC MIND The Great Path of Awakening, Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Thaye, Ken McLeod, translator The Practice of Lojong: Cultivating Compassion through Training the Mind, Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche The Intelligent Heart: A Guide to the Compassionate Life, Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche Training the Mind and Cultivating Loving-Kindness, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche Start Where You Are, Pema Chodron Follow Lama Yeshe on Instagram for visual posts of her everyday English rendering of the 59 maxims with brief commentary. Stay tuned for more news on practicing #lojong with the Prajna Sparks team. RESOURCES Join our Global Community for regular updates on Prajna Fire events with Yeshe and Zopa Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa offer individual spiritual counsel on formal Buddhist practice as well as innovative ways to integrate Buddhist perspective into your everyday life. Book Online at Prajna Fire with immediate confirmation (https://www.prajnafire.com/book-online) EMAIL US sparks@prajnafire.com FIND US on the Prajna Fire website (https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks) @prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter Sing-a-long with us on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUzGmU7c4_TJdLhG9R8IDA/videos) Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) IG: @karmayeshechodron @karmazopajigme Tania Israel (www.taniaisrael.com) Heather Stevenson (www.heatherstevenson.com) Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com) | |||
| 02 Nov 2022 | BONUS | Karma Swiftly | 00:31:00 | |
In today's bonus episode, Yeshe welcomes back Tania to discuss Taylor Swift's new song, Karma. RESOURCES Taylor Swift, Karma. Official Lyric Video. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rg18Kf4en2o Tricycle: The Buddhist Review, Audio Dharma: What We're Listening To, Winter 2022 59 Lojong Maxims Official Video FOLLOW US Join our Global Community for regular updates on Prajna Fire events with Yeshe and Zopa Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa offer individual spiritual counsel on formal Buddhist practice as well as innovative ways to integrate Buddhist perspective into your everyday life. Book Online at Prajna Fire with immediate confirmation (https://www.prajnafire.com/book-online) Hear Lama Yeshe's story on Opening Dharma Access: Listening to BIPOC Teachers https://ihr.fm/3uwqxZW And follow her guided practice of Tonglen Meditation & Sacred Creativity https://ihr.fm/3Lk9Kjy EMAIL US sparks@prajnafire.com FIND US on the Prajna Fire website (https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks) @prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUzGmU7c4_TJdLhG9R8IDA/videos) Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) IG: @karmayeshechodron @karmazopajigme Dr. Tania Israel IG: @drtaniaisrael Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com) TAGS | |||
| 26 Jan 2022 | 45 | Lojong 24 - Transform your outlook yet lay low | 00:07:32 | |
Point 6: Healing Promises #24 - Transform your outlook yet lay low. 59 Days of Healing, a special series based on the Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind, a first millennium Tibetan Buddhist lojong text by Kadampa Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje, where we explore one maxim each day to build a strong foundation of understanding to integrate the practice into our lives. A great way to start the year--both Western, at the beginning of the series, and Tibetan, at the end! Lama Yeshe's everyday English rendering of the 59 maxims of the Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind, including brief comments, is available for download in her ebook Heal Transform Transcend: Notes on Kadampa Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje's Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind. PRAJNA SPARKS will return to its regular lunar calendar schedule of hour long episodes after this series. Look for new episodes on full moon days. COMMENTARIES ON THE SEVEN POINTS FOR HEALING DUALISTIC MIND The Great Path of Awakening, Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Thaye, Ken McLeod, translator The Practice of Lojong: Cultivating Compassion through Training the Mind, Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche The Intelligent Heart: A Guide to the Compassionate Life, Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche Training the Mind and Cultivating Loving-Kindness, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche Start Where You Are, Pema Chodron Follow Lama Yeshe on Instagram for visual posts of her everyday English rendering of the 59 maxims with brief commentary. Stay tuned for more news on practicing #lojong with the Prajna Sparks team. RESOURCES Join our Global Community for regular updates on Prajna Fire events with Yeshe and Zopa Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa offer individual spiritual counsel on formal Buddhist practice as well as innovative ways to integrate Buddhist perspective into your everyday life. Book Online at Prajna Fire with immediate confirmation (https://www.prajnafire.com/book-online) EMAIL US sparks@prajnafire.com FIND US on the Prajna Fire website (https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks) @prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter Sing-a-long with us on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUzGmU7c4_TJdLhG9R8IDA/videos) Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) IG: @karmayeshechodron @karmazopajigme Tania Israel (www.taniaisrael.com) Heather Stevenson (www.heatherstevenson.com) Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com) | |||
| 14 Feb 2022 | 64 Lojong 43 - Guard two things as if your life depends on it | 00:10:34 | |
Point 7: Tips, #43 - Guard two things as if your life depends on it. 59 Days of Healing, a special series based on the Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind, a first millennium Tibetan Buddhist lojong text by Kadampa Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje, where we explore one maxim each day to build a strong foundation of understanding to integrate the practice into our lives. A great way to start the year--both Western, at the beginning of the series, and Tibetan, at the end! Lama Yeshe's everyday English rendering of the 59 maxims of the Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind, including brief comments, is available for download in her ebook Heal Transform Transcend: Notes on Kadampa Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje's Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind. PRAJNA SPARKS will return to its regular lunar calendar schedule of hour long episodes after this series. Look for new episodes on full moon days. COMMENTARIES ON THE SEVEN POINTS FOR HEALING DUALISTIC MIND The Great Path of Awakening, Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Thaye, Ken McLeod, translator The Practice of Lojong: Cultivating Compassion through Training the Mind, Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche The Intelligent Heart: A Guide to the Compassionate Life, Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche Training the Mind and Cultivating Loving-Kindness, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche Start Where You Are, Pema Chodron Follow Lama Yeshe on Instagram for visual posts of her everyday English rendering of the 59 maxims with brief commentary. Stay tuned for more news on practicing #lojong with the Prajna Sparks team. RESOURCES Join our Global Community for regular updates on Prajna Fire events with Yeshe and Zopa Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa offer individual spiritual counsel on formal Buddhist practice as well as innovative ways to integrate Buddhist perspective into your everyday life. Book Online at Prajna Fire with immediate confirmation (https://www.prajnafire.com/book-online) EMAIL US sparks@prajnafire.com FIND US on the Prajna Fire website (https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks) @prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter Sing-a-long with us on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUzGmU7c4_TJdLhG9R8IDA/videos) Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) IG: @karmayeshechodron @karmazopajigme Tania Israel (www.taniaisrael.com) Heather Stevenson (www.heatherstevenson.com) Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com) | |||
| 12 Feb 2022 | 62 | Lojong 41 - Open and close with two acts | 00:13:29 | |
Point 7: Tips #41 - Open and close with two acts. 59 Days of Healing, a special series based on the Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind, a first millennium Tibetan Buddhist lojong text by Kadampa Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje, where we explore one maxim each day to build a strong foundation of understanding to integrate the practice into our lives. A great way to start the year--both Western, at the beginning of the series, and Tibetan, at the end! Lama Yeshe's everyday English rendering of the 59 maxims of the Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind, including brief comments, is available for download in her ebook Heal Transform Transcend: Notes on Kadampa Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje's Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind. PRAJNA SPARKS will return to its regular lunar calendar schedule of hour long episodes after this series. Look for new episodes on full moon days. COMMENTARIES ON THE SEVEN POINTS FOR HEALING DUALISTIC MIND The Great Path of Awakening, Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Thaye, Ken McLeod, translator The Practice of Lojong: Cultivating Compassion through Training the Mind, Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche The Intelligent Heart: A Guide to the Compassionate Life, Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche Training the Mind and Cultivating Loving-Kindness, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche Start Where You Are, Pema Chodron Follow Lama Yeshe on Instagram for visual posts of her everyday English rendering of the 59 maxims with brief commentary. Stay tuned for more news on practicing #lojong with the Prajna Sparks team. RESOURCES Join our Global Community for regular updates on Prajna Fire events with Yeshe and Zopa Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa offer individual spiritual counsel on formal Buddhist practice as well as innovative ways to integrate Buddhist perspective into your everyday life. Book Online at Prajna Fire with immediate confirmation (https://www.prajnafire.com/book-online) EMAIL US sparks@prajnafire.com FIND US on the Prajna Fire website (https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks) @prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter Sing-a-long with us on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUzGmU7c4_TJdLhG9R8IDA/videos) Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) IG: @karmayeshechodron @karmazopajigme Tania Israel (www.taniaisrael.com) Heather Stevenson (www.heatherstevenson.com) Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com) | |||
| 25 Feb 2022 | 75 | Lojong 54 - Train wholeheartedly | 00:11:18 | |
Point 7: Tips, #54 - Train wholeheartedly. 59 Days of Healing, a special series based on the Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind, a first millennium Tibetan Buddhist lojong text by Kadampa Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje, where we explore one maxim each day to build a strong foundation of understanding to integrate the practice into our lives. A great way to start the year--both Western, at the beginning of the series, and Tibetan, at the end! Lama Yeshe's everyday English rendering of the 59 maxims of the Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind, including brief comments, is available for download in her ebook Heal Transform Transcend: Notes on Kadampa Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje's Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind. PRAJNA SPARKS will return to its regular lunar calendar schedule of hour long episodes after this series. Look for new episodes on full moon days. COMMENTARIES ON THE SEVEN POINTS FOR HEALING DUALISTIC MIND The Great Path of Awakening, Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Thaye, Ken McLeod, translator The Practice of Lojong: Cultivating Compassion through Training the Mind, Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche The Intelligent Heart: A Guide to the Compassionate Life, Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche Training the Mind and Cultivating Loving-Kindness, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche Start Where You Are, Pema Chodron Follow Lama Yeshe on Instagram for visual posts of her everyday English rendering of the 59 maxims with brief commentary. Stay tuned for more news on practicing #lojong with the Prajna Sparks team. RESOURCES Join our Global Community for regular updates on Prajna Fire events with Yeshe and Zopa Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa offer individual spiritual counsel on formal Buddhist practice as well as innovative ways to integrate Buddhist perspective into your everyday life. Book Online at Prajna Fire with immediate confirmation (https://www.prajnafire.com/book-online) EMAIL US sparks@prajnafire.com FIND US on the Prajna Fire website (https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks) @prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter Sing-a-long with us on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUzGmU7c4_TJdLhG9R8IDA/videos) Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) IG: @karmayeshechodron @karmazopajigme Tania Israel (www.taniaisrael.com) Heather Stevenson (www.heatherstevenson.com) Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com) | |||
| 03 Jul 2023 | 114 | Got Faith? | 00:47:33 | |
As Prajna Sparks Podcast celebrates our third anniversary this summer, we honor three years together with you with rebroadcasts of the most popular episodes of the last three years. In the midst of the sacred time in the Tibetan Buddhist calendar between the holidays commemorating the Buddha Shakyamuni's enlightenment and his first public discourse, when we recall and reflect on his seven weeks of solitary solitude near the bodhi tree, in the forest along the Niranjana River, we offer this consideration of Faith. What is faith? Do I have to turn in my intelligence if I have some? And how do I get me some, exactly? Revisit the highlights of Prajna Sparks and check in on how beautifully you have integrated the Buddhadharma during our time together. And most importantly, thanks so much for your support, and for listening, contemplating, and meditating along with us. RESOURCES Meet Lama Yeshe & Lama Zopa, in Tricycle Magazine https://bit.ly/3xRySck Listen Contemplate Meditate, by Lama Yeshe, in Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Guide https://bit.ly/3ygFsus Meditative Inquiry, by Lama Yeshe, in Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Guide https://bit.ly/3xRySck EMAIL US sparks@prajnafire.com FIND US on the Prajna Fire website (https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks) @prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUzGmU7c4_TJdLhG9R8IDA/videos) Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) IG: @karmayeshechodron @karmazopajigme Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa offer individual spiritual counsel on formal Buddhist practice as well as innovative ways to integrate Buddhist perspective into your everyday life. Online booking with immediate confirmation. EMAIL US sparks@prajnafire.com FIND US www.prajnafire.com/sparks @prajnasparks on Facebook and Instagram Sing-a-long with us on Youtube Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) Tania Israel (www.taniaisrael.com) Heather Stevenson (www.heatherstevenson.com) Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com) | |||
| 03 Jan 2022 | 22 | Lojong 1 - First, lay the foundation | 00:21:29 | |
Point 1: Begin with the Basics, #1: First, lay the foundation. 59 Days of Healing, a special series based on the Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind, a first millennium Tibetan Buddhist lojong text by Kadampa Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje, where we explore one maxim each day to build a strong foundation of understanding to integrate the practice into our lives. A great way to start the year--both Western, at the beginning of the series, and Tibetan, at the end! Lama Yeshe's everyday English rendering of the 59 maxims of the Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind, including brief comments, is available for download in her ebook Heal Transform Transcend: Notes on Kadampa Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje's Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind. PRAJNA SPARKS will return to its regular lunar calendar schedule of hour long episodes after this series. Look for new episodes on full moon days. COMMENTARIES ON THE SEVEN POINTS FOR HEALING DUALISTIC MIND The Great Path of Awakening, Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Thaye, Ken McLeod, translator The Practice of Lojong: Cultivating Compassion through Training the Mind, Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche The Intelligent Heart: A Guide to the Compassionate Life, Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche Training the Mind and Cultivating Loving-Kindness, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche Start Where You Are, Pema Chodron Follow Lama Yeshe on Instagram for more posts on Tibetan Buddhist texts and practice in the modern world. Stay tuned for more news on practicing #lojong with the Prajna Sparks team. RESOURCES Join our Global Community for regular updates on Prajna Fire events with Yeshe and Zopa Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa offer individual spiritual counsel on formal Buddhist practice as well as innovative ways to integrate Buddhist perspective into your everyday life. Book Online at Prajna Fire with immediate confirmation (https://www.prajnafire.com/book-online) EMAIL US sparks@prajnafire.com FIND US on the Prajna Fire website (https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks) @prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter Sing-a-long with us on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUzGmU7c4_TJdLhG9R8IDA/videos) Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) IG: @karmayeshechodron @karmazopajigme Tania Israel (www.taniaisrael.com) Heather Stevenson (www.heatherstevenson.com) Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com) | |||
| 02 Jan 2022 | 21 | Lojong Opening - 59 Days of Healing Series | 00:14:08 | |
Throughout 59 Days of Healing, our special series based on the Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind, a first millennium Tibetan Buddhist lojong text by Kadampa Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje, Prajna Sparks explores one maxim each day to build a strong foundation of understanding to integrate the practice into our lives. A great way to start the year--both Western, at the beginning of the series, and Tibetan, at the end! Lama Yeshe's everyday English rendering of the 59 maxims of the Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind, including brief comments, is available for download in her ebook Heal Transform Transcend: Notes on Kadampa Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje's Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind. PRAJNA SPARKS will return to its regular lunar calendar schedule of hour long episodes after this series. Look for new episodes on full moon days. COMMENTARIES ON THE SEVEN POINTS FOR HEALING DUALISTIC MIND The Great Path of Awakening, Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Thaye, Ken McLeod, translator The Practice of Lojong: Cultivating Compassion through Training the Mind, Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche The Intelligent Heart: A Guide to the Compassionate Life, Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche Training the Mind and Cultivating Loving-Kindness, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche Start Where You Are, Pema Chodron Follow Lama Yeshe on Instagram for more posts on Tibetan Buddhist texts and practice in the modern world. Stay tuned for more news on practicing #lojong with the Prajna Sparks team. RESOURCES Join our Global Community for regular updates on Prajna Fire events with Yeshe and Zopa Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa offer individual spiritual counsel on formal Buddhist practice as well as innovative ways to integrate Buddhist perspective into your everyday life. Book Online at Prajna Fire with immediate confirmation (https://www.prajnafire.com/book-online) FIND US on the Prajna Fire website (https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks) @prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter Sing-a-long with us on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUzGmU7c4_TJdLhG9R8IDA/videos) Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) IG: @karmayeshechodron @karmazopajigme Tania Israel (www.taniaisrael.com) Heather Stevenson (www.heatherstevenson.com) Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com) | |||
| 07 Jun 2022 | Q&A | Humility | 00:21:38 | |
Yeshe and Zopa discuss your questions from last week's Humility episode in this Contemplation interlude... Tibetan singing bowl interludes by Shivnee Ratna PRAJNA SPARKS follows the lunar calendar. Look for new episodes on new and full moon days, and contemplation interludes on the quarter moons. RESOURCES Old Path, White Clouds: Walking in the Footsteps of the Buddha, by Thich Nhat Hanh KEEP UP WITH US Follow Lama Yeshe on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/karmayeshechodron/ Hear her story on Opening Dharma Access: Listening to BIPOC Teachers https://ihr.fm/3uwqxZW And follow her in a guided practice of Tonglen Meditation & Sacred Creativity https://ihr.fm/3Lk9Kjy Join our Global Community for regular updates on Prajna Fire events with Yeshe and Zopa Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa offer individual spiritual counsel on formal Buddhist practice as well as innovative ways to integrate Buddhist perspective into your everyday life. Book Online at Prajna Fire with immediate confirmation (https://www.prajnafire.com/book-online) EMAIL US sparks@prajnafire.com FIND US on the Prajna Fire website (https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks) @prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUzGmU7c4_TJdLhG9R8IDA/videos) Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) IG: @karmayeshechodron @karmazopajigme Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com) | |||
| 20 Sep 2021 | 17 | Courage | 00:56:05 | |
Courage as a lens for understanding the second of three primary energies for traveling the Buddhist spiritual path. We tap the precision and poetry of language to unpack the significance of the tender-hearted motivation to embrace all beings in our path to liberation and omniscience. Lama Zopa guides an experiential practice beginning with shamatha (English: tranquility, or calm abiding) and leading into meditative inquiry, an insight practice from the Tibetan that invokes, instills, and integrates prajna, precise knowing. EPISODE CONTENTS 00:33 Teaching by Lama Yeshe 21:09 Conversation with Lama Yeshe and Tania Israel 43:33 Song: Courage (To the tune of “If I Only Had…” from The Wizard of Oz, Music by Harold Arlen and E. Y. Harburg) Lyrics by Tania Israel. Music and vocals by Heather Stevenson 46:50 Guided meditation by Lama Zopa Tibetan singing bowl interludes by Shivnee Ratna PRAJNA SPARKS follows the lunar calendar. Look for new episodes on full moon days. RESOURCES Join our Global Community for regular updates on Prajna Fire events with Yeshe and Zopa Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa offer individual spiritual counsel on formal Buddhist practice as well as innovative ways to integrate Buddhist perspective into your everyday life. Book Online at Prajna Fire with immediate confirmation (https://www.prajnafire.com/book-online) EMAIL US sparks@prajnafire.com FIND US on the Prajna Fire website (https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks) @prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter Sing-a-long with us on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUzGmU7c4_TJdLhG9R8IDA/videos) Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) @karmayeshechodron @karmazopajigme Tania Israel (www.taniaisrael.com) Heather Stevenson (www.heatherstevenson.com) Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com) | |||
| 09 Feb 2022 | 59 | Lojong 38 - Do not mine misfortune for titillation | 00:15:13 | |
Point 6: Healing Promises #38 - Do not mine misfortune for titillation. 59 Days of Healing, a special series based on the Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind, a first millennium Tibetan Buddhist lojong text by Kadampa Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje, where we explore one maxim each day to build a strong foundation of understanding to integrate the practice into our lives. A great way to start the year--both Western, at the beginning of the series, and Tibetan, at the end! Lama Yeshe's everyday English rendering of the 59 maxims of the Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind, including brief comments, is available for download in her ebook Heal Transform Transcend: Notes on Kadampa Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje's Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind. PRAJNA SPARKS will return to its regular lunar calendar schedule of hour long episodes after this series. Look for new episodes on full moon days. COMMENTARIES ON THE SEVEN POINTS FOR HEALING DUALISTIC MIND The Great Path of Awakening, Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Thaye, Ken McLeod, translator The Practice of Lojong: Cultivating Compassion through Training the Mind, Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche The Intelligent Heart: A Guide to the Compassionate Life, Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche Training the Mind and Cultivating Loving-Kindness, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche Start Where You Are, Pema Chodron Follow Lama Yeshe on Instagram for visual posts of her everyday English rendering of the 59 maxims with brief commentary. Stay tuned for more news on practicing #lojong with the Prajna Sparks team. RESOURCES Join our Global Community for regular updates on Prajna Fire events with Yeshe and Zopa Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa offer individual spiritual counsel on formal Buddhist practice as well as innovative ways to integrate Buddhist perspective into your everyday life. Book Online at Prajna Fire with immediate confirmation (https://www.prajnafire.com/book-online) EMAIL US sparks@prajnafire.com FIND US on the Prajna Fire website (https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks) @prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter Sing-a-long with us on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUzGmU7c4_TJdLhG9R8IDA/videos) Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) IG: @karmayeshechodron @karmazopajigme Tania Israel (www.taniaisrael.com) Heather Stevenson (www.heatherstevenson.com) Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com) | |||
| 14 Jan 2022 | 33 | Lojong 12 - Lay all the blame at the feet of the one and only culprit | 00:10:41 | |
Point 3: Turn Challenges Into Opportunities #12 Lay all the blame at the feet of the one and only culprit. 59 Days of Healing, a special series based on the Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind, a first millennium Tibetan Buddhist lojong text by Kadampa Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje, where we explore one maxim each day to build a strong foundation of understanding to integrate the practice into our lives. A great way to start the year--both Western, at the beginning of the series, and Tibetan, at the end! Lama Yeshe's everyday English rendering of the 59 maxims of the Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind, including brief comments, is available for download in her ebook Heal Transform Transcend: Notes on Kadampa Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje's Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind. PRAJNA SPARKS will return to its regular lunar calendar schedule of hour long episodes after this series. Look for new episodes on full moon days. COMMENTARIES ON THE SEVEN POINTS FOR HEALING DUALISTIC MIND The Great Path of Awakening, Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Thaye, Ken McLeod, translator The Practice of Lojong: Cultivating Compassion through Training the Mind, Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche The Intelligent Heart: A Guide to the Compassionate Life, Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche Training the Mind and Cultivating Loving-Kindness, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche Start Where You Are, Pema Chodron Follow Lama Yeshe on Instagram for visual posts of her everyday English rendering of the 59 maxims with brief commentary. Stay tuned for more news on practicing #lojong with the Prajna Sparks team. RESOURCES Join our Global Community for regular updates on Prajna Fire events with Yeshe and Zopa Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa offer individual spiritual counsel on formal Buddhist practice as well as innovative ways to integrate Buddhist perspective into your everyday life. Book Online at Prajna Fire with immediate confirmation (https://www.prajnafire.com/book-online) EMAIL US sparks@prajnafire.com FIND US on the Prajna Fire website (https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks) @prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter Sing-a-long with us on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUzGmU7c4_TJdLhG9R8IDA/videos) Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) IG: @karmayeshechodron @karmazopajigme Tania Israel (www.taniaisrael.com) Heather Stevenson (www.heatherstevenson.com) Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com) | |||
| 30 Dec 2024 | 136 | Promise | 00:42:19 | |
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 practice https://bit.ly/InspirationDark PRAJNA SPARKS follows the lunar calendar. Look for new episodes on the new moons. Tibetan singing bowl interludes by Shivnee Ratna RESOURCES Meet Lama Yeshe & Lama Zopa, in Tricycle Magazine https://bit.ly/3xRySck PUBLISHED ARTICLEShttps://www.prajnafire.com/media Prajna Fire on Substack https://prajnafire.substack.com FOLLOW US Join our Global Community for regular updates on Prajna Fire events with Yeshe and Zopa Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa offer individual spiritual counsel on formal Buddhist practice as well as innovative ways to integrate Buddhist perspective into your everyday life. Book Online at Prajna Fire with immediate confirmation (https://www.prajnafire.com/book-online) Check us out in the media https://www.prajnafire.com/media EMAIL US sparks@prajnafire.com FIND US on the Prajna Fire website (https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks) @prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUzGmU7c4_TJdLhG9R8IDA/videos) Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) IG: @karmayeshechodron @karmazopajigme Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com) | |||
| 30 Aug 2023 | 118 | Mortality | 00:27:26 | |
Lamas Yeshe and Zopa discuss death and impermanence in the context of our own Mortality, the second of the Four Thoughts that Turn the Mind to Dharma, a set of contemplations to reoirent the mind away from the deceptivenss of samsara and towards liberation and buddhahood. This is the first in a five-part series exploring each of the four thoughts and their contemplative practice, offered to support Prajna Fire's Ngondro Prep School. Read more about this dynamic four-month online program here. https://www.prajnafire.com/event-info/ngondro-prep PRAJNA SPARKS follows the lunar calendar. Look for new episodes on new and full moon days, and contemplation interludes on the quarter moons. Tibetan singing bowl interludes by Shivnee Ratna RESOURCES Meet Lama Yeshe & Lama Zopa, in Tricycle Magazine https://bit.ly/3xRySck Listen Contemplate Meditate, by Lama Yeshe, in Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Guide https://bit.ly/3ygFsus Meditative Inquiry, by Lama Yeshe, in Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Guide https://bit.ly/3xRySck FOLLOW US Join our Global Community for regular updates on Prajna Fire events with Yeshe and Zopa Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa offer individual spiritual counsel on formal Buddhist practice as well as innovative ways to integrate Buddhist perspective into your everyday life. Book Online at Prajna Fire with immediate confirmation (https://www.prajnafire.com/book-online) Check us out in the media https://www.prajnafire.com/media EMAIL US sparks@prajnafire.com FIND US on the Prajna Fire website (https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks) @prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUzGmU7c4_TJdLhG9R8IDA/videos) Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) IG: @karmayeshechodron @karmazopajigme Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com) | |||
| 22 Jan 2022 | 41 - Lojong 20 - Consistently be your own best judge | 00:09:44 | |
Point 5: Track Your Progress #20 - Consistently be your own best judge. 59 Days of Healing, a special series based on the Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind, a first millennium Tibetan Buddhist lojong text by Kadampa Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje, where we explore one maxim each day to build a strong foundation of understanding to integrate the practice into our lives. A great way to start the year--both Western, at the beginning of the series, and Tibetan, at the end! Lama Yeshe's everyday English rendering of the 59 maxims of the Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind, including brief comments, is available for download in her ebook Heal Transform Transcend: Notes on Kadampa Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje's Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind. PRAJNA SPARKS will return to its regular lunar calendar schedule of hour long episodes after this series. Look for new episodes on full moon days. COMMENTARIES ON THE SEVEN POINTS FOR HEALING DUALISTIC MIND The Great Path of Awakening, Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Thaye, Ken McLeod, translator The Practice of Lojong: Cultivating Compassion through Training the Mind, Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche The Intelligent Heart: A Guide to the Compassionate Life, Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche Training the Mind and Cultivating Loving-Kindness, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche Start Where You Are, Pema Chodron Follow Lama Yeshe on Instagram for visual posts of her everyday English rendering of the 59 maxims with brief commentary. Stay tuned for more news on practicing #lojong with the Prajna Sparks team. RESOURCES Join our Global Community for regular updates on Prajna Fire events with Yeshe and Zopa Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa offer individual spiritual counsel on formal Buddhist practice as well as innovative ways to integrate Buddhist perspective into your everyday life. Book Online at Prajna Fire with immediate confirmation (https://www.prajnafire.com/book-online) EMAIL US sparks@prajnafire.com FIND US on the Prajna Fire website (https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks) @prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter Sing-a-long with us on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUzGmU7c4_TJdLhG9R8IDA/videos) Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) IG: @karmayeshechodron @karmazopajigme Tania Israel (www.taniaisrael.com) Heather Stevenson (www.heatherstevenson.com) Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com) | |||
| 19 Jan 2022 | 38 | Lojong 17 - The crux of the key instructions is to invoke these five forces | 00:14:12 | |
Point 4: Enrich Every Moment #17 The crux of the key instructions is to invoke these five forces. 59 Days of Healing, a special series based on the Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind, a first millennium Tibetan Buddhist lojong text by Kadampa Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje, where we explore one maxim each day to build a strong foundation of understanding to integrate the practice into our lives. A great way to start the year--both Western, at the beginning of the series, and Tibetan, at the end! Lama Yeshe's everyday English rendering of the 59 maxims of the Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind, including brief comments, is available for download in her ebook Heal Transform Transcend: Notes on Kadampa Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje's Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind. PRAJNA SPARKS will return to its regular lunar calendar schedule of hour long episodes after this series. Look for new episodes on full moon days. COMMENTARIES ON THE SEVEN POINTS FOR HEALING DUALISTIC MIND The Great Path of Awakening, Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Thaye, Ken McLeod, translator The Practice of Lojong: Cultivating Compassion through Training the Mind, Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche The Intelligent Heart: A Guide to the Compassionate Life, Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche Training the Mind and Cultivating Loving-Kindness, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche Start Where You Are, Pema Chodron Follow Lama Yeshe on Instagram for visual posts of her everyday English rendering of the 59 maxims with brief commentary. Stay tuned for more news on practicing #lojong with the Prajna Sparks team. RESOURCES Join our Global Community for regular updates on Prajna Fire events with Yeshe and Zopa Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa offer individual spiritual counsel on formal Buddhist practice as well as innovative ways to integrate Buddhist perspective into your everyday life. Book Online at Prajna Fire with immediate confirmation (https://www.prajnafire.com/book-online) EMAIL US sparks@prajnafire.com FIND US on the Prajna Fire website (https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks) @prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter Sing-a-long with us on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUzGmU7c4_TJdLhG9R8IDA/videos) Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) IG: @karmayeshechodron @karmazopajigme Tania Israel (www.taniaisrael.com) Heather Stevenson (www.heatherstevenson.com) Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com) | |||
| 09 Oct 2022 | 96 | Secular Reflections: Linda Modaro on #WhyNirvanaMatters | 00:25:25 | |
Talk #3. Lamas Yeshe and Zopa talk with Linda Modaro, Spiritual Director and lead teacher at Sati Sangha, an online meditation community offering daily virtual meditation sittings and online retreats. A secular community of lay practitioners, Sati Sangha is not closely affiliated with a monastic or religious tradition. Their practice evolved out of insight (vipassana) meditation, which evolved out of Theravada Buddhism, which evolved out of early Buddhism. Reflective Meditation: cultivating kindness and curiosity in the Buddha's company, which Linda co-authored with Nelly Kaufer of Pine Street Sangha, is due out early 2023 from Twuhiri. #WhyNirvanaMatters is a series of talks with contemporary Buddhist teachers about Nirvana, peace, and its relevance in our lives and practice of Dharma. Tibetan singing bowl interludes by Shivnee Ratna PRAJNA SPARKS follows the lunar calendar. Look for new episodes on new and full moon days. RESOURCES Nirvana Episodes 4 and 93 Meet Lama Yeshe & Lama Zopa, in Tricycle Magazine https://bit.ly/3xRySck Listen Contemplate Meditate, by Lama Yeshe, in Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Guide https://bit.ly/3ygFsus Meditative Inquiry, by Lama Yeshe, in Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Guide https://bit.ly/3xRySck FOLLOW US Join our Global Community for regular updates on Prajna Fire events with Yeshe and Zopa Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa offer individual spiritual counsel on formal Buddhist practice as well as innovative ways to integrate Buddhist perspective into your everyday life. Book Online at Prajna Fire with immediate confirmation (https://www.prajnafire.com/book-online) Hear Lama Yeshe's story on Opening Dharma Access: Listening to BIPOC Teachers https://ihr.fm/3uwqxZW And follow her guided practice of Tonglen Meditation & Sacred Creativity https://ihr.fm/3Lk9Kjy EMAIL US sparks@prajnafire.com FIND US on the Prajna Fire website (https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks) @prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUzGmU7c4_TJdLhG9R8IDA/videos) Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) IG: @karmayeshechodron @karmazopajigme Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com) | |||
| 13 Jan 2022 | 32 | Lojong 11 - When troubles abound, turn adversity into your path to waking up | 00:10:09 | |
Point 3: Turn Challenges Into Opportunities #11 When troubles abound, turn adversity into your path to waking up. 59 Days of Healing, a special series based on the Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind, a first millennium Tibetan Buddhist lojong text by Kadampa Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje, where we explore one maxim each day to build a strong foundation of understanding to integrate the practice into our lives. A great way to start the year--both Western, at the beginning of the series, and Tibetan, at the end! Lama Yeshe's everyday English rendering of the 59 maxims of the Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind, including brief comments, is available for download in her ebook Heal Transform Transcend: Notes on Kadampa Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje's Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind. PRAJNA SPARKS will return to its regular lunar calendar schedule of hour long episodes after this series. Look for new episodes on full moon days. COMMENTARIES ON THE SEVEN POINTS FOR HEALING DUALISTIC MIND The Great Path of Awakening, Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Thaye, Ken McLeod, translator The Practice of Lojong: Cultivating Compassion through Training the Mind, Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche The Intelligent Heart: A Guide to the Compassionate Life, Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche Training the Mind and Cultivating Loving-Kindness, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche Start Where You Are, Pema Chodron Follow Lama Yeshe on Instagram for visual posts of her everyday English rendering of the 59 maxims with brief commentary. Stay tuned for more news on practicing #lojong with the Prajna Sparks team. RESOURCES Join our Global Community for regular updates on Prajna Fire events with Yeshe and Zopa Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa offer individual spiritual counsel on formal Buddhist practice as well as innovative ways to integrate Buddhist perspective into your everyday life. Book Online at Prajna Fire with immediate confirmation (https://www.prajnafire.com/book-online) EMAIL US sparks@prajnafire.com FIND US on the Prajna Fire website (https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks) @prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter Sing-a-long with us on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUzGmU7c4_TJdLhG9R8IDA/videos) Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) IG: @karmayeshechodron @karmazopajigme Tania Israel (www.taniaisrael.com) Heather Stevenson (www.heatherstevenson.com) Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com) | |||
| 08 Jan 2022 | 27 | Lojong 6 - Between meditation sessions, act like an illusionist | 00:13:14 | |
Point 2: Nurture the Intent to Awaken, #6. Between meditation sessions, act like an illusionist. 59 Days of Healing, a special series based on the Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind, a first millennium Tibetan Buddhist lojong text by Kadampa Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje, where we explore one maxim each day to build a strong foundation of understanding to integrate the practice into our lives. A great way to start the year--both Western, at the beginning of the series, and Tibetan, at the end! Lama Yeshe's everyday English rendering of the 59 maxims of the Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind, including brief comments, is available for download in her ebook Heal Transform Transcend: Notes on Kadampa Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje's Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind. PRAJNA SPARKS will return to its regular lunar calendar schedule of hour long episodes after this series. Look for new episodes on full moon days. COMMENTARIES ON THE SEVEN POINTS FOR HEALING DUALISTIC MIND The Great Path of Awakening, Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Thaye, Ken McLeod, translator The Practice of Lojong: Cultivating Compassion through Training the Mind, Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche The Intelligent Heart: A Guide to the Compassionate Life, Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche Training the Mind and Cultivating Loving-Kindness, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche Start Where You Are, Pema Chodron Follow Lama Yeshe on Instagram for visual posts of her everyday English rendering of the 59 maxims with brief commentary. Stay tuned for more news on practicing #lojong with the Prajna Sparks team. RESOURCES Join our Global Community for regular updates on Prajna Fire events with Yeshe and Zopa Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa offer individual spiritual counsel on formal Buddhist practice as well as innovative ways to integrate Buddhist perspective into your everyday life. Book Online at Prajna Fire with immediate confirmation (https://www.prajnafire.com/book-online) EMAIL US sparks@prajnafire.com FIND US on the Prajna Fire website (https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks) @prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter Sing-a-long with us on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUzGmU7c4_TJdLhG9R8IDA/videos) Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) IG: @karmayeshechodron @karmazopajigme Tania Israel (www.taniaisrael.com) Heather Stevenson (www.heatherstevenson.com) Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com) | |||
| 06 Jul 2022 | Q&A | Meditative Inquiry | 00:43:56 | |
Honoring His Holiness the Dalai Lama, and in offering for his longevity in excellent health, this episode was recorded live with Prajna Fire students after the practice of the Praise of the Twelve Deeds of the Buddha. Yeshe and Zopa respond to listeners discussing last week's "Meditative Inquiry" episode in this Contemplation interlude... Read more about Meditative Inquiry in its full practice context in Lama Yeshe's latest article for Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Guide https://bit.ly/3ygFsus Tibetan singing bowl interludes by Shivnee Ratna PRAJNA SPARKS follows the lunar calendar. Look for new episodes on new and full moon days, and contemplation interludes on the quarter moons. RESOURCES Join us Mondays through August 1, 2022 at 8AM US MDT for the chanting practice of the Praise of the Twelve Deeds, followed by discussion. Free and open to all. Sign up here: https://www.prajnafire.com/service-page/praise-of-the-twelve-deeds KEEP UP WITH US Follow Lama Yeshe on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/karmayeshechodron/ Hear her story on Opening Dharma Access: Listening to BIPOC Teachers https://ihr.fm/3uwqxZW And follow her in a guided practice of Tonglen Meditation & Sacred Creativity https://ihr.fm/3Lk9Kjy Join our Global Community for regular updates on Prajna Fire events with Yeshe and Zopa Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa offer individual spiritual counsel on formal Buddhist practice as well as innovative ways to integrate Buddhist perspective into your everyday life. Book Online at Prajna Fire with immediate confirmation (https://www.prajnafire.com/book-online) EMAIL US sparks@prajnafire.com FIND US on the Prajna Fire website (https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks) @prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUzGmU7c4_TJdLhG9R8IDA/videos) Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) IG: @karmayeshechodron @karmazopajigme Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com) | |||
| 11 Jan 2022 | 30 | Lojong 9 - Exercise these maxims in all your everyday activities | 00:09:41 | |
Point 2: Nurture the Intent to Awaken, #9. Exercise these maxims in all your everyday activities. 59 Days of Healing, a special series based on the Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind, a first millennium Tibetan Buddhist lojong text by Kadampa Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje, where we explore one maxim each day to build a strong foundation of understanding to integrate the practice into our lives. A great way to start the year--both Western, at the beginning of the series, and Tibetan, at the end! Lama Yeshe's everyday English rendering of the 59 maxims of the Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind, including brief comments, is available for download in her ebook Heal Transform Transcend: Notes on Kadampa Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje's Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind. PRAJNA SPARKS will return to its regular lunar calendar schedule of hour long episodes after this series. Look for new episodes on full moon days. COMMENTARIES ON THE SEVEN POINTS FOR HEALING DUALISTIC MIND The Great Path of Awakening, Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Thaye, Ken McLeod, translator The Practice of Lojong: Cultivating Compassion through Training the Mind, Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche The Intelligent Heart: A Guide to the Compassionate Life, Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche Training the Mind and Cultivating Loving-Kindness, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche Start Where You Are, Pema Chodron Follow Lama Yeshe on Instagram for visual posts of her everyday English rendering of the 59 maxims with brief commentary. Stay tuned for more news on practicing #lojong with the Prajna Sparks team. RESOURCES Join our Global Community for regular updates on Prajna Fire events with Yeshe and Zopa Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa offer individual spiritual counsel on formal Buddhist practice as well as innovative ways to integrate Buddhist perspective into your everyday life. Book Online at Prajna Fire with immediate confirmation (https://www.prajnafire.com/book-online) EMAIL US sparks@prajnafire.com FIND US on the Prajna Fire website (https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks) @prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter Sing-a-long with us on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUzGmU7c4_TJdLhG9R8IDA/videos) Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) IG: @karmayeshechodron @karmazopajigme Tania Israel (www.taniaisrael.com) Heather Stevenson (www.heatherstevenson.com) Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com) | |||
| 21 Jan 2022 | 40 | Lojong 19 - All the Buddha’s teachings have a single purpose | 00:12:45 | |
Point 5: Track Your Progress #19 - All the Buddha’s teachings have a single purpose. 59 Days of Healing, a special series based on the Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind, a first millennium Tibetan Buddhist lojong text by Kadampa Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje, where we explore one maxim each day to build a strong foundation of understanding to integrate the practice into our lives. A great way to start the year--both Western, at the beginning of the series, and Tibetan, at the end! Lama Yeshe's everyday English rendering of the 59 maxims of the Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind, including brief comments, is available for download in her ebook Heal Transform Transcend: Notes on Kadampa Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje's Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind. PRAJNA SPARKS will return to its regular lunar calendar schedule of hour long episodes after this series. Look for new episodes on full moon days. COMMENTARIES ON THE SEVEN POINTS FOR HEALING DUALISTIC MIND The Great Path of Awakening, Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Thaye, Ken McLeod, translator The Practice of Lojong: Cultivating Compassion through Training the Mind, Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche The Intelligent Heart: A Guide to the Compassionate Life, Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche Training the Mind and Cultivating Loving-Kindness, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche Start Where You Are, Pema Chodron Follow Lama Yeshe on Instagram for visual posts of her everyday English rendering of the 59 maxims with brief commentary. Stay tuned for more news on practicing #lojong with the Prajna Sparks team. RESOURCES Join our Global Community for regular updates on Prajna Fire events with Yeshe and Zopa Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa offer individual spiritual counsel on formal Buddhist practice as well as innovative ways to integrate Buddhist perspective into your everyday life. Book Online at Prajna Fire with immediate confirmation (https://www.prajnafire.com/book-online) EMAIL US sparks@prajnafire.com FIND US on the Prajna Fire website (https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks) @prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter Sing-a-long with us on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUzGmU7c4_TJdLhG9R8IDA/videos) Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) IG: @karmayeshechodron @karmazopajigme Tania Israel (www.taniaisrael.com) Heather Stevenson (www.heatherstevenson.com) Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com) | |||
| 02 Sep 2020 | 04 | Nirvana | 00:55:21 | |
Nirvana, the cessation of dukkha (in English: suffering, discontent, unsatisfying). Yeshe and Tania have a conversation about liberation. Lama Zopa leads a guided meditation presenting shamatha (English: tranquility, or calm abiding) practice and meditative inquiry, an insight practice from the Tibetan that invokes, instills, and integrates prajna, precise knowing. And Heather sings an emotional rendition of “Liberation,” to the tune of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah.” Shivnee Ratna is our Tibetan singing bowl artist. EPISODE CONTENTS 00:36 Teaching by Lama Yeshe PRAJNA SPARKS follows the lunar calendar. Look for new episodes on full moon days. Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa offer individual spiritual counsel on formal Buddhist practice as well as innovative ways to integrate Buddhist perspective into your everyday life. Online booking with immediate confirmation. EMAIL US sparks@prajnafire.com FIND US https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks @prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter Sing-a-long with us on YouTube Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) Tania Israel (www.taniaisrael.com) Heather Stevenson (www.heatherstevenson.com) Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com) | |||
| 17 Jul 2023 | 115 | Being True | 00:53:02 | |
As Prajna Sparks Podcast celebrates our third anniversary this summer, we honor three years together with you with rebroadcasts of the most popular episodes of the last three years. This Friday, close on the heels of today's new moon, Tibetan Buddhists celebrate Chokor Duchen, the holiday commemorating the Buddha's first public discourse, relating the Four Truths of Noble Beings. And this Sunday, July 23, 2021, marks Prajna Spark's podcast's third anniversary. What better topic, to cap off our rebroadcast of popular episodes from the last three years together than what it means to Be True in the context of the Buddha's teaching? Read the English translation of the Wheel of Dharma Sutra online. These six episodes together form a concise introduction to Tibetan Buddhist philosophy and practice. Revisit the highlights of Prajna Sparks and check in on how beautifully you have integrated the Buddhadharma during our time together. And most importantly, thanks so much for your support, and for listening, contemplating, and meditating along with us. RESOURCES Meet Lama Yeshe & Lama Zopa, in Tricycle Magazine https://bit.ly/3xRySck Listen Contemplate Meditate, by Lama Yeshe, in Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Guide https://bit.ly/3ygFsus Meditative Inquiry, by Lama Yeshe, in Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Guide https://bit.ly/3xRySck EMAIL US sparks@prajnafire.com FIND US on the Prajna Fire website (https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks) @prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUzGmU7c4_TJdLhG9R8IDA/videos) Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) IG: @karmayeshechodron @karmazopajigme Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa offer individual spiritual counsel on formal Buddhist practice as well as innovative ways to integrate Buddhist perspective into your everyday life. Online booking with immediate confirmation. EMAIL US sparks@prajnafire.com FIND US www.prajnafire.com/sparks @prajnasparks on Facebook and Instagram Sing-a-long with us on Youtube Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) Tania Israel (www.taniaisrael.com) Heather Stevenson (www.heatherstevenson.com) Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com) | |||
| 18 Jun 2023 | 113 | To Forgive or Not to Forgive | 01:01:14 | |
As Prajna Sparks Podcast celebrates our third anniversary this summer, we honor three years together with you with rebroadcasts of the most popular episodes of the last three years. On this Father's Day new moon weekend, we honor all the fatherly beings who raise us up into wholesome humanity by offering the fundamentals for re-envisioning forgiveness, in a practice that can serve as the pivot for life-altering evolution grounded in generosity, aspiration. Revisit the highlights of Prajna Sparks and check in on how beautifully you have integrated the Buddhadharma during our time together. And most importantly, thanks so much for your support, and for listening, contemplating, and meditating along with us. RESOURCES Meet Lama Yeshe & Lama Zopa, in Tricycle Magazine https://bit.ly/3xRySck Listen Contemplate Meditate, by Lama Yeshe, in Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Guide https://bit.ly/3ygFsus Meditative Inquiry, by Lama Yeshe, in Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Guide https://bit.ly/3xRySck EMAIL US sparks@prajnafire.com FIND US on the Prajna Fire website (https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks) @prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUzGmU7c4_TJdLhG9R8IDA/videos) Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) IG: @karmayeshechodron @karmazopajigme Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa offer individual spiritual counsel on formal Buddhist practice as well as innovative ways to integrate Buddhist perspective into your everyday life. Online booking with immediate confirmation. EMAIL US sparks@prajnafire.com FIND US www.prajnafire.com/sparks @prajnasparks on Facebook and Instagram Sing-a-long with us on Youtube Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) Tania Israel (www.taniaisrael.com) Heather Stevenson (www.heatherstevenson.com) Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com) | |||
| 27 Feb 2022 | 77 | Lojong 56 - Get over yourself | 00:12:33 | |
Point 7: Tips, #56 - Get over yourself. 59 Days of Healing, a special series based on the Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind, a first millennium Tibetan Buddhist lojong text by Kadampa Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje, where we explore one maxim each day to build a strong foundation of understanding to integrate the practice into our lives. A great way to start the year--both Western, at the beginning of the series, and Tibetan, at the end! Lama Yeshe's everyday English rendering of the 59 maxims of the Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind, including brief comments, is available for download in her ebook Heal Transform Transcend: Notes on Kadampa Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje's Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind. PRAJNA SPARKS will return to its regular lunar calendar schedule of hour long episodes after this series. Look for new episodes on full moon days. COMMENTARIES ON THE SEVEN POINTS FOR HEALING DUALISTIC MIND The Great Path of Awakening, Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Thaye, Ken McLeod, translator The Practice of Lojong: Cultivating Compassion through Training the Mind, Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche The Intelligent Heart: A Guide to the Compassionate Life, Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche Training the Mind and Cultivating Loving-Kindness, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche Start Where You Are, Pema Chodron Follow Lama Yeshe on Instagram for visual posts of her everyday English rendering of the 59 maxims with brief commentary. Stay tuned for more news on practicing #lojong with the Prajna Sparks team. RESOURCES Join our Global Community for regular updates on Prajna Fire events with Yeshe and Zopa Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa offer individual spiritual counsel on formal Buddhist practice as well as innovative ways to integrate Buddhist perspective into your everyday life. Book Online at Prajna Fire with immediate confirmation (https://www.prajnafire.com/book-online) EMAIL US sparks@prajnafire.com FIND US on the Prajna Fire website (https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks) @prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter Sing-a-long with us on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUzGmU7c4_TJdLhG9R8IDA/videos) Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) IG: @karmayeshechodron @karmazopajigme Tania Israel (www.taniaisrael.com) Heather Stevenson (www.heatherstevenson.com) Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com) | |||
| 30 Nov 2020 | 07 | Meditative stability (Samadhi) | 00:50:35 | |
Samadhi, or meditative stability in Sanskrit, and how it relates to the practice of tranquility meditation called shamatha. Lama Zopa guides an experiential practice grounded in shamatha (English: tranquility, or calm abiding). EPISODE CONTENTS 00:37 Teaching by Lama Yeshe 20:00 Conversation with Lama Yeshe and Tania Israel 36:52 Song: Oh Shamatha (to the tune of Shenandoah), lyrics by Tania Israel, vocals by Heather Stevenson 39:12 Guided meditation by Lama Zopa PRAJNA SPARKS follows the lunar calendar. Look for new episodes on full moon days. Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa offer individual spiritual counsel on formal Buddhist practice as well as innovative ways to integrate Buddhist perspective into your everyday life. Online booking with immediate confirmation. EMAIL US sparks@prajnafire.com FIND US https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks @prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter Sing-a-long with us on YouTube Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) Tania Israel (www.taniaisrael.com) Heather Stevenson (www.heatherstevenson.com) Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com) | |||
| 21 Mar 2023 | 107 | Bodhicitta: Noblest Motivation | 00:21:34 | |
Our meditation interlude accents the paramount importance of bodhicitta, the mind of awakening, that informs Mahayana practice. Midway through our series on the Paramitas, Lama Zopa leads meditative inquiry practice, using experiential analysis to explore for ourselves why bodhicitta is called "the noblest motivation." Tibetan singing bowl interludes by Shivnee Ratna PRAJNA SPARKS follows the lunar calendar. Look for new episodes on new and full moon days, and contemplation interludes on the quarter moons. RESOURCES Meet Lama Yeshe & Lama Zopa, in Tricycle Magazine https://bit.ly/3xRySck Listen Contemplate Meditate, by Lama Yeshe, in Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Guide https://bit.ly/3ygFsus Meditative Inquiry, by Lama Yeshe, in Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Guide https://bit.ly/3xRySck FOLLOW US Join our Global Community for regular updates on Prajna Fire events with Yeshe and Zopa Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa offer individual spiritual counsel on formal Buddhist practice as well as innovative ways to integrate Buddhist perspective into your everyday life. Book Online at Prajna Fire with immediate confirmation (https://www.prajnafire.com/book-online) Hear Lama Yeshe's story on Opening Dharma Access: Listening to BIPOC Teachers https://ihr.fm/3uwqxZW And follow her guided practice of Tonglen Meditation & Sacred Creativity https://ihr.fm/3Lk9Kjy EMAIL US sparks@prajnafire.com FIND US on the Prajna Fire website (https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks) @prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUzGmU7c4_TJdLhG9R8IDA/videos) Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) IG: @karmayeshechodron @karmazopajigme Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com)
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| 04 Aug 2024 | 132 | Apparent Reality | 00:44:08 | |
Beginning an exploration of how mind impacts our experience, Lamas Yeshe & Zopa describe how the Buddha's teachings describing apparent reality, one of two truths our mind's experience, and how an accurate understanding of it can facilitate a spacious opening of curiosity and presence in our lives. Contemplate quotes about apparent reality and follow a guided meditation to connect with the interdependence of each and every moment of our inward experience. For text of quotes used in the contemplation segment, visit https://www.ktgrinpoche.org/songs/verses-samadhi-illusion-texts-middle-way PRAJNA SPARKS follows the lunar calendar. Look for new episodes on the new moons. Tibetan singing bowl interludes by Shivnee Ratna RESOURCES Meet Lama Yeshe & Lama Zopa, in Tricycle Magazine https://bit.ly/3xRySck PUBLISHED ARTICLEShttps://www.prajnafire.com/media Prajna Fire on Substack https://prajnafire.substack.com FOLLOW US Join our Global Community for regular updates on Prajna Fire events with Yeshe and Zopa Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa offer individual spiritual counsel on formal Buddhist practice as well as innovative ways to integrate Buddhist perspective into your everyday life. Book Online at Prajna Fire with immediate confirmation (https://www.prajnafire.com/book-online) Check us out in the media https://www.prajnafire.com/media EMAIL US sparks@prajnafire.com FIND US on the Prajna Fire website (https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks) @prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUzGmU7c4_TJdLhG9R8IDA/videos) Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) IG: @karmayeshechodron @karmazopajigme Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com) | |||
| 22 Feb 2023 | 105 | Ethics - Shila Paramita | 00:30:48 | |
Lamas Yeshe and Zopa present the practice leading onwards toward shila paramita, the transcendent perfection of ethical sensibility, right in the midst of everyday life. Tibetan singing bowl interludes by Shivnee Ratna PRAJNA SPARKS follows the lunar calendar. Look for new episodes on new and full moon days, and contemplation interludes on the quarter moons. RESOURCES Meet Lama Yeshe & Lama Zopa, in Tricycle Magazine https://bit.ly/3xRySck Listen Contemplate Meditate, by Lama Yeshe, in Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Guide https://bit.ly/3ygFsus Meditative Inquiry, by Lama Yeshe, in Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Guide https://bit.ly/3xRySck FOLLOW US Join our Global Community for regular updates on Prajna Fire events with Yeshe and Zopa Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa offer individual spiritual counsel on formal Buddhist practice as well as innovative ways to integrate Buddhist perspective into your everyday life. Book Online at Prajna Fire with immediate confirmation (https://www.prajnafire.com/book-online) Hear Lama Yeshe's story on Opening Dharma Access: Listening to BIPOC Teachers https://ihr.fm/3uwqxZW And follow her guided practice of Tonglen Meditation & Sacred Creativity https://ihr.fm/3Lk9Kjy EMAIL US sparks@prajnafire.com FIND US on the Prajna Fire website (https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks) @prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUzGmU7c4_TJdLhG9R8IDA/videos) Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) IG: @karmayeshechodron @karmazopajigme Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com) | |||
| 15 Nov 2024 | MOMENT | Bardo | 00:10:06 | |
BARDO refers to intervals, thresholds, or interludes between important things, during which time, transition feels momentous, and opportunities for practice abound... SPARKS MOMENTS are brief dharma reflections on things of the day, including a guided meditation practice to encounter your experience of the topic directly For more on post-election responses: 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 practice https://bit.ly/InspirationDark PRAJNA SPARKS follows the lunar calendar. Look for new episodes on the new moons. Tibetan singing bowl interludes by Shivnee Ratna RESOURCES Meet Lama Yeshe & Lama Zopa, in Tricycle Magazine https://bit.ly/3xRySck PUBLISHED ARTICLEShttps://www.prajnafire.com/media Prajna Fire on Substack https://prajnafire.substack.com FOLLOW US Join our Global Community for regular updates on Prajna Fire events with Yeshe and Zopa Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa offer individual spiritual counsel on formal Buddhist practice as well as innovative ways to integrate Buddhist perspective into your everyday life. Book Online at Prajna Fire with immediate confirmation (https://www.prajnafire.com/book-online) Check us out in the media https://www.prajnafire.com/media EMAIL US sparks@prajnafire.com FIND US on the Prajna Fire website (https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks) @prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUzGmU7c4_TJdLhG9R8IDA/videos) Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) IG: @karmayeshechodron @karmazopajigme Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com) | |||
| 11 Feb 2022 | 61 | Lojong 40 - Face all trials the same way | 00:13:13 | |
Point 7: Tips #40 - Face all trials the same way. 59 Days of Healing, a special series based on the Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind, a first millennium Tibetan Buddhist lojong text by Kadampa Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje, where we explore one maxim each day to build a strong foundation of understanding to integrate the practice into our lives. A great way to start the year--both Western, at the beginning of the series, and Tibetan, at the end! Lama Yeshe's everyday English rendering of the 59 maxims of the Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind, including brief comments, is available for download in her ebook Heal Transform Transcend: Notes on Kadampa Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje's Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind. PRAJNA SPARKS will return to its regular lunar calendar schedule of hour long episodes after this series. Look for new episodes on full moon days. COMMENTARIES ON THE SEVEN POINTS FOR HEALING DUALISTIC MIND The Great Path of Awakening, Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Thaye, Ken McLeod, translator The Practice of Lojong: Cultivating Compassion through Training the Mind, Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche The Intelligent Heart: A Guide to the Compassionate Life, Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche Training the Mind and Cultivating Loving-Kindness, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche Start Where You Are, Pema Chodron Follow Lama Yeshe on Instagram for visual posts of her everyday English rendering of the 59 maxims with brief commentary. Stay tuned for more news on practicing #lojong with the Prajna Sparks team. RESOURCES Join our Global Community for regular updates on Prajna Fire events with Yeshe and Zopa Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa offer individual spiritual counsel on formal Buddhist practice as well as innovative ways to integrate Buddhist perspective into your everyday life. Book Online at Prajna Fire with immediate confirmation (https://www.prajnafire.com/book-online) EMAIL US sparks@prajnafire.com FIND US on the Prajna Fire website (https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks) @prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter Sing-a-long with us on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUzGmU7c4_TJdLhG9R8IDA/videos) Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) IG: @karmayeshechodron @karmazopajigme Tania Israel (www.taniaisrael.com) Heather Stevenson (www.heatherstevenson.com) Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com) | |||
| 07 Feb 2022 | 57 | Lojong 36 - Do not be passive aggressive | 00:11:34 | |
Point 6: Healing Promises #36 - Do not be passive aggressive. 59 Days of Healing, a special series based on the Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind, a first millennium Tibetan Buddhist lojong text by Kadampa Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje, where we explore one maxim each day to build a strong foundation of understanding to integrate the practice into our lives. A great way to start the year--both Western, at the beginning of the series, and Tibetan, at the end! Lama Yeshe's everyday English rendering of the 59 maxims of the Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind, including brief comments, is available for download in her ebook Heal Transform Transcend: Notes on Kadampa Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje's Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind. PRAJNA SPARKS will return to its regular lunar calendar schedule of hour long episodes after this series. Look for new episodes on full moon days. COMMENTARIES ON THE SEVEN POINTS FOR HEALING DUALISTIC MIND The Great Path of Awakening, Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Thaye, Ken McLeod, translator The Practice of Lojong: Cultivating Compassion through Training the Mind, Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche The Intelligent Heart: A Guide to the Compassionate Life, Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche Training the Mind and Cultivating Loving-Kindness, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche Start Where You Are, Pema Chodron Follow Lama Yeshe on Instagram for visual posts of her everyday English rendering of the 59 maxims with brief commentary. Stay tuned for more news on practicing #lojong with the Prajna Sparks team. RESOURCES Join our Global Community for regular updates on Prajna Fire events with Yeshe and Zopa Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa offer individual spiritual counsel on formal Buddhist practice as well as innovative ways to integrate Buddhist perspective into your everyday life. Book Online at Prajna Fire with immediate confirmation (https://www.prajnafire.com/book-online) EMAIL US sparks@prajnafire.com FIND US on the Prajna Fire website (https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks) @prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter Sing-a-long with us on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUzGmU7c4_TJdLhG9R8IDA/videos) Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) IG: @karmayeshechodron @karmazopajigme Tania Israel (www.taniaisrael.com) Heather Stevenson (www.heatherstevenson.com) Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com) | |||
| 19 Feb 2022 | 69 | Lojong 48 - Train across the full range, without bias | 00:13:14 | |
Point 7: Tips, #48 - Train across the full range, without bias—the entirety is vital to far-reaching and profound mastery. 59 Days of Healing, a special series based on the Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind, a first millennium Tibetan Buddhist lojong text by Kadampa Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje, where we explore one maxim each day to build a strong foundation of understanding to integrate the practice into our lives. A great way to start the year--both Western, at the beginning of the series, and Tibetan, at the end! Lama Yeshe's everyday English rendering of the 59 maxims of the Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind, including brief comments, is available for download in her ebook Heal Transform Transcend: Notes on Kadampa Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje's Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind. PRAJNA SPARKS will return to its regular lunar calendar schedule of hour long episodes after this series. Look for new episodes on full moon days. COMMENTARIES ON THE SEVEN POINTS FOR HEALING DUALISTIC MIND The Great Path of Awakening, Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Thaye, Ken McLeod, translator The Practice of Lojong: Cultivating Compassion through Training the Mind, Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche The Intelligent Heart: A Guide to the Compassionate Life, Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche Training the Mind and Cultivating Loving-Kindness, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche Start Where You Are, Pema Chodron Follow Lama Yeshe on Instagram for visual posts of her everyday English rendering of the 59 maxims with brief commentary. Stay tuned for more news on practicing #lojong with the Prajna Sparks team. RESOURCES Join our Global Community for regular updates on Prajna Fire events with Yeshe and Zopa Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa offer individual spiritual counsel on formal Buddhist practice as well as innovative ways to integrate Buddhist perspective into your everyday life. Book Online at Prajna Fire with immediate confirmation (https://www.prajnafire.com/book-online) EMAIL US sparks@prajnafire.com FIND US on the Prajna Fire website (https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks) @prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter Sing-a-long with us on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUzGmU7c4_TJdLhG9R8IDA/videos) Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) IG: @karmayeshechodron @karmazopajigme Tania Israel (www.taniaisrael.com) Heather Stevenson (www.heatherstevenson.com) Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com) | |||
| 11 Mar 2024 | 127 | Nonconceptuality | 00:37:04 | |
Exploring the mind in Mahamudra practice brings us increased intimacy with its qualities. Lamas Yeshe & Zopa describe the nonconceptual character of mind, and its empty essence, as well as our thought, feeling, sensory and other experiences. Contemplate quotes about mind's nonconceptuality and follow a guided meditation to connect with raw sense impressions free of conceptual overlays. PRAJNA SPARKS follows the lunar calendar. Look for new episodes on the new moons. Tibetan singing bowl interludes by Shivnee Ratna RESOURCES Meet Lama Yeshe & Lama Zopa, in Tricycle Magazine https://bit.ly/3xRySck PUBLISHED ARTICLEShttps://www.prajnafire.com/media https://prajnafire.substack.com FOLLOW US Join our Global Community for regular updates on Prajna Fire events with Yeshe and Zopa Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa offer individual spiritual counsel on formal Buddhist practice as well as innovative ways to integrate Buddhist perspective into your everyday life. Book Online at Prajna Fire with immediate confirmation (https://www.prajnafire.com/book-online) Check us out in the media https://www.prajnafire.com/media EMAIL US sparks@prajnafire.com FIND US on the Prajna Fire website (https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks) @prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUzGmU7c4_TJdLhG9R8IDA/videos) Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) IG: @karmayeshechodron @karmazopajigme Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com) | |||
| 22 Feb 2022 | 72 | Lojong 51 - Here and now, practice what matters | 00:09:07 | |
Point 7: Tips, #51 - Here and now, practice what matters. 59 Days of Healing, a special series based on the Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind, a first millennium Tibetan Buddhist lojong text by Kadampa Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje, where we explore one maxim each day to build a strong foundation of understanding to integrate the practice into our lives. A great way to start the year--both Western, at the beginning of the series, and Tibetan, at the end! Lama Yeshe's everyday English rendering of the 59 maxims of the Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind, including brief comments, is available for download in her ebook Heal Transform Transcend: Notes on Kadampa Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje's Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind. PRAJNA SPARKS will return to its regular lunar calendar schedule of hour long episodes after this series. Look for new episodes on full moon days. COMMENTARIES ON THE SEVEN POINTS FOR HEALING DUALISTIC MIND The Great Path of Awakening, Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Thaye, Ken McLeod, translator The Practice of Lojong: Cultivating Compassion through Training the Mind, Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche The Intelligent Heart: A Guide to the Compassionate Life, Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche Training the Mind and Cultivating Loving-Kindness, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche Start Where You Are, Pema Chodron Follow Lama Yeshe on Instagram for visual posts of her everyday English rendering of the 59 maxims with brief commentary. Stay tuned for more news on practicing #lojong with the Prajna Sparks team. RESOURCES Join our Global Community for regular updates on Prajna Fire events with Yeshe and Zopa Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa offer individual spiritual counsel on formal Buddhist practice as well as innovative ways to integrate Buddhist perspective into your everyday life. Book Online at Prajna Fire with immediate confirmation (https://www.prajnafire.com/book-online) EMAIL US sparks@prajnafire.com FIND US on the Prajna Fire website (https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks) @prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter Sing-a-long with us on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUzGmU7c4_TJdLhG9R8IDA/videos) Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) IG: @karmayeshechodron @karmazopajigme Tania Israel (www.taniaisrael.com) Heather Stevenson (www.heatherstevenson.com) Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com) | |||
| 10 Feb 2022 | 60 | Lojong 39 - One thing makes everything sacred | 00:11:00 | |
Point 7: Tips #39 - One thing makes everything sacred. 59 Days of Healing, a special series based on the Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind, a first millennium Tibetan Buddhist lojong text by Kadampa Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje, where we explore one maxim each day to build a strong foundation of understanding to integrate the practice into our lives. A great way to start the year--both Western, at the beginning of the series, and Tibetan, at the end! Lama Yeshe's everyday English rendering of the 59 maxims of the Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind, including brief comments, is available for download in her ebook Heal Transform Transcend: Notes on Kadampa Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje's Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind. PRAJNA SPARKS will return to its regular lunar calendar schedule of hour long episodes after this series. Look for new episodes on full moon days. COMMENTARIES ON THE SEVEN POINTS FOR HEALING DUALISTIC MIND The Great Path of Awakening, Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Thaye, Ken McLeod, translator The Practice of Lojong: Cultivating Compassion through Training the Mind, Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche The Intelligent Heart: A Guide to the Compassionate Life, Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche Training the Mind and Cultivating Loving-Kindness, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche Start Where You Are, Pema Chodron Follow Lama Yeshe on Instagram for visual posts of her everyday English rendering of the 59 maxims with brief commentary. Stay tuned for more news on practicing #lojong with the Prajna Sparks team. RESOURCES Join our Global Community for regular updates on Prajna Fire events with Yeshe and Zopa Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa offer individual spiritual counsel on formal Buddhist practice as well as innovative ways to integrate Buddhist perspective into your everyday life. Book Online at Prajna Fire with immediate confirmation (https://www.prajnafire.com/book-online) EMAIL US sparks@prajnafire.com FIND US on the Prajna Fire website (https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks) @prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter Sing-a-long with us on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUzGmU7c4_TJdLhG9R8IDA/videos) Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) IG: @karmayeshechodron @karmazopajigme Tania Israel (www.taniaisrael.com) Heather Stevenson (www.heatherstevenson.com) Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com) | |||
| 29 Jan 2025 | 137 | View | 00:37:33 | |
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 Conduct. 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 practice https://bit.ly/InspirationDark PRAJNA SPARKS follows the lunar calendar. Look for new episodes on the new moons. Tibetan singing bowl interludes by Shivnee Ratna RESOURCES Meet Lama Yeshe & Lama Zopa, in Tricycle Magazine https://bit.ly/3xRySck PUBLISHED ARTICLEShttps://www.prajnafire.com/media Prajna Fire on Substack https://prajnafire.substack.com FOLLOW US Join our Global Community for regular updates on Prajna Fire events with Yeshe and Zopa Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa offer individual spiritual counsel on formal Buddhist practice as well as innovative ways to integrate Buddhist perspective into your everyday life. Book Online at Prajna Fire with immediate confirmation (https://www.prajnafire.com/book-online) Check us out in the media https://www.prajnafire.com/media EMAIL US sparks@prajnafire.com FIND US on the Prajna Fire website (https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks) @prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUzGmU7c4_TJdLhG9R8IDA/videos) Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) IG: @karmayeshechodron @karmazopajigme Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com) | |||
| 01 Dec 2024 | REPLAY | Listen Contemplate Meditate | 00:53:29 | |
This month we replay Listen Contemplate Meditate, our first and still most popular episode, because we know from experience that we can never hear enough about the integrative dharma practice built on these three components. More resources for the practice available at www.prajnafire.com/media Lama Yeshe teaches about listening, contemplation, and meditation, the foundations of integrative practice; and you learn why the podcast is called Prajna Sparks. Tania Israel joins in for contemplation discussion, then Heather Stevenson sings a song with lyrics Tania wrote as part of her contemplative practice. Lama Zopa leads a guided practice on shamatha, tranquility meditation. Tibetan singing bowl interludes composed and performed by Shivnee Ratna. EPISODE CONTENTS 00:27 Teaching by Lama Yeshe 30:00 Conversation with Lama Yeshe and Tania Israel 45:00 Song (to the tune of "Edelweiss" from The Sound of Music) : lyrics by Tania Israel, vocals by Heather Stevenson 47:00 Meditation by Lama Zopa PRAJNA SPARKS follows the lunar calendar. Look for new episodes on the new moons (USA Mountain Time). EMAIL US sparks@prajnafire.com FIND US www.prajnafire.com/sparks @prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and bluesky.social Sing-a-long with us on Youtube Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) Tania Israel (www.taniaisrael.com) Heather Stevenson (www.heatherstevenson.com) Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com) | |||
| 18 Mar 2022 | 82 | Transcend | 00:45:06 | |
What happens after we heal? After we transform? A good life. A flourishing existence. Something to leave behind us for others. Isn't that enough? The vision of the Buddha, the consummate physician, is not limited to these worldly objectives. The Buddha, in his wise, fearless love, wants nothing less for us than all there is; than all we are. Beyond healing, beyond transforming, lies transcendence of all the limited ways we perceive ourselves, life, the world, reality itself. Lama Zopa guides a meditation of shamatha (English: tranquility, or calm abiding) and meditative inquiry, an insight practice from the Tibetan that invokes, instills, and integrates prajna, precise knowing. EPISODE CONTENTS 00:40 Teaching by Lama Yeshe 20:09 Conversation with Lama Yeshe and Tania Israel 29:07 Song: Rise Up, Transcend (to the tune of ““Rise Up” Music by Ben Barnes, Lyrics by Tania Israel. Piano and vocals by Heather Stevenson. 33:00 Guided meditation by Lama Zopa Tibetan singing bowl interludes by Shivnee Ratna PRAJNA SPARKS follows the lunar calendar. Look for new episodes on full moon days. LAMA YESHE Follow Lama Yeshe on Instagram Hear her story on Opening Dharma Access: Listening to BIPOC Teachers And follow a guided practice of Tonglen Meditation & Sacred Creativity RESOURCES Join our Global Community for regular updates on Prajna Fire events with Yeshe and Zopa Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa offer individual spiritual counsel on formal Buddhist practice as well as innovative ways to integrate Buddhist perspective into your everyday life. Book Online at Prajna Fire with immediate confirmation (https://www.prajnafire.com/book-online) EMAIL US sparks@prajnafire.com FIND US on the Prajna Fire website (https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks) @prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter Sing-a-long with us on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUzGmU7c4_TJdLhG9R8IDA/videos) Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) IG: @karmayeshechodron @karmazopajigme Tania Israel (www.taniaisrael.com) Heather Stevenson (www.heatherstevenson.com) Antara Hunter (www.antaratunes.com) Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com) | |||
| 08 May 2022 | Q&A | Samsara | 00:20:36 | |
Yeshe and Zopa discuss your questions from the Samsara episode in this Contemplation interlude... Tibetan singing bowl interludes by Shivnee Ratna PRAJNA SPARKS follows the lunar calendar. Look for new episodes on new and full moon days, and contemplation interludes on the quarter moons. RESOURCES Read about A Life of Beauty in this article from our online journal, Prajna Rising: https://www.prajnafire.com/post/a-life-of-beauty Register for the Living Beautifully practice intensive with Yeshe here: https://www.prajnafire.com/event-info/living-beautifully KEEP UP WITH US Follow Lama Yeshe on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/karmayeshechodron/ Hear her story on Opening Dharma Access: Listening to BIPOC Teachers https://ihr.fm/3uwqxZW And follow her in a guided practice of Tonglen Meditation & Sacred Creativity https://ihr.fm/3Lk9Kjy Join our Global Community for regular updates on Prajna Fire events with Yeshe and Zopa Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa offer individual spiritual counsel on formal Buddhist practice as well as innovative ways to integrate Buddhist perspective into your everyday life. Book Online at Prajna Fire with immediate confirmation (https://www.prajnafire.com/book-online) EMAIL US sparks@prajnafire.com FIND US on the Prajna Fire website (https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks) @prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUzGmU7c4_TJdLhG9R8IDA/videos) Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) IG: @karmayeshechodron @karmazopajigme Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com) | |||
| 27 Apr 2021 | 12 | Dreams & Illusions | 00:57:21 | |
How seeing life as like a dream and an illusion can help us begin to emerge from a pandemic with freshness, renewal, and aspiration. Lama Zopa guides an experiential practice beginning with shamatha (English: tranquility, or calm abiding) and leading into meditative inquiry, an insight practice from the Tibetan that invokes, instills, and integrates prajna, precise knowing. EPISODE CONTENTS 00:36 Teaching by Lama Yeshe PRAJNA SPARKS follows the lunar calendar. Look for new episodes on full moon days. RESOURCES Join our Global Community for regular updates on Prajna Fire events with Yeshe and Zopa Sacred Creativity begins May 7, 2021 at noon USA Mountain Time, for six weeks of guided meditation and experiential inquiry, as well as dynamic activities such as readings, contemplative arts, journaling, and dialogue in small and large groups to foster an inner environment of spiritual discovery. Creating Sanctuary, a Prajna Rising online journal article about cultivating a habit of regular meditation. Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa offer individual spiritual counsel on formal Buddhist practice as well as innovative ways to integrate Buddhist perspective into your everyday life. Book Online at Prajna Fire with immediate confirmation (https://www.prajnafire.com/book-online) EMAIL US sparks@prajnafire.com FIND US https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks @prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter Sing-a-long with us on YouTube Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) Tania Israel (www.taniaisrael.com) Heather Stevenson (www.heatherstevenson.com) Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com) | |||
| 31 Oct 2020 | 06 | Ethical Discipline (Shila) | 00:53:01 | |
Ethical discipline in Buddhist thought, including the ten virtues and ten nonvirtues. Lama Zopa guides an experiential practice of meditative inquiry, an insight practice from the Tibetan that invokes, instills, and integrates prajna, precise knowing, based in shamatha, tranquility meditation. EPISODE CONTENTS 00:35 Teaching by Lama Yeshe 19:55 Conversation with Lama Yeshe and Tania Israel 39:25 Song: Ten Virtues and Nonvirtues (to the tune of There Are Worse Things I Could Do from Grease), lyrics by Tania Israel, vocals by Heather Stevenson 41:49 Guided meditation by Lama Zopa PRAJNA SPARKS follows the lunar calendar. Look for new episodes on full moon days. Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa offer individual spiritual counsel on formal Buddhist practice as well as innovative ways to integrate Buddhist perspective into your everyday life. Online booking with immediate confirmation. EMAIL US sparks@prajnafire.com FIND US https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks @prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter Sing-a-long with us on YouTube Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) Tania Israel (www.taniaisrael.com) Heather Stevenson (www.heatherstevenson.com) Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com) | |||
| 23 Nov 2022 | 99 | Joy & Sorrow: Lama Maitri on #WhyNirvanaMatters | 00:27:18 | |
Talk #6. Lamas Yeshe and Zopa talk with Lama Maitri, a teacher and translator of Tibetan Buddhism in the Shangpa Kagyu lineage, having completed her three year cloistered meditation retreat at Dag Shang Kagyu in Huesca, Spain in 2013. She has a Bachelor's Degree in Buddhist Studies and Himalayan Languages from Rangjung Yeshe Institute, Kathmandu University, Nepal. Lama Maitri translates Tibetan Buddhist teachings from Tibetan and English to Spanish for various teachers around the world. Lama Maitri currently serves as translator at Bokar Thubten Ling, Ibiza, Spain. http://kagyuthubtenling.es/ Join Yeshe, Zopa, and Maitri at the Heart Sutra Explained teachings by Drupon Khenpo Lodro Namgyal, November 17 to December 11, 2022: https://rigpedorjemontreal.org/en/le-sutra-du-coeur #WhyNirvanaMatters is a series of talks with contemporary Buddhist teachers about Nirvana, peace, and its relevance in our lives and practice of Dharma. Tibetan singing bowl interludes by Shivnee Ratna PRAJNA SPARKS follows the lunar calendar. Look for new episodes on new and full moon days. RESOURCES Nirvana Episodes 4 and 93 Meet Lama Yeshe & Lama Zopa, in Tricycle Magazine https://bit.ly/3xRySck Listen Contemplate Meditate, by Lama Yeshe, in Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Guide https://bit.ly/3ygFsus Meditative Inquiry, by Lama Yeshe, in Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Guide https://bit.ly/3xRySck FOLLOW US Join our Global Community for regular updates on Prajna Fire events with Yeshe and Zopa Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa offer individual spiritual counsel on formal Buddhist practice as well as innovative ways to integrate Buddhist perspective into your everyday life. Book Online at Prajna Fire with immediate confirmation (https://www.prajnafire.com/book-online) Hear Lama Yeshe's story on Opening Dharma Access: Listening to BIPOC Teachers https://ihr.fm/3uwqxZW And follow her guided practice of Tonglen Meditation & Sacred Creativity https://ihr.fm/3Lk9Kjy EMAIL US sparks@prajnafire.com FIND US on the Prajna Fire website (https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks) @prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUzGmU7c4_TJdLhG9R8IDA/videos) Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) IG: @karmayeshechodron @karmazopajigme Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com) | |||
| 25 Jan 2022 | 44 | Lojong 23 - Always follow three basic principles | 00:10:39 | |
Point 6: Healing Promises #23 - Always follow three basic principles. 59 Days of Healing, a special series based on the Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind, a first millennium Tibetan Buddhist lojong text by Kadampa Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje, where we explore one maxim each day to build a strong foundation of understanding to integrate the practice into our lives. A great way to start the year--both Western, at the beginning of the series, and Tibetan, at the end! Lama Yeshe's everyday English rendering of the 59 maxims of the Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind, including brief comments, is available for download in her ebook Heal Transform Transcend: Notes on Kadampa Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje's Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind. PRAJNA SPARKS will return to its regular lunar calendar schedule of hour long episodes after this series. Look for new episodes on full moon days. COMMENTARIES ON THE SEVEN POINTS FOR HEALING DUALISTIC MIND The Great Path of Awakening, Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Thaye, Ken McLeod, translator The Practice of Lojong: Cultivating Compassion through Training the Mind, Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche The Intelligent Heart: A Guide to the Compassionate Life, Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche Training the Mind and Cultivating Loving-Kindness, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche Start Where You Are, Pema Chodron Follow Lama Yeshe on Instagram for visual posts of her everyday English rendering of the 59 maxims with brief commentary. Stay tuned for more news on practicing #lojong with the Prajna Sparks team. RESOURCES Join our Global Community for regular updates on Prajna Fire events with Yeshe and Zopa Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa offer individual spiritual counsel on formal Buddhist practice as well as innovative ways to integrate Buddhist perspective into your everyday life. Book Online at Prajna Fire with immediate confirmation (https://www.prajnafire.com/book-online) EMAIL US sparks@prajnafire.com FIND US on the Prajna Fire website (https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks) @prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter Sing-a-long with us on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUzGmU7c4_TJdLhG9R8IDA/videos) Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) IG: @karmayeshechodron @karmazopajigme Tania Israel (www.taniaisrael.com) Heather Stevenson (www.heatherstevenson.com) Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com) | |||
| 03 Mar 2022 | 81 | Lojong Closing - 59 Days of Healing Series | 00:19:13 | |
Throughout 59 Days of Healing, our special series based on the Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind, a first millennium Tibetan Buddhist lojong text by Kadampa Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje, Prajna Sparks explores one maxim each day to build a strong foundation of understanding to integrate the practice into our lives. A great way to start the year--both Western, at the beginning of the series, and Tibetan, at the end! Lama Yeshe's everyday English rendering of the 59 maxims of the Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind, including brief comments, is available for download in her ebook Heal Transform Transcend: Notes on Kadampa Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje's Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind. Song: 59 Lojong Maxims (to the tune of Fifty Ways to Leave Your Lover, by Paul Simon), lyrics by Tania Israel, piano and vocals by Heather Stevenson PRAJNA SPARKS will return to its regular lunar calendar schedule of hour long episodes after this series. Look for new episodes on full moon days beginning on March 18, 2022. COMMENTARIES ON THE SEVEN POINTS FOR HEALING DUALISTIC MIND The Great Path of Awakening, Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Thaye, Ken McLeod, translator The Practice of Lojong: Cultivating Compassion through Training the Mind, Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche The Intelligent Heart: A Guide to the Compassionate Life, Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche Training the Mind and Cultivating Loving-Kindness, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche Start Where You Are, Pema Chodron Follow Lama Yeshe on Instagram for more posts on Tibetan Buddhist texts and practice in the modern world. Stay tuned for more news on practicing #lojong with the Prajna Sparks team. RESOURCES Join our Global Community for regular updates on Prajna Fire events with Yeshe and Zopa Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa offer individual spiritual counsel on formal Buddhist practice as well as innovative ways to integrate Buddhist perspective into your everyday life. Book Online at Prajna Fire with immediate confirmation (https://www.prajnafire.com/book-online) FIND US on the Prajna Fire website (https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks) @prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter Sing-a-long with us on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUzGmU7c4_TJdLhG9R8IDA/videos) Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) IG: @karmayeshechodron @karmazopajigme Tania Israel (www.taniaisrael.com) Heather Stevenson (www.heatherstevenson.com) Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com) | |||
| 29 Dec 2020 | 08 | Precise knowing (Prajna) | 00:46:38 | |
Prajna, or precise knowing in Sanskrit: what is it, how does Buddhist practice cultivate it, and how does it relate to transcending insight. Lama Zopa guides an experiential practice beginning with shamatha (English: tranquility, or calm abiding) and leading into meditative inquiry, an insight practice from the Tibetan that invokes, instills, and integrates prajna, precise knowing. EPISODE CONTENTS 00:38 Teaching by Lama Yeshe 13:12 Conversation with Lama Yeshe and Tania Israel 30:02 Song: I Can't Turn Back My Mind (to the tune of If I Could Turn Back Time), lyrics by Tania Israel, vocals by Heather Stevenson 38:55 Guided meditation by Lama Zopa PRAJNA SPARKS follows the lunar calendar. Look for new episodes on full moon days. Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa offer individual spiritual counsel on formal Buddhist practice as well as innovative ways to integrate Buddhist perspective into your everyday life. Online booking with immediate confirmation. EMAIL US sparks@prajnafire.com FIND US https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks @prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter Sing-a-long with us on YouTube Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) Tania Israel (www.taniaisrael.com) Heather Stevenson (www.heatherstevenson.com) Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com) | |||
| 05 Jul 2024 | 131 | Beyond Meditation | 00:42:14 | |
Rounding off this series on the Four Yogas of Mahamudra, Lamas Yeshe & Zopa describe how the Mahamudra attainments of one-pointedness, nonconceptuality, one taste, and nonmeditation can inform and guide our shamatha meditation practice here and now, whatever our level of experience. View our latest newsletter at https://prajnafire.substack.com/p/embodying-mind?r=1i7u42 Mahamudra, the signature practice of the Kagyu lineage, is known for its spare, direct, and swift approach. Yet this clarity and simplicity can bring new direction and vivacity to the seminal practice of shamatha, in which all Buddhist spiritual experience and realization is grounded. Contemplate quotes about the Four Yogas and follow a guided meditation to connect with the essence of all experience, inseparable from experience and experiencer. PRAJNA SPARKS follows the lunar calendar. Look for new episodes on the new moons. Tibetan singing bowl interludes by Shivnee Ratna RESOURCES Meet Lama Yeshe & Lama Zopa, in Tricycle Magazine https://bit.ly/3xRySck PUBLISHED ARTICLEShttps://www.prajnafire.com/media Prajna Fire on Substack https://prajnafire.substack.com FOLLOW US Join our Global Community for regular updates on Prajna Fire events with Yeshe and Zopa Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa offer individual spiritual counsel on formal Buddhist practice as well as innovative ways to integrate Buddhist perspective into your everyday life. Book Online at Prajna Fire with immediate confirmation (https://www.prajnafire.com/book-online) Check us out in the media https://www.prajnafire.com/media EMAIL US sparks@prajnafire.com FIND US on the Prajna Fire website (https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks) @prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUzGmU7c4_TJdLhG9R8IDA/videos) Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) IG: @karmayeshechodron @karmazopajigme Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com) | |||
| 23 Dec 2022 | 101 | Awakening Together: Rinsen Roshi and Do'on Sensei on #WhyNirvanaMatters | 00:32:24 | |
Talk #8. Lamas Yeshe and Zopa talk with Jay Rinsen Weik Roshi and Karein Weik Do'on Sensei, teachers and co-founders of Great Heartland Sangha, Buddhist Temple of Toledo and and the Drinking Gourd Institute. Roshi is the Abbot of the Great Heartland Sangha. He received full Dharma Transmission as a recognized Zen teacher by Rev. James Myoun Ford Roshi in the Rinzai Koan Introspection and Soto Zen traditions. Karen Do’on Weik Osho is a Soto Zen priest who received Denkai transmission from Rinsen in August 2015. Visit the Buddhist Temple of Toledo website at https://www.buddhisttempleoftoledo.org and their Podcast website at https://thedrinkinggourd.org/ #WhyNirvanaMatters is a series of talks with contemporary Buddhist teachers about Nirvana, peace, and its relevance in our lives and practice of Dharma. Tibetan singing bowl interludes by Shivnee Ratna PRAJNA SPARKS follows the lunar calendar. Look for new episodes on new and full moon days. RESOURCES Nirvana Episodes 4 and 93 Meet Lama Yeshe & Lama Zopa, in Tricycle Magazine https://bit.ly/3xRySck Listen Contemplate Meditate, by Lama Yeshe, in Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Guide https://bit.ly/3ygFsus Meditative Inquiry, by Lama Yeshe, in Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Guide https://bit.ly/3xRySck FOLLOW US Join our Global Community for regular updates on Prajna Fire events with Yeshe and Zopa Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa offer individual spiritual counsel on formal Buddhist practice as well as innovative ways to integrate Buddhist perspective into your everyday life. Book Online at Prajna Fire with immediate confirmation (https://www.prajnafire.com/book-online) Hear Lama Yeshe's story on Opening Dharma Access: Listening to BIPOC Teachers https://ihr.fm/3uwqxZW And follow her guided practice of Tonglen Meditation & Sacred Creativity https://ihr.fm/3Lk9Kjy EMAIL US sparks@prajnafire.com FIND US on the Prajna Fire website (https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks) @prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUzGmU7c4_TJdLhG9R8IDA/videos) Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) IG: @karmayeshechodron @karmazopajigme Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com) | |||
| 01 Apr 2022 | 83 | Life & Death | 00:36:53 | |
What is life? How can we live it to the fullest? In this episode we explore how to understand birth, life, death...and beyond, from a multidimensional, rather than dualistic perspective, and learn how ironically, the consistent recollection of our own mortality supports, nourishes, and enhances life. Lama Zopa guides a meditation of shamatha (English: tranquility, or calm abiding) and meditative inquiry, an insight practice from the Tibetan that invokes, instills, and integrates prajna, precise knowing. EPISODE CONTENTS 00:42 Teaching by Lama Yeshe 21:43 Contemplation 24:31 Guided meditation by Lama Zopa Tibetan singing bowl interludes by Shivnee Ratna PRAJNA SPARKS follows the lunar calendar. Look for new episodes on new and full moon days. LAMA YESHE Follow Lama Yeshe on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/karmayeshechodron/ Hear her story on Opening Dharma Access: Listening to BIPOC Teachers https://ihr.fm/3uwqxZW And follow her in a guided practice of Tonglen Meditation & Sacred Creativity https://ihr.fm/3Lk9Kjy RESOURCES Join our Global Community for regular updates on Prajna Fire events with Yeshe and Zopa Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa offer individual spiritual counsel on formal Buddhist practice as well as innovative ways to integrate Buddhist perspective into your everyday life. Book Online at Prajna Fire with immediate confirmation (https://www.prajnafire.com/book-online) EMAIL US sparks@prajnafire.com FIND US on the Prajna Fire website (https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks) @prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUzGmU7c4_TJdLhG9R8IDA/videos) Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) IG: @karmayeshechodron @karmazopajigme Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com) | |||
| 14 Dec 2020 | BONUS | Dharma in Action: Political Divide | 00:18:04 | |
How does Dharma help us in understanding and navigating sociocultural divisions among individuals? Yeshe and Tania have a conversation about the intersection of Buddhism and the political divide. EPISODE CONTENTS 00:20 Conversation with Lama Yeshe and Tania Israel No Song or Guided Meditation in this bonus episode. PRAJNA SPARKS follows the lunar calendar. Look for new episodes on full moon days. EMAIL US sparks@prajnafire.com FIND US https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks @prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter Sing-a-long with us on YouTube Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) Tania Israel (www.taniaisrael.com) Heather Stevenson (www.heatherstevenson.com) Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com) | |||
| 12 Aug 2022 | 92 | Empty & Nonself | 00:41:03 | |
Third of a four part series on the Four Hallmarks of the Buddha's teachings, this episode explores emptiness and nonself in our immediate experience, through the dynamic practice of Meditative Inquiry. A vital element of healing and transforming in Tibetan Buddhist practice, meditative inquiry is also the heart of the Buddha's contemplative technology for cultivating view progressively, all the way to transcending views altogether. CONTENTS
Tibetan singing bowl interludes by Shivnee Ratna PRAJNA SPARKS follows the lunar calendar. Look for new episodes on new and full moon days, and contemplation interludes on the quarter moons. RESOURCES Prajna SparksEpisode 89 and 89 Q&A introduce Meditative Inquiry Listen Contemplate Meditate, by Lama Yeshe, in Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Guide https://bit.ly/3ygFsus Meditative Inquiry, by Lama Yeshe, in Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Guide https://bit.ly/3xRySck Meet Lama Yeshe & Lama Zopa, in Tricycle Magazine https://bit.ly/3xRySck Join us live on Zoom every Monday at 8AM US Mountain time for a chanting practice of the Praise of the Twelve Deeds of the Buddha, until August 1, 2022, the day commemorating the Buddha's first public teaching, the Four Truths of Noble Beings. Sign up here for Zoom links and reminders: https://www.prajnafire.com/service-page/praise-of-the-twelve-deeds FOLLOW US Join our Global Community for regular updates on Prajna Fire events with Yeshe and Zopa Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa offer individual spiritual counsel on formal Buddhist practice as well as innovative ways to integrate Buddhist perspective into your everyday life. Book Online at Prajna Fire with immediate confirmation (https://www.prajnafire.com/book-online) Hear Lama Yeshe's story on Opening Dharma Access: Listening to BIPOC Teachers https://ihr.fm/3uwqxZW And follow her guided practice of Tonglen Meditation & Sacred Creativity https://ihr.fm/3Lk9Kjy EMAIL US sparks@prajnafire.com FIND US on the Prajna Fire website (https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks) @prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUzGmU7c4_TJdLhG9R8IDA/videos) Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) IG: @karmayeshechodron @karmazopajigme Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com) | |||
| 22 Aug 2021 | 16 | Simplicity | 00:59:16 | |
Simplicity as a lens for understanding the first of three primary energies for traveling the Buddhist spiritual path. We tap the precision and poetry of language to unpack the significance of reorienting the mind to definite freedom. Lama Zopa guides an experiential practice beginning with shamatha (English: tranquility, or calm abiding) and leading into meditative inquiry, an insight practice from the Tibetan that invokes, instills, and integrates prajna, precise knowing. EPISODE CONTENTS 00:29 Teaching by Lama Yeshe 16:53 Conversation with Lama Yeshe and Tania Israel 40:25 Song: True (to the tune of True by Gary Kemp of Spandau Ballet), lyrics by Tania Israel, vocals by Heather Stevenson. 43:30 Guided meditation by Lama Zopa Tibetan singing bowl interludes by Shivnee Ratna PRAJNA SPARKS follows the lunar calendar. Look for new episodes on full moon days. RESOURCES Join our Global Community for regular updates on Prajna Fire events with Yeshe and Zopa Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa offer individual spiritual counsel on formal Buddhist practice as well as innovative ways to integrate Buddhist perspective into your everyday life. Book Online at Prajna Fire with immediate confirmation (https://www.prajnafire.com/book-online) EMAIL US sparks@prajnafire.com FIND US on the Prajna Fire website (https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks) @prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter Sing-a-long with us on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUzGmU7c4_TJdLhG9R8IDA/videos) Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) @karmayeshechodron @karmazopajigme Tania Israel (www.taniaisrael.com) Heather Stevenson (www.heatherstevenson.com) Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com) | |||
| 10 Feb 2024 | 126 | New-ness | 00:36:17 | |
On the cusp of the lunar new year, Lamas Yeshe & Zopa reflect on the hold of new-ness on the human psyche, reflected from nature around us, and how to harness the power of freshness in our practice at opportune, if arbitrary, moments in time. To join in the recitation of the Aspiration Prayer of Mahamudra for today's practice, click here for the beautiful translation by Ari Goldfield (plus a few Prajna Fire edits). https://bit.ly/AspirationMahamudra PRAJNA SPARKS follows the lunar calendar. Look for new episodes on the new moons. Tibetan singing bowl interludes by Shivnee Ratna RESOURCES Meet Lama Yeshe & Lama Zopa, in Tricycle Magazine https://bit.ly/3xRySck PUBLISHED ARTICLES https://www.prajnafire.com/media https://prajnafire.substack.com FOLLOW US Join our Global Community for regular updates on Prajna Fire events with Yeshe and Zopa Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa offer individual spiritual counsel on formal Buddhist practice as well as innovative ways to integrate Buddhist perspective into your everyday life. Book Online at Prajna Fire with immediate confirmation (https://www.prajnafire.com/book-online) Check us out in the media https://www.prajnafire.com/media EMAIL US sparks@prajnafire.com FIND US on the Prajna Fire website (https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks) @prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUzGmU7c4_TJdLhG9R8IDA/videos) Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) IG: @karmayeshechodron @karmazopajigme Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com) | |||
| 28 Jan 2022 | 47 | Lojong 26 - Mind your own business | 00:12:38 | |
Point 6: Healing Promises #26 - Mind your own business 59 Days of Healing, a special series based on the Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind, a first millennium Tibetan Buddhist lojong text by Kadampa Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje, where we explore one maxim each day to build a strong foundation of understanding to integrate the practice into our lives. A great way to start the year--both Western, at the beginning of the series, and Tibetan, at the end! Lama Yeshe's everyday English rendering of the 59 maxims of the Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind, including brief comments, is available for download in her ebook Heal Transform Transcend: Notes on Kadampa Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje's Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind. PRAJNA SPARKS will return to its regular lunar calendar schedule of hour long episodes after this series. Look for new episodes on full moon days. COMMENTARIES ON THE SEVEN POINTS FOR HEALING DUALISTIC MIND The Great Path of Awakening, Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Thaye, Ken McLeod, translator The Practice of Lojong: Cultivating Compassion through Training the Mind, Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche The Intelligent Heart: A Guide to the Compassionate Life, Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche Training the Mind and Cultivating Loving-Kindness, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche Start Where You Are, Pema Chodron Follow Lama Yeshe on Instagram for visual posts of her everyday English rendering of the 59 maxims with brief commentary. Stay tuned for more news on practicing #lojong with the Prajna Sparks team. RESOURCES Join our Global Community for regular updates on Prajna Fire events with Yeshe and Zopa Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa offer individual spiritual counsel on formal Buddhist practice as well as innovative ways to integrate Buddhist perspective into your everyday life. Book Online at Prajna Fire with immediate confirmation (https://www.prajnafire.com/book-online) EMAIL US sparks@prajnafire.com FIND US on the Prajna Fire website (https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks) @prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter Sing-a-long with us on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUzGmU7c4_TJdLhG9R8IDA/videos) Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) IG: @karmayeshechodron @karmazopajigme Tania Israel (www.taniaisrael.com) Heather Stevenson (www.heatherstevenson.com) Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com) | |||
| 30 Apr 2022 | 85 | Samsara | 00:44:24 | |
What exactly is samsara? A place? A metaphor? A state of mind? How can we understand samsara in a way that is integral to living a fulfilling and meaningful life, rather than an abstract concept? Tibetan singing bowl interludes by Shivnee Ratna PRAJNA SPARKS follows the lunar calendar. Look for new episodes on new and full moon days, and contemplation interludes on the quarter moons. LAMA YESHE Follow Lama Yeshe on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/karmayeshechodron/ Hear her story on Opening Dharma Access: Listening to BIPOC Teachers https://ihr.fm/3uwqxZW And follow her in a guided practice of Tonglen Meditation & Sacred Creativity https://ihr.fm/3Lk9Kjy RESOURCES Join our Global Community for regular updates on Prajna Fire events with Yeshe and Zopa Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa offer individual spiritual counsel on formal Buddhist practice as well as innovative ways to integrate Buddhist perspective into your everyday life. Book Online at Prajna Fire with immediate confirmation (https://www.prajnafire.com/book-online) EMAIL US sparks@prajnafire.com FIND US on the Prajna Fire website (https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks) @prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUzGmU7c4_TJdLhG9R8IDA/videos) Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) IG: @karmayeshechodron @karmazopajigme Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com) | |||
| 23 Jan 2022 | 42 | Lojong 21 - A light heart is our one true solace | 00:07:45 | |
Point 5: Track Your Progress #21 - A light heart is our one true solace 59 Days of Healing, a special series based on the Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind, a first millennium Tibetan Buddhist lojong text by Kadampa Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje, where we explore one maxim each day to build a strong foundation of understanding to integrate the practice into our lives. A great way to start the year--both Western, at the beginning of the series, and Tibetan, at the end! Lama Yeshe's everyday English rendering of the 59 maxims of the Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind, including brief comments, is available for download in her ebook Heal Transform Transcend: Notes on Kadampa Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje's Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind. PRAJNA SPARKS will return to its regular lunar calendar schedule of hour long episodes after this series. Look for new episodes on full moon days. COMMENTARIES ON THE SEVEN POINTS FOR HEALING DUALISTIC MIND The Great Path of Awakening, Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Thaye, Ken McLeod, translator The Practice of Lojong: Cultivating Compassion through Training the Mind, Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche The Intelligent Heart: A Guide to the Compassionate Life, Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche Training the Mind and Cultivating Loving-Kindness, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche Start Where You Are, Pema Chodron Follow Lama Yeshe on Instagram for visual posts of her everyday English rendering of the 59 maxims with brief commentary. Stay tuned for more news on practicing #lojong with the Prajna Sparks team. RESOURCES Join our Global Community for regular updates on Prajna Fire events with Yeshe and Zopa Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa offer individual spiritual counsel on formal Buddhist practice as well as innovative ways to integrate Buddhist perspective into your everyday life. Book Online at Prajna Fire with immediate confirmation (https://www.prajnafire.com/book-online) EMAIL US sparks@prajnafire.com FIND US on the Prajna Fire website (https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks) @prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter Sing-a-long with us on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUzGmU7c4_TJdLhG9R8IDA/videos) Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) IG: @karmayeshechodron @karmazopajigme Tania Israel (www.taniaisrael.com) Heather Stevenson (www.heatherstevenson.com) Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com) | |||
| 27 Feb 2021 | 10 | Love | 00:57:40 | |
Love as warm, openhearted tenderness: what it means, how it is cultivated in Tibetan Buddhist practice, and why it is beneficial. Lama Zopa guides an experiential practice beginning with shamatha (English: tranquility, or calm abiding) and leading into meditative inquiry, an insight practice from the Tibetan that invokes, instills, and integrates prajna, precise knowing. EPISODE CONTENTS 00:37 Teaching by Lama Yeshe 19:08 Conversation with Lama Yeshe and Tania Israel 43:30 Song: Love Beyond Measure (to the tune of Love Will Keep Us Together), lyrics by Tania Israel, vocals by Heather Stevenson 46:00 Guided meditation by Lama Zopa PRAJNA SPARKS follows the lunar calendar. Look for new episodes on full moon days. RESOURCES 14 DAYS OF LOVE | Audio tracks for progressive guided meditations on love, benevolence, caring, delight, and equanimity Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa offer individual spiritual counsel on formal Buddhist practice as well as innovative ways to integrate Buddhist perspective into your everyday life. Book Online at Prajna Fire with immediate confirmation (https://www.prajnafire.com/book-online) The book Training in Tenderness: Buddhist Teachings on Tsewa, the Radical Openness of Heart That Can Change the World, by Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche, containing profound and eloquent teachings on this approach to understanding love, is available at most online and physical retailers. EMAIL US sparks@prajnafire.com FIND US https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks @prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter Sing-a-long with us on YouTube Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) Tania Israel (www.taniaisrael.com) Heather Stevenson (www.heatherstevenson.com) Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com) | |||
| 01 Mar 2022 | 79 | Lojong 58 - Don’t be a drama queen | 00:08:14 | |
Point 7: Tips, #58 - Don’t be a drama queen. 59 Days of Healing, a special series based on the Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind, a first millennium Tibetan Buddhist lojong text by Kadampa Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje, where we explore one maxim each day to build a strong foundation of understanding to integrate the practice into our lives. A great way to start the year--both Western, at the beginning of the series, and Tibetan, at the end! Lama Yeshe's everyday English rendering of the 59 maxims of the Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind, including brief comments, is available for download in her ebook Heal Transform Transcend: Notes on Kadampa Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje's Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind. PRAJNA SPARKS will return to its regular lunar calendar schedule of hour long episodes after this series. Look for new episodes on full moon days. COMMENTARIES ON THE SEVEN POINTS FOR HEALING DUALISTIC MIND The Great Path of Awakening, Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Thaye, Ken McLeod, translator The Practice of Lojong: Cultivating Compassion through Training the Mind, Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche The Intelligent Heart: A Guide to the Compassionate Life, Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche Training the Mind and Cultivating Loving-Kindness, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche Start Where You Are, Pema Chodron Follow Lama Yeshe on Instagram for visual posts of her everyday English rendering of the 59 maxims with brief commentary. Stay tuned for more news on practicing #lojong with the Prajna Sparks team. RESOURCES Join our Global Community for regular updates on Prajna Fire events with Yeshe and Zopa Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa offer individual spiritual counsel on formal Buddhist practice as well as innovative ways to integrate Buddhist perspective into your everyday life. Book Online at Prajna Fire with immediate confirmation (https://www.prajnafire.com/book-online) EMAIL US sparks@prajnafire.com FIND US on the Prajna Fire website (https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks) @prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter Sing-a-long with us on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUzGmU7c4_TJdLhG9R8IDA/videos) Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) IG: @karmayeshechodron @karmazopajigme Tania Israel (www.taniaisrael.com) Heather Stevenson (www.heatherstevenson.com) Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com) | |||
| 28 Mar 2021 | 11 | Meditation Myths | 01:00:04 | |
Debunking common myths about meditation: the practice, the purpose, and the results. Lama Zopa guides an experiential practice beginning with shamatha (English: tranquility, or calm abiding) and leading into meditative inquiry, an insight practice from the Tibetan that invokes, instills, and integrates prajna, precise knowing. EPISODE CONTENTS 00:37 Teaching by Lama Yeshe 12:57 Conversation with Lama Yeshe and Tania Israel 44:13 Song: Try to Meditate (to the tune of Take a Chance on Me), lyrics by Tania Israel, vocals by Heather Stevenson 47:34 Guided meditation by Lama Zopa. Tibetan singing bowl interludes by Shivnee Ratna PRAJNA SPARKS follows the lunar calendar. Look for new episodes on full moon days. RESOURCES Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa offer individual spiritual counsel on formal Buddhist practice as well as innovative ways to integrate Buddhist perspective into your everyday life. Book Online at Prajna Fire with immediate confirmation (https://www.prajnafire.com/book-online) EMAIL US sparks@prajnafire.com FIND US https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks @prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter Sing-a-long with us on YouTube Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) Tania Israel (www.taniaisrael.com) Heather Stevenson (www.heatherstevenson.com) Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com) | |||
| 19 May 2023 | 111 | Integrating Dharma | 00:53:29 | |
Wow! Prajna Sparks Podcast celebrates our third anniversary this summer. To honor three years together with you, we will rebroadcast the most popular episodes of the last three years. No better place to start than the episode that started it all... Revisit the highlights of Prajna Sparks and check in on how beautifully you have integrated the Buddhadharma during our time together. And most importantly, thanks so much for your support, and for listening, contemplating, and meditating along with us. RESOURCES Meet Lama Yeshe & Lama Zopa, in Tricycle Magazine https://bit.ly/3xRySck Listen Contemplate Meditate, by Lama Yeshe, in Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Guide https://bit.ly/3ygFsus Meditative Inquiry, by Lama Yeshe, in Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Guide https://bit.ly/3xRySck EMAIL US sparks@prajnafire.com FIND US on the Prajna Fire website (https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks) @prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUzGmU7c4_TJdLhG9R8IDA/videos) Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) IG: @karmayeshechodron @karmazopajigme Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa offer individual spiritual counsel on formal Buddhist practice as well as innovative ways to integrate Buddhist perspective into your everyday life. Online booking with immediate confirmation. EMAIL US sparks@prajnafire.com FIND US www.prajnafire.com/sparks @prajnasparks on Facebook and Instagram Sing-a-long with us on Youtube Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) Tania Israel (www.taniaisrael.com) Heather Stevenson (www.heatherstevenson.com) Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com) RESOURCES Meet Lama Yeshe & Lama Zopa, in Tricycle Magazine https://bit.ly/3xRySck Listen Contemplate Meditate, by Lama Yeshe, in Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Guide https://bit.ly/3ygFsus Meditative Inquiry, by Lama Yeshe, in Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Guide https://bit.ly/3xRySck FOLLOW US Join our Global Community for regular updates on Prajna Fire events with Yeshe and Zopa Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa offer individual spiritual counsel on formal Buddhist practice as well as innovative ways to integrate Buddhist perspective into your everyday life. Book Online at Prajna Fire with immediate confirmation (https://www.prajnafire.com/book-online) Hear Lama Yeshe's story on Opening Dharma Access: Listening to BIPOC Teachers https://ihr.fm/3uwqxZW And follow her guided practice of Tonglen Meditation & Sacred Creativity https://ihr.fm/3Lk9Kjy EMAIL US sparks@prajnafire.com FIND US on the Prajna Fire website (https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks) @prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUzGmU7c4_TJdLhG9R8IDA/videos) Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) IG: @karmayeshechodron @karmazopajigme Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com) | |||
| 16 Feb 2022 | 66 | Lojong 45 - Embrace the three efficient causes | 00:14:36 | |
Point 7: Tips, #45 - Embrace the three efficient causes. 59 Days of Healing, a special series based on the Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind, a first millennium Tibetan Buddhist lojong text by Kadampa Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje, where we explore one maxim each day to build a strong foundation of understanding to integrate the practice into our lives. A great way to start the year--both Western, at the beginning of the series, and Tibetan, at the end! Lama Yeshe's everyday English rendering of the 59 maxims of the Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind, including brief comments, is available for download in her ebook Heal Transform Transcend: Notes on Kadampa Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje's Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind. PRAJNA SPARKS will return to its regular lunar calendar schedule of hour long episodes after this series. Look for new episodes on full moon days. COMMENTARIES ON THE SEVEN POINTS FOR HEALING DUALISTIC MIND The Great Path of Awakening, Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Thaye, Ken McLeod, translator The Practice of Lojong: Cultivating Compassion through Training the Mind, Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche The Intelligent Heart: A Guide to the Compassionate Life, Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche Training the Mind and Cultivating Loving-Kindness, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche Start Where You Are, Pema Chodron Follow Lama Yeshe on Instagram for visual posts of her everyday English rendering of the 59 maxims with brief commentary. Stay tuned for more news on practicing #lojong with the Prajna Sparks team. RESOURCES Join our Global Community for regular updates on Prajna Fire events with Yeshe and Zopa Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa offer individual spiritual counsel on formal Buddhist practice as well as innovative ways to integrate Buddhist perspective into your everyday life. Book Online at Prajna Fire with immediate confirmation (https://www.prajnafire.com/book-online) EMAIL US sparks@prajnafire.com FIND US on the Prajna Fire website (https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks) @prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter Sing-a-long with us on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUzGmU7c4_TJdLhG9R8IDA/videos) Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) IG: @karmayeshechodron @karmazopajigme Tania Israel (www.taniaisrael.com) Heather Stevenson (www.heatherstevenson.com) Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com) | |||
| 04 Feb 2022 | 54 | Lojong 33 - Stop pushing people’s buttons | 00:10:34 | |
Point 6: Healing Promises #33 - Stop pushing people’s buttons. 59 Days of Healing, a special series based on the Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind, a first millennium Tibetan Buddhist lojong text by Kadampa Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje, where we explore one maxim each day to build a strong foundation of understanding to integrate the practice into our lives. A great way to start the year--both Western, at the beginning of the series, and Tibetan, at the end! Lama Yeshe's everyday English rendering of the 59 maxims of the Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind, including brief comments, is available for download in her ebook Heal Transform Transcend: Notes on Kadampa Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje's Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind. PRAJNA SPARKS will return to its regular lunar calendar schedule of hour long episodes after this series. Look for new episodes on full moon days. COMMENTARIES ON THE SEVEN POINTS FOR HEALING DUALISTIC MIND The Great Path of Awakening, Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Thaye, Ken McLeod, translator The Practice of Lojong: Cultivating Compassion through Training the Mind, Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche The Intelligent Heart: A Guide to the Compassionate Life, Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche Training the Mind and Cultivating Loving-Kindness, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche Start Where You Are, Pema Chodron Follow Lama Yeshe on Instagram for visual posts of her everyday English rendering of the 59 maxims with brief commentary. Stay tuned for more news on practicing #lojong with the Prajna Sparks team. RESOURCES Join our Global Community for regular updates on Prajna Fire events with Yeshe and Zopa Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa offer individual spiritual counsel on formal Buddhist practice as well as innovative ways to integrate Buddhist perspective into your everyday life. Book Online at Prajna Fire with immediate confirmation (https://www.prajnafire.com/book-online) EMAIL US sparks@prajnafire.com FIND US on the Prajna Fire website (https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks) @prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter Sing-a-long with us on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUzGmU7c4_TJdLhG9R8IDA/videos) Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) IG: @karmayeshechodron @karmazopajigme Tania Israel (www.taniaisrael.com) Heather Stevenson (www.heatherstevenson.com) Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com) | |||
| 02 Feb 2022 | 52 | Lojong 31 - Do not be baited into backbiting | 00:09:15 | |
Point 6: Healing Promises #31 - Do not be baited into backbiting. 59 Days of Healing, a special series based on the Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind, a first millennium Tibetan Buddhist lojong text by Kadampa Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje, where we explore one maxim each day to build a strong foundation of understanding to integrate the practice into our lives. A great way to start the year--both Western, at the beginning of the series, and Tibetan, at the end! Lama Yeshe's everyday English rendering of the 59 maxims of the Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind, including brief comments, is available for download in her ebook Heal Transform Transcend: Notes on Kadampa Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje's Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind. PRAJNA SPARKS will return to its regular lunar calendar schedule of hour long episodes after this series. Look for new episodes on full moon days. COMMENTARIES ON THE SEVEN POINTS FOR HEALING DUALISTIC MIND The Great Path of Awakening, Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Thaye, Ken McLeod, translator The Practice of Lojong: Cultivating Compassion through Training the Mind, Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche The Intelligent Heart: A Guide to the Compassionate Life, Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche Training the Mind and Cultivating Loving-Kindness, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche Start Where You Are, Pema Chodron Follow Lama Yeshe on Instagram for visual posts of her everyday English rendering of the 59 maxims with brief commentary. Stay tuned for more news on practicing #lojong with the Prajna Sparks team. RESOURCES Join our Global Community for regular updates on Prajna Fire events with Yeshe and Zopa Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa offer individual spiritual counsel on formal Buddhist practice as well as innovative ways to integrate Buddhist perspective into your everyday life. Book Online at Prajna Fire with immediate confirmation (https://www.prajnafire.com/book-online) EMAIL US sparks@prajnafire.com FIND US on the Prajna Fire website (https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks) @prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter Sing-a-long with us on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUzGmU7c4_TJdLhG9R8IDA/videos) Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) IG: @karmayeshechodron @karmazopajigme Tania Israel (www.taniaisrael.com) Heather Stevenson (www.heatherstevenson.com) Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com) | |||
| 01 Feb 2022 | 51 | Lojong 30 - Do not rely on righteousness | 00:11:31 | |
Point 6: Healing Promises #30 - Do not rely on righteousness. 59 Days of Healing, a special series based on the Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind, a first millennium Tibetan Buddhist lojong text by Kadampa Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje, where we explore one maxim each day to build a strong foundation of understanding to integrate the practice into our lives. A great way to start the year--both Western, at the beginning of the series, and Tibetan, at the end! Lama Yeshe's everyday English rendering of the 59 maxims of the Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind, including brief comments, is available for download in her ebook Heal Transform Transcend: Notes on Kadampa Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje's Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind. PRAJNA SPARKS will return to its regular lunar calendar schedule of hour long episodes after this series. Look for new episodes on full moon days. COMMENTARIES ON THE SEVEN POINTS FOR HEALING DUALISTIC MIND The Great Path of Awakening, Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Thaye, Ken McLeod, translator The Practice of Lojong: Cultivating Compassion through Training the Mind, Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche The Intelligent Heart: A Guide to the Compassionate Life, Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche Training the Mind and Cultivating Loving-Kindness, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche Start Where You Are, Pema Chodron Follow Lama Yeshe on Instagram for visual posts of her everyday English rendering of the 59 maxims with brief commentary. Stay tuned for more news on practicing #lojong with the Prajna Sparks team. RESOURCES Join our Global Community for regular updates on Prajna Fire events with Yeshe and Zopa Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa offer individual spiritual counsel on formal Buddhist practice as well as innovative ways to integrate Buddhist perspective into your everyday life. Book Online at Prajna Fire with immediate confirmation (https://www.prajnafire.com/book-online) EMAIL US sparks@prajnafire.com FIND US on the Prajna Fire website (https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks) @prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter Sing-a-long with us on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUzGmU7c4_TJdLhG9R8IDA/videos) Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) IG: @karmayeshechodron @karmazopajigme Tania Israel (www.taniaisrael.com) Heather Stevenson (www.heatherstevenson.com) Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com) | |||
| 13 Nov 2023 | 123 | Troubling Times | 00:32:04 | |
Lamas Yeshe and Zopa invite everyone into the brave heart of courageous walking the world with powerful presence in troubling times. PRAJNA SPARKS follows the lunar calendar. Beginning November 2023, we are shifting to a once per month schedule. Look for new episodes on the new moons. Tibetan singing bowl interludes by Shivnee Ratna RESOURCES Meet Lama Yeshe & Lama Zopa, in Tricycle Magazine https://bit.ly/3xRySck FOLLOW US Join our Global Community for regular updates on Prajna Fire events with Yeshe and Zopa Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa offer individual spiritual counsel on formal Buddhist practice as well as innovative ways to integrate Buddhist perspective into your everyday life. Book Online at Prajna Fire with immediate confirmation (https://www.prajnafire.com/book-online) Check us out in the media https://www.prajnafire.com/media EMAIL US sparks@prajnafire.com FIND US on the Prajna Fire website (https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks) @prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUzGmU7c4_TJdLhG9R8IDA/videos) Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) IG: @karmayeshechodron @karmazopajigme Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com)
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| 07 Jan 2022 | 26 | Lojong 5 - Rest in essence, the ground of all | 00:21:46 | |
Point 2: Nurture the Intent to Awaken, #5. Rest in essence, the ground of all. 59 Days of Healing, a special series based on the Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind, a first millennium Tibetan Buddhist lojong text by Kadampa Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje, where we explore one maxim each day to build a strong foundation of understanding to integrate the practice into our lives. A great way to start the year--both Western, at the beginning of the series, and Tibetan, at the end! Lama Yeshe's everyday English rendering of the 59 maxims of the Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind, including brief comments, is available for download in her ebook Heal Transform Transcend: Notes on Kadampa Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje's Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind. PRAJNA SPARKS will return to its regular lunar calendar schedule of hour long episodes after this series. Look for new episodes on full moon days. COMMENTARIES ON THE SEVEN POINTS FOR HEALING DUALISTIC MIND The Great Path of Awakening, Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Thaye, Ken McLeod, translator The Practice of Lojong: Cultivating Compassion through Training the Mind, Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche The Intelligent Heart: A Guide to the Compassionate Life, Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche Training the Mind and Cultivating Loving-Kindness, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche Start Where You Are, Pema Chodron Follow Lama Yeshe on Instagram for visual posts of her everyday English rendering of the 59 maxims with brief commentary. Stay tuned for more news on practicing #lojong with the Prajna Sparks team. RESOURCES Join our Global Community for regular updates on Prajna Fire events with Yeshe and Zopa Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa offer individual spiritual counsel on formal Buddhist practice as well as innovative ways to integrate Buddhist perspective into your everyday life. Book Online at Prajna Fire with immediate confirmation (https://www.prajnafire.com/book-online) EMAIL US sparks@prajnafire.com FIND US on the Prajna Fire website (https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks) @prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter Sing-a-long with us on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUzGmU7c4_TJdLhG9R8IDA/videos) Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) IG: @karmayeshechodron @karmazopajigme Tania Israel (www.taniaisrael.com) Heather Stevenson (www.heatherstevenson.com) Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com) | |||
| 04 Nov 2021 | BONUS | Dharma In Action: Vaccine Debates | 00:16:22 | |
How can Dharma help us understand and navigate the disagreements about vaccines, mask mandates, and other pandemic precautions? Yeshe and Tania have a conversation about healthy dialogue on potentially divisive issues. EPISODE CONTENTS 00:20 Conversation with Lama Yeshe and Tania Israel EPISODE CONTENTS 00:34 Conversation with Lama Yeshe and Tania Israel No Song or Guided Meditation in this bonus episode. Tibetan singing bowl interludes by Shivnee Ratna PRAJNA SPARKS follows the lunar calendar. Look for new episodes on full moon days. BEYOND YOUR BUBBLE Beyond Your Bubble: Dialogue Across Political Lines by Dr. Tania Israel RESOURCES Join our Global Community for regular updates on Prajna Fire events with Yeshe and Zopa Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa offer individual spiritual counsel on formal Buddhist practice as well as innovative ways to integrate Buddhist perspective into your everyday life. Book Online at Prajna Fire with immediate confirmation (https://www.prajnafire.com/book-online) EMAIL US sparks@prajnafire.com FIND US on the Prajna Fire website (https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks) Sing-a-long with us on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUzGmU7c4_TJdLhG9R8IDA/videos) @prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) IG: @karmayeshechodron @karmazopajigme Tania Israel (www.taniaisrael.com) Heather Stevenson (www.heatherstevenson.com) Antara Hunter (www.antaratunes.com) Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com) | |||
| 10 Jan 2022 | 29 | Lojong 8 - Three sets of three: things, poisons, virtues | 00:12:53 | |
Point 2: Nurture the Intent to Awaken, #8. Three sets of three: things, poisons, virtues. 59 Days of Healing, a special series based on the Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind, a first millennium Tibetan Buddhist lojong text by Kadampa Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje, where we explore one maxim each day to build a strong foundation of understanding to integrate the practice into our lives. A great way to start the year--both Western, at the beginning of the series, and Tibetan, at the end! Lama Yeshe's everyday English rendering of the 59 maxims of the Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind, including brief comments, is available for download in her ebook Heal Transform Transcend: Notes on Kadampa Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje's Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind. PRAJNA SPARKS will return to its regular lunar calendar schedule of hour long episodes after this series. Look for new episodes on full moon days. COMMENTARIES ON THE SEVEN POINTS FOR HEALING DUALISTIC MIND The Great Path of Awakening, Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Thaye, Ken McLeod, translator The Practice of Lojong: Cultivating Compassion through Training the Mind, Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche The Intelligent Heart: A Guide to the Compassionate Life, Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche Training the Mind and Cultivating Loving-Kindness, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche Start Where You Are, Pema Chodron Follow Lama Yeshe on Instagram for visual posts of her everyday English rendering of the 59 maxims with brief commentary. Stay tuned for more news on practicing #lojong with the Prajna Sparks team. RESOURCES Join our Global Community for regular updates on Prajna Fire events with Yeshe and Zopa Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa offer individual spiritual counsel on formal Buddhist practice as well as innovative ways to integrate Buddhist perspective into your everyday life. Book Online at Prajna Fire with immediate confirmation (https://www.prajnafire.com/book-online) EMAIL US sparks@prajnafire.com FIND US on the Prajna Fire website (https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks) @prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter Sing-a-long with us on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUzGmU7c4_TJdLhG9R8IDA/videos) Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) IG: @karmayeshechodron @karmazopajigme Tania Israel (www.taniaisrael.com) Heather Stevenson (www.heatherstevenson.com) Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com) | |||
| 26 May 2021 | 13 | Faith | 00:47:33 | |
Faith in Buddhist practice and life spans a continuum from skepticism to confidence, vivid clarity, and profound longing. Lama Zopa guides an experiential practice beginning with shamatha (English: tranquility, or calm abiding) and leading into meditative inquiry, an insight practice from the Tibetan that invokes, instills, and integrates prajna, precise knowing. EPISODE CONTENTS 00:37 Teaching by Lama Yeshe 13:44 Conversation with Lama Yeshe and Tania Israel 33:57 Song: Faith (to the tune of Faith by George Michael)), lyrics by Tania Israel, vocals by Heather Stevenson. 36:30 Guided meditation by Lama Zopa. Tibetan singing bowl interludes by Shivnee Ratna PRAJNA SPARKS follows the lunar calendar. Look for new episodes on full moon days. RESOURCES Join our Global Community for regular updates on Prajna Fire events with Yeshe and Zopa Join us June 12-13, 2021 for Adventures in Investigating Mind, an intensive practice weekend focusing on methods to meet, befriend, and greet our own mind, right within the thoughts, emotions, and experiences of everyday life alongside formal meditation. Creating Sanctuary, a Prajna Rising online journal article about cultivating a habit of regular meditation. Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa offer individual spiritual counsel on formal Buddhist practice as well as innovative ways to integrate Buddhist perspective into your everyday life. Book Online at Prajna Fire with immediate confirmation (https://www.prajnafire.com/book-online) EMAIL US sparks@prajnafire.com FIND US https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks @prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter Sing-a-long with us on YouTube Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) Tania Israel (www.taniaisrael.com) Heather Stevenson (www.heatherstevenson.com) Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com) | |||
| 20 Oct 2021 | 18 | Paradox | 01:01:43 | |
Paradox as a lens for understanding the third of three primary energies for traveling the Buddhist spiritual path. We tap the precision and poetry of language to unpack the significance of shifting our view from misperception towards nondual wisdom. Lama Zopa guides an experiential practice beginning with shamatha (English: tranquility, or calm abiding) and leading into meditative inquiry, an insight practice from the Tibetan that invokes, instills, and integrates prajna, precise knowing. EPISODE CONTENTS 00:36 Teaching by Lama Yeshe 25:31 Conversation with Lama Yeshe and Tania Israel 45:36 Song: Paradox (to the tune of "Tenderness," by Mickey Billlingham, Ranking Roger, Dave Wakeling) Lyrics by Tania Israel. Music and vocals by Antara Hunter and Heather Stevenson 49:47 Guided meditation by Lama Zopa Tibetan singing bowl interludes by Shivnee Ratna PRAJNA SPARKS follows the lunar calendar. Look for new episodes on full moon days. RESOURCES Join our Global Community for regular updates on Prajna Fire events with Yeshe and Zopa Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa offer individual spiritual counsel on formal Buddhist practice as well as innovative ways to integrate Buddhist perspective into your everyday life. Book Online at Prajna Fire with immediate confirmation (https://www.prajnafire.com/book-online) EMAIL US sparks@prajnafire.com FIND US on the Prajna Fire website (https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks) @prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter Sing-a-long with us on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUzGmU7c4_TJdLhG9R8IDA/videos) Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) IG: @karmayeshechodron @karmazopajigme Tania Israel (www.taniaisrael.com) Heather Stevenson (www.heatherstevenson.com) Antara Hunter (www.antaratunes.com) Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com) | |||
| 03 Sep 2022 | Q&A | Nirvana is Peace | 00:12:37 | |
Zopa reflects on last week's "Nirvana is Peace" episode in this Contemplation interlude, and announces our next series, #WhyNirvanaMatters. Beginning September 10, on the full and new moons, we will discuss Nirvana and its place in theory and practice with an engaging set of Buddhist teachers from various traditions of Buddhadharma. Tibetan singing bowl interludes by Shivnee Ratna PRAJNA SPARKS follows the lunar calendar. Look for new episodes on new and full moon days, and contemplation interludes on the quarter moons. RESOURCES Read more about the integrative dharma practice of Listening Contemplating and Meditating in its full practice context in Lama Yeshe's latest article for Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Guide https://bit.ly/3ygFsus KEEP UP WITH US Take a look at our Meet a Teacher profile in Tricycle Magazine: https://tricycle.org/magazine/prajna-fire-teachers/ Join our Global Community for regular updates on Prajna Fire events with Yeshe and Zopa Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa offer individual spiritual counsel on formal Buddhist practice as well as innovative ways to integrate Buddhist perspective into your everyday life. Book Online at Prajna Fire with immediate confirmation (https://www.prajnafire.com/book-online) EMAIL US sparks@prajnafire.com FIND US on the Prajna Fire website (https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks) @prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUzGmU7c4_TJdLhG9R8IDA/videos) Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) IG: @karmayeshechodron @karmazopajigme Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com) | |||
| 27 Aug 2022 | 93 | Nirvana is Peace | 00:34:34 | |
Fourth of a four part series on the Four Hallmarks of the Buddha's teachings, this episode explores nirvana as peace in our immediate experience, through the dynamic practice of Meditative Inquiry. CONTENTS
Tibetan singing bowl interludes by Shivnee Ratna PRAJNA SPARKS follows the lunar calendar. Look for new episodes on new and full moon days, and contemplation interludes on the quarter moons. RESOURCES Prajna Sparks Listen Contemplate Meditate, by Lama Yeshe, in Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Guide https://bit.ly/3ygFsus Meditative Inquiry, by Lama Yeshe, in Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Guide https://bit.ly/3xRySck Meet Lama Yeshe & Lama Zopa, in Tricycle Magazine https://bit.ly/3xRySck FOLLOW US Join our Global Community for regular updates on Prajna Fire events with Yeshe and Zopa Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa offer individual spiritual counsel on formal Buddhist practice as well as innovative ways to integrate Buddhist perspective into your everyday life. Book Online at Prajna Fire with immediate confirmation (https://www.prajnafire.com/book-online) Hear Lama Yeshe's story on Opening Dharma Access: Listening to BIPOC Teachers https://ihr.fm/3uwqxZW And follow her guided practice of Tonglen Meditation & Sacred Creativity https://ihr.fm/3Lk9Kjy EMAIL US sparks@prajnafire.com FIND US on the Prajna Fire website (https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks) @prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUzGmU7c4_TJdLhG9R8IDA/videos) Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) IG: @karmayeshechodron @karmazopajigme Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com) | |||
| 14 Oct 2023 | 121 | Tame the Mind | 00:29:58 | |
Lamas Yeshe and Zopa discuss the single phrase that encapsulates all of the Buddha's teachings: "tame the mind." Teachings by Drupon Khenpo Lodro Namgyal mentioned in this episode occurred via Zoom online, October 13 to 15, 2023. Translation to English (by Lama Yeshe), as well as French, Mandrin, and Spanish available. Use this link to register and attain access to recordings of Drupon Khenpo's teachings through January 2024. https://rigpedorjemontreal.org/en/un-seul-mot-des-instructions-essentielles-du-guru-en/ PRAJNA SPARKS follows the lunar calendar. Beginning November 2023, we are shifting to a once per month schedule. Look for new episodes on the new moon. This episode drops at the start of the 2023 Annular Solar Eclipse in Santa Fe, NM, home of Prajna Sparks. Tibetan singing bowl interludes by Shivnee Ratna RESOURCES Meet Lama Yeshe & Lama Zopa, in Tricycle Magazine https://bit.ly/3xRySck Listen Contemplate Meditate, by Lama Yeshe, in Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Guide https://bit.ly/3ygFsus Meditative Inquiry, by Lama Yeshe, in Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Guide https://bit.ly/3xRySck FOLLOW US Join our Global Community for regular updates on Prajna Fire events with Yeshe and Zopa Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa offer individual spiritual counsel on formal Buddhist practice as well as innovative ways to integrate Buddhist perspective into your everyday life. Book Online at Prajna Fire with immediate confirmation (https://www.prajnafire.com/book-online) Check us out in the media https://www.prajnafire.com/media EMAIL US sparks@prajnafire.com FIND US on the Prajna Fire website (https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks) @prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUzGmU7c4_TJdLhG9R8IDA/videos) Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) IG: @karmayeshechodron @karmazopajigme Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com) | |||
| 21 Jan 2023 | 103 | Paramitas | 00:16:42 | |
Lamas Yeshe and Zopa present an overview of the Buddhist teaching and practice of the paramitas, the transcendent perfections that traverse the ocean of suffering that is samsara to the other shore, buddhahood, full and complete awakening. Tibetan singing bowl interludes by Shivnee Ratna PRAJNA SPARKS follows the lunar calendar. Look for new episodes on new and full moon days, and contemplation interludes on the quarter moons. RESOURCES Meet Lama Yeshe & Lama Zopa, in Tricycle Magazine https://bit.ly/3xRySck Listen Contemplate Meditate, by Lama Yeshe, in Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Guide https://bit.ly/3ygFsus Meditative Inquiry, by Lama Yeshe, in Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Guide https://bit.ly/3xRySck FOLLOW US Join our Global Community for regular updates on Prajna Fire events with Yeshe and Zopa Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa offer individual spiritual counsel on formal Buddhist practice as well as innovative ways to integrate Buddhist perspective into your everyday life. Book Online at Prajna Fire with immediate confirmation (https://www.prajnafire.com/book-online) Hear Lama Yeshe's story on Opening Dharma Access: Listening to BIPOC Teachers https://ihr.fm/3uwqxZW And follow her guided practice of Tonglen Meditation & Sacred Creativity https://ihr.fm/3Lk9Kjy EMAIL US sparks@prajnafire.com FIND US on the Prajna Fire website (https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks) @prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUzGmU7c4_TJdLhG9R8IDA/videos) Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) IG: @karmayeshechodron @karmazopajigme Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com) | |||
| 29 Sep 2023 | 120 | Samsara is Tragic | 00:28:33 | |
Lamas Yeshe and Zopa discuss the tragedy that is samsara, fourth of the Four Thoughts that Turn the Mind to Dharma, a set of contemplations to reoirent the mind away from the deceptiveness of samsara and towards liberation and buddhahood. This is a five-part series exploring each of the four thoughts and their contemplative practice, offered to support Prajna Fire's Ngondro Prep School. Read more about this dynamic four-month online program here. https://www.prajnafire.com/event-info/ngondro-prep PRAJNA SPARKS follows the lunar calendar. Look for new episodes monthly. Tibetan singing bowl interludes by Shivnee Ratna RESOURCES Meet Lama Yeshe & Lama Zopa, in Tricycle Magazine https://bit.ly/3xRySck Listen Contemplate Meditate, by Lama Yeshe, in Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Guide https://bit.ly/3ygFsus Meditative Inquiry, by Lama Yeshe, in Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Guide https://bit.ly/3xRySck FOLLOW US Join our Global Community for regular updates on Prajna Fire events with Yeshe and Zopa Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa offer individual spiritual counsel on formal Buddhist practice as well as innovative ways to integrate Buddhist perspective into your everyday life. Book Online at Prajna Fire with immediate confirmation (https://www.prajnafire.com/book-online) Check us out in the media https://www.prajnafire.com/media EMAIL US sparks@prajnafire.com FIND US on the Prajna Fire website (https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks) @prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUzGmU7c4_TJdLhG9R8IDA/videos) Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) IG: @karmayeshechodron @karmazopajigme Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com) | |||
| 25 Oct 2022 | 97 | A Better Way: Kim Allen on #WhyNirvanaMatters | 00:29:25 | |
Talk #4. Lamas Yeshe and Zopa talk with Kim Allen, who began meditating in 2003, seeking both a path out of suffering and the deeper truths of life. She trained for many years in the Theravāda tradition and more recently with teachers of other Buddhist traditions. Her path has included long retreat, study of the suttas, and practice in Asia, and she now lives as a lay contemplative. Kim serves as a teacher and author dedicated to offering classical Dharma in a modern context. Her website is http://www.uncontrived.org. #WhyNirvanaMatters is a series of talks with contemporary Buddhist teachers about Nirvana, peace, and its relevance in our lives and practice of Dharma. Tibetan singing bowl interludes by Shivnee Ratna PRAJNA SPARKS follows the lunar calendar. Look for new episodes on new and full moon days. RESOURCES Nirvana Episodes 4 and 93 Meet Lama Yeshe & Lama Zopa, in Tricycle Magazine https://bit.ly/3xRySck Listen Contemplate Meditate, by Lama Yeshe, in Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Guide https://bit.ly/3ygFsus Meditative Inquiry, by Lama Yeshe, in Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Guide https://bit.ly/3xRySck FOLLOW US Join our Global Community for regular updates on Prajna Fire events with Yeshe and Zopa Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa offer individual spiritual counsel on formal Buddhist practice as well as innovative ways to integrate Buddhist perspective into your everyday life. Book Online at Prajna Fire with immediate confirmation (https://www.prajnafire.com/book-online) Hear Lama Yeshe's story on Opening Dharma Access: Listening to BIPOC Teachers https://ihr.fm/3uwqxZW And follow her guided practice of Tonglen Meditation & Sacred Creativity https://ihr.fm/3Lk9Kjy EMAIL US sparks@prajnafire.com FIND US on the Prajna Fire website (https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks) @prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUzGmU7c4_TJdLhG9R8IDA/videos) Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) IG: @karmayeshechodron @karmazopajigme Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com) | |||
| 16 May 2022 | 86 | Merit | 00:29:52 | |
Merit is an intangible thing, more qualitative than quantitative. How can we understand it better? What effect does it have on our lives and spiritual practice? Tibetan singing bowl interludes by Shivnee Ratna PRAJNA SPARKS follows the lunar calendar. Look for new episodes on new and full moon days, and contemplation interludes on the quarter moons. LAMA YESHE Follow Lama Yeshe on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/karmayeshechodron/ Hear her story on Opening Dharma Access: Listening to BIPOC Teachers https://ihr.fm/3uwqxZW And follow her in a guided practice of Tonglen Meditation & Sacred Creativity https://ihr.fm/3Lk9Kjy RESOURCES Join our Global Community for regular updates on Prajna Fire events with Yeshe and Zopa Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa offer individual spiritual counsel on formal Buddhist practice as well as innovative ways to integrate Buddhist perspective into your everyday life. Book Online at Prajna Fire with immediate confirmation (https://www.prajnafire.com/book-online) EMAIL US sparks@prajnafire.com FIND US on the Prajna Fire website (https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks) @prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUzGmU7c4_TJdLhG9R8IDA/videos) Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) IG: @karmayeshechodron @karmazopajigme Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com) | |||
| 03 Sep 2024 | 133 | Genuine Reality, Meditation Style | 00:20:45 | |
In a new twist, Lamas Yeshe & Zopa present Genuine Reality from the stance of contemplation and meditation first. Hear how song and your own experience provide us with the raw material for exploring genuine reality, here and now. Contemplation through song and follow a guided meditation to connect with what is true based on our own joy and inward experience. HERE ARE THE LYRICS TO OUR SINGING CONTEMPLATION, "FRIENDS"--JOIN US IN BELTING IT OUT! FRIENDS: A Song of Those who are Full of Love but Free of Attachment
Find other song lyrics and accompanying audio tracks here: https://www.ktgrinpoche.org/songs/friends-yogis-and-yoginis PRAJNA SPARKS follows the lunar calendar. Look for new episodes on the new moons. Tibetan singing bowl interludes by Shivnee Ratna RESOURCES Meet Lama Yeshe & Lama Zopa, in Tricycle Magazine https://bit.ly/3xRySck PUBLISHED ARTICLEShttps://www.prajnafire.com/media Prajna Fire on Substack https://prajnafire.substack.com FOLLOW US Join our Global Community for regular updates on Prajna Fire events with Yeshe and Zopa Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa offer individual spiritual counsel on formal Buddhist practice as well as innovative ways to integrate Buddhist perspective into your everyday life. Book Online at Prajna Fire with immediate confirmation (https://www.prajnafire.com/book-online) Check us out in the media https://www.prajnafire.com/media EMAIL US sparks@prajnafire.com FIND US on the Prajna Fire website (https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks) @prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUzGmU7c4_TJdLhG9R8IDA/videos) Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) IG: @karmayeshechodron @karmazopajigme Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com)
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| 20 Jul 2022 | Q&A | Impermanence | 00:17:54 | |
Yeshe welcomes Tania back for a special reprise of their Dharma discussions, focused on last week's "Impermanence" episode in this Contemplation interlude... Read more about Meditative Inquiry in its full practice context in Lama Yeshe's latest article for Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Guide https://bit.ly/3ygFsus Tibetan singing bowl interludes by Shivnee Ratna PRAJNA SPARKS follows the lunar calendar. Look for new episodes on new and full moon days, and contemplation interludes on the quarter moons. RESOURCES Join us Mondays through August 1, 2022 at 8AM US MDT for the chanting practice of the Praise of the Twelve Deeds, followed by discussion. Free and open to all. Sign up here: https://www.prajnafire.com/service-page/praise-of-the-twelve-deeds KEEP UP WITH US Follow Lama Yeshe on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/karmayeshechodron/ Hear her story on Opening Dharma Access: Listening to BIPOC Teachers https://ihr.fm/3uwqxZW And follow her in a guided practice of Tonglen Meditation & Sacred Creativity https://ihr.fm/3Lk9Kjy Join our Global Community for regular updates on Prajna Fire events with Yeshe and Zopa Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa offer individual spiritual counsel on formal Buddhist practice as well as innovative ways to integrate Buddhist perspective into your everyday life. Book Online at Prajna Fire with immediate confirmation (https://www.prajnafire.com/book-online) EMAIL US sparks@prajnafire.com FIND US on the Prajna Fire website (https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks) @prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUzGmU7c4_TJdLhG9R8IDA/videos) Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) IG: @karmayeshechodron @karmazopajigme Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com) | |||
| 13 Feb 2022 | 63 | Lojong 42 - Either way, be magnanimous | 00:13:28 | |
Point 7: Tips #42 - Either way, be magnanimous. 59 Days of Healing, a special series based on the Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind, a first millennium Tibetan Buddhist lojong text by Kadampa Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje, where we explore one maxim each day to build a strong foundation of understanding to integrate the practice into our lives. A great way to start the year--both Western, at the beginning of the series, and Tibetan, at the end! Lama Yeshe's everyday English rendering of the 59 maxims of the Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind, including brief comments, is available for download in her ebook Heal Transform Transcend: Notes on Kadampa Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje's Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind. PRAJNA SPARKS will return to its regular lunar calendar schedule of hour long episodes after this series. Look for new episodes on full moon days. COMMENTARIES ON THE SEVEN POINTS FOR HEALING DUALISTIC MIND The Great Path of Awakening, Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Thaye, Ken McLeod, translator The Practice of Lojong: Cultivating Compassion through Training the Mind, Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche The Intelligent Heart: A Guide to the Compassionate Life, Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche Training the Mind and Cultivating Loving-Kindness, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche Start Where You Are, Pema Chodron Follow Lama Yeshe on Instagram for visual posts of her everyday English rendering of the 59 maxims with brief commentary. Stay tuned for more news on practicing #lojong with the Prajna Sparks team. RESOURCES Join our Global Community for regular updates on Prajna Fire events with Yeshe and Zopa Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa offer individual spiritual counsel on formal Buddhist practice as well as innovative ways to integrate Buddhist perspective into your everyday life. Book Online at Prajna Fire with immediate confirmation (https://www.prajnafire.com/book-online) EMAIL US sparks@prajnafire.com FIND US on the Prajna Fire website (https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks) @prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter Sing-a-long with us on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUzGmU7c4_TJdLhG9R8IDA/videos) Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) IG: @karmayeshechodron @karmazopajigme Tania Israel (www.taniaisrael.com) Heather Stevenson (www.heatherstevenson.com) Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com) | |||
| 12 Dec 2023 | 124 | Bodhicitta | 00:41:30 | |
Lamas Yeshe and Zopa invite everyone into the brave heart of courageous walking the world with powerful presence in troubling times. PRAJNA SPARKS follows the lunar calendar. Beginning November 2023, we are shifting to a once per month schedule. Look for new episodes on the new moons. Tibetan singing bowl interludes by Shivnee Ratna RESOURCES Meet Lama Yeshe & Lama Zopa, in Tricycle Magazine https://bit.ly/3xRySck FOLLOW US Join our Global Community for regular updates on Prajna Fire events with Yeshe and Zopa Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa offer individual spiritual counsel on formal Buddhist practice as well as innovative ways to integrate Buddhist perspective into your everyday life. Book Online at Prajna Fire with immediate confirmation (https://www.prajnafire.com/book-online) Check us out in the media https://www.prajnafire.com/media EMAIL US sparks@prajnafire.com FIND US on the Prajna Fire website (https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks) @prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUzGmU7c4_TJdLhG9R8IDA/videos) Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) IG: @karmayeshechodron @karmazopajigme Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com)
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| 13 Jul 2022 | 90 | Impermanence | 00:33:01 | |
First of a four part series on the Four Hallmarks of the Buddha's teachings, this episode explores Impermanence right within our immediate experience, through the dynamic practice of Meditative Inquiry. A vital element of healing and transforming in Tibetan Buddhist practice, meditative inquiry is also the heart of the Buddha's contemplative technology for cultivating view progressively, all the way to transcending views altogether. CONTENTS
Tibetan singing bowl interludes by Shivnee Ratna PRAJNA SPARKS follows the lunar calendar. Look for new episodes on new and full moon days, and contemplation interludes on the quarter moons. RESOURCES Prajna SparksEpisode 89 and 89 Q&A introduce Meditative Inquiry Listen Contemplate Meditate, by Lama Yeshe, in Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Guide https://bit.ly/3ygFsus Meditative Inquiry, by Lama Yeshe, in Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Guide https://bit.ly/3xRySck Meet Lama Yeshe & Lama Zopa, in Tricycle Magazine https://bit.ly/3xRySck Join us live on Zoom every Monday at 8AM US Mountain time for a chanting practice of the Praise of the Twelve Deeds of the Buddha, until August 1, 2022, the day commemorating the Buddha's first public teaching, the Four Truths of Noble Beings. Sign up here for Zoom links and reminders: https://www.prajnafire.com/service-page/praise-of-the-twelve-deeds FOLLOW US Join our Global Community for regular updates on Prajna Fire events with Yeshe and Zopa Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa offer individual spiritual counsel on formal Buddhist practice as well as innovative ways to integrate Buddhist perspective into your everyday life. Book Online at Prajna Fire with immediate confirmation (https://www.prajnafire.com/book-online) Hear Lama Yeshe's story on Opening Dharma Access: Listening to BIPOC Teachers https://ihr.fm/3uwqxZW And follow her guided practice of Tonglen Meditation & Sacred Creativity https://ihr.fm/3Lk9Kjy EMAIL US sparks@prajnafire.com FIND US on the Prajna Fire website (https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks) @prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUzGmU7c4_TJdLhG9R8IDA/videos) Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) IG: @karmayeshechodron @karmazopajigme Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com) | |||
| 18 Feb 2022 | 68 | Lojong 47 - Sustain the unity of three things | 00:09:47 | |
Point 7: Tips, #47 - Sustain the unity of three things. 59 Days of Healing, a special series based on the Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind, a first millennium Tibetan Buddhist lojong text by Kadampa Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje, where we explore one maxim each day to build a strong foundation of understanding to integrate the practice into our lives. A great way to start the year--both Western, at the beginning of the series, and Tibetan, at the end! Lama Yeshe's everyday English rendering of the 59 maxims of the Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind, including brief comments, is available for download in her ebook Heal Transform Transcend: Notes on Kadampa Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje's Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind. PRAJNA SPARKS will return to its regular lunar calendar schedule of hour long episodes after this series. Look for new episodes on full moon days. COMMENTARIES ON THE SEVEN POINTS FOR HEALING DUALISTIC MIND The Great Path of Awakening, Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Thaye, Ken McLeod, translator The Practice of Lojong: Cultivating Compassion through Training the Mind, Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche The Intelligent Heart: A Guide to the Compassionate Life, Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche Training the Mind and Cultivating Loving-Kindness, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche Start Where You Are, Pema Chodron Follow Lama Yeshe on Instagram for visual posts of her everyday English rendering of the 59 maxims with brief commentary. Stay tuned for more news on practicing #lojong with the Prajna Sparks team. RESOURCES Join our Global Community for regular updates on Prajna Fire events with Yeshe and Zopa Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa offer individual spiritual counsel on formal Buddhist practice as well as innovative ways to integrate Buddhist perspective into your everyday life. Book Online at Prajna Fire with immediate confirmation (https://www.prajnafire.com/book-online) EMAIL US sparks@prajnafire.com FIND US on the Prajna Fire website (https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks) @prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter Sing-a-long with us on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUzGmU7c4_TJdLhG9R8IDA/videos) Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) IG: @karmayeshechodron @karmazopajigme Tania Israel (www.taniaisrael.com) Heather Stevenson (www.heatherstevenson.com) Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com) | |||
| 01 Aug 2023 | 116 | Four Contemplations to Reorient Mind | 00:34:08 | |
Lamas Yeshe and Zopa introduce the Four Thoughts that Turn the Mind to Dharma, a set of contemplations to reoirent the mind away from the deceptivenss of samsara and towards liberation and buddhahood. This is the first in a five-part series exploring each of the four thoughts and their contemplative practice, offered to support Prajna Fire's Ngondro Prep School. Read more about this dynamic four-month online program here. https://www.prajnafire.com/event-info/ngondro-prep PRAJNA SPARKS follows the lunar calendar. Look for new episodes on new and full moon days, and contemplation interludes on the quarter moons. Tibetan singing bowl interludes by Shivnee Ratna RESOURCES Meet Lama Yeshe & Lama Zopa, in Tricycle Magazine https://bit.ly/3xRySck Listen Contemplate Meditate, by Lama Yeshe, in Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Guide https://bit.ly/3ygFsus Meditative Inquiry, by Lama Yeshe, in Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Guide https://bit.ly/3xRySck FOLLOW US Join our Global Community for regular updates on Prajna Fire events with Yeshe and Zopa Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa offer individual spiritual counsel on formal Buddhist practice as well as innovative ways to integrate Buddhist perspective into your everyday life. Book Online at Prajna Fire with immediate confirmation (https://www.prajnafire.com/book-online) Check us out in the media https://www.prajnafire.com/media EMAIL US sparks@prajnafire.com FIND US on the Prajna Fire website (https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks) @prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUzGmU7c4_TJdLhG9R8IDA/videos) Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) IG: @karmayeshechodron @karmazopajigme Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com) | |||
| 30 Jan 2022 | 49 | Lojong 28 - Release all expectations of success | 00:09:34 | |
Point 6: Healing Promises #28 - Release all expectations of success. 59 Days of Healing, a special series based on the Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind, a first millennium Tibetan Buddhist lojong text by Kadampa Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje, where we explore one maxim each day to build a strong foundation of understanding to integrate the practice into our lives. A great way to start the year--both Western, at the beginning of the series, and Tibetan, at the end! Lama Yeshe's everyday English rendering of the 59 maxims of the Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind, including brief comments, is available for download in her ebook Heal Transform Transcend: Notes on Kadampa Geshe Chekawa Yeshe Dorje's Seven Points for Healing Dualistic Mind. PRAJNA SPARKS will return to its regular lunar calendar schedule of hour long episodes after this series. Look for new episodes on full moon days. COMMENTARIES ON THE SEVEN POINTS FOR HEALING DUALISTIC MIND The Great Path of Awakening, Jamgon Kongtrul Lodro Thaye, Ken McLeod, translator The Practice of Lojong: Cultivating Compassion through Training the Mind, Traleg Kyabgon Rinpoche The Intelligent Heart: A Guide to the Compassionate Life, Dzigar Kongtrul Rinpoche Training the Mind and Cultivating Loving-Kindness, Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche Start Where You Are, Pema Chodron Follow Lama Yeshe on Instagram for visual posts of her everyday English rendering of the 59 maxims with brief commentary. Stay tuned for more news on practicing #lojong with the Prajna Sparks team. RESOURCES Join our Global Community for regular updates on Prajna Fire events with Yeshe and Zopa Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa offer individual spiritual counsel on formal Buddhist practice as well as innovative ways to integrate Buddhist perspective into your everyday life. Book Online at Prajna Fire with immediate confirmation (https://www.prajnafire.com/book-online) EMAIL US sparks@prajnafire.com FIND US on the Prajna Fire website (https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks) @prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter Sing-a-long with us on YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUzGmU7c4_TJdLhG9R8IDA/videos) Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) IG: @karmayeshechodron @karmazopajigme Tania Israel (www.taniaisrael.com) Heather Stevenson (www.heatherstevenson.com) Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com) | |||