Next Monday, July 28, 2025, is Chokor Duchen, the Great Holy Day of Turning the Wheel of Dharma, commemorating the first public teaching of the Buddha Shakyamuni, the Four Truths of Noble Beings.
In a live recording from Chokor Duchen 2024, Lamas Yeshe and Zopa invite us to delve into this living practice of praise and grateful respect to the Buddha. We invite you to incorporate into your practice to start your day on Monday and all four great Holy Days of the Tibetan Buddhist calendar that celebrate the life of the Buddha.
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What is merit, why is dedicating it so important in Buddhist practice, and how do we dedicate to optimize our spiritual heart and path?
Lamas Yeshe and Zopa invite us to explore this vital ingredient and enlivening mindset, one of three sublime principles in all Mahayana Buddhist practice.
#buddhanature #Mahamudra #buddhism #buddhistmeditation #merit #dedicating merit
Resources for this episode
Majjhima Nikāya 29. The Greater Discourse on the Simile of the Heartwood (Bodhi trans.)
https://suttacentral.net/mn29/en/bodhi?lang=en&reference=none&highlight=false
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What does TRUST have to do with Buddhist practice?
Lamas Yeshe and Zopa invite us to explore this vital building block of wellbeing, looking deeply into how a revolution of trust in buddhanature forms a easeful way to allow its progressive actualization into our everyday life.
#buddhanature #Mahamudra #buddhism #buddhistmeditation
Resources for this episode
Majjhima Nikāya 29. The Greater Discourse on the Simile of the Heartwood (Bodhi trans.)
https://suttacentral.net/mn29/en/bodhi?lang=en&reference=none&highlight=false
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Reorienting the mind towards freedom and embodying our true nature fully and interupptedly breeds a steadfast heart and flexible mind.
In this special replay episode, Lamas Yeshe and Zopa share the vital practice of contemplating the Four Thoughts that Turn the Mind to Dharma, which reoirents the mind away from the deceptivenss of samsara and towards liberation and buddhahood.
This is a replay of the first in a five-part series we aired in 2023, exploring each of the four thoughts and their contemplative practice. These are contemplations well worth revisiting, time and again.
Download free guided practices for the four contemplations and more here: https://www.prajnafire.com/downloads
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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
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CONDUCT is both an expression of our integrity with the View of the Buddha Shakyamuni's teachings cultivated through meditation, and a potent influence on our experience, our world, and our spiritual development.
In the third of three episodes on view, meditation, and conduct, Lamas Yeshe and Zopa explore what conduct is generally and in the context of this triad, as well as how the three elementsrelate dynamically to one another, and cohesively to other paradigms of the Buddha's teachings.
Full lyrics and audio with melody for the Milarepa song "Profound Definitive Meaning Sung on the Snowy Range," translated into English and arranged for song by Jim Scott and Ari Goldfield, which is used for the contemplation segment of this episode, is available at:
https://ktgrinpoche.org/songs/profound-definitive-meaning-sung-snowy-range
This episode was recorded at Pullahari Monastery in Nepal--can you catch the songbirds, aircraft, and dogs that are part of our daily soundtrack here?
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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.
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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
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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:
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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.
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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
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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
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PRAJNA SPARKS follows the lunar calendar. Look for new episodes on the new moons.
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The Two Truths in Unity is more than abstract Buddhist philosophy with no impact on our lives and hearts.
In this episode, Lamas Yeshe & Zopa present an integrated approach to engaging listening, contemplating, and meditating on the Two Truths of apparent and genuine reality in Unity.
They provide a few examples of realtime ways to engage that Unity so that it impacts our lives here and now. Their discussion is interspersed with resting meditaiton and meditative inquiry.
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Lamas Yeshe & Zopa present Genuine Reality from the stance of reasoning, on its own, as a counterpart to our previous episode.
Hear what "genuine reality" means in the Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism. Learn how to employ our powers of reasoning to connect with what is real based on our own inward experience.
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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
Friends are empty forms, like a water moon
To think of them as being truly real
Will only make your many sufferings increase
To know they’re empty forms, like a water moon
Will make illusion-like samadhi increase
Compassion free of clinging will increase
And non-referential view will also increase
And meditation that’s fixation-free
And conduct free of doer, deed increase
Of all the many marvels, this, by far the most marvelous!
Of all the many wonders, this, the most wonderful!
Translated and arranged by Jim Scott, Marpa House, England, August 1997. Translation copyright 2012, Jim Scott
Find other song lyrics and accompanying audio tracks here:
https://www.ktgrinpoche.org/songs/friends-yogis-and-yoginis
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 Nonmeditation, the practice, meditative experience, and realization of wholness, unity, complementarity of all things in emptiness.
Contemplate quotes about Nonmeditation 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
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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
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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
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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
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