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Not knowing as mystery is moving, inspiring, and initiating, alive to not knowing that it knows. Join Lama Yeshe for a spacious Dharma talk, active contemplation, and guided meditation on living from the fullness of who we are. FULL MOON SIT is an ongoing series offering Tibetan Buddhist meditation instruction and practice ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Make a dana offering⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ PRAJNA FIRE is a United States 501(c)(...

Integrity not as moral perfection, but as the growing coherence of a life that gathers every experience into the path without letting any fragment overrule the whole. Join Lama Yeshe for a spacious Dharma talk, active contemplation, and guided meditation on living from the fullness of who we are. FULL MOON SIT is an ongoing series offering Tibetan Buddhist meditation instruction and practice ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠...

What is “self-love”? In contemporary psychology and self-help, self-love is often framed as self-acceptance, self-worth, and meeting our emotional needs with care. These approaches can be deeply supportive—but they may also rest on a limited view of the “self” they are trying to love. In this episode of Prajna Sparks , we explore a broader, more nuanced perspective drawn from the Mahayana Buddhist...

Meditation for meeting our deepest emotions without bypassing or backlash guided by Lands Yeshe FULL MOON SIT is an ongoing series offering Tibetan Buddhist meditation instruction and practice ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Make a dana offering⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ 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 medit...

Lama Yeshe guides a practice of The Miracle of Yes, consisting of meditative inquiry and deep rest that supports nervous-system regulation, relational clarity, and a direct taste of the security and openness of infinite potentiality, shunyata, emptiness. FULL MOON SIT is an ongoing series offering Tibetan Buddhist meditation instruction and practice ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Make a dana offering ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ PRAJNA FI...

For Valentine’s Day, this Full Moon Sit explores Eros as the life-force coursing through experiences of body, heart, and mind. Lama Yeshe guides the practice from somatic vitality into relational warmth, flowing into creativity, sensual charge, and presence, then ending with integration, to open into uncontrived experience. FULL MOON SIT is an ongoing series offering Tibetan Buddhist meditation in...

Lama Yeshe guides a meditation of immersive presence in our own consciousness incorporating elements of shamatha (tranquility) and vipashyana (insight) practice. FULL MOON SIT is an ongoing series offering Tibetan Buddhist meditation instruction and practice ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Make a dana offering ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ PRAJNA FIRE is a United States 501(c)(3) nonprofit religious organization. Your donation is tax-deductible...

Lama Yeshe guides a meditation that invokes creative imagination to cultivate familiarity with our innate quality of being love within a space of active repose. FULL MOON SIT is an ongoing series offering Tibetan Buddhist meditation instruction and practice ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Make a dana offering ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ PRAJNA FIRE is a United States 501(c)(3) nonprofit religious organization. Your donation is tax-deductible to...

Lama Yeshe guides a rich and delicate practice of tonglen , or open-handed welcome. Instructions include shamatha or tranquility meditation, meditative inquiry, and an intimate tonglen practice that begins with you, your joys and aspirations, your pains and challenges. We invite you to let this practice connect you with the deepest resources of mind's true nature on a daily basis. FULL MOON SI...

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...

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 Ma...

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 Discours...

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...

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 elem...

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 t...

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...

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 Avalokit...

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 prac...

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...

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. T...

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. PRAJNA SPARKS follows the lunar calendar. Look for new episodes on the new moons. Ti...

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...

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...

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...

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...