PRAJNA SPARKS

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...

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 meditat...

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 c...

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. PRA...

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...

What is mind? Lamas Yeshe & Zopa unveil the tip of the iceberg that is the experiential exploration of this quintessential sphere of experience. 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 FOLLO...

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 Tricyc...

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 Tricycl...

Lamas Yeshe and Zopa invite everyone into the loveliness of celebrating the Buddha Shakyamuni throughout the year in the practice of du chen - grand times, festivals, or quite simply, holidays at four points in the Tibetan calendar. The Lamp Prayer recited during the meditation portion of this episode is available here including Tibetan pronunciation and English text. https://www.prajnafire.com/sp...

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 Drup...

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. R...

In this bonus episode, Lama Yeshe reads her piece "A Song of Awakening," published in the collaborative offering "Glimpses of Buddhanature" in the Fall 2023 issue of Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Guide . Read the full article online here https://www.lionsroar.com/glimpses-of-buddhanature/ You are welcome to share this free audio track with anyone who may benefit from lis...

Lamas Yeshe and Zopa discuss karmic cause and effect, the thrid 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. Rea...

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 suppor...

Lamas Yeshe and Zopa describe the Priceless Human Existence, first 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 Pre...

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 fo...

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...

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 week...

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...

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. Today, June 2, 2023, is Saga Dawa Duchen the Tibetan Buddhist holiday commemorating the birth, enlightenment, and parinirvana of the Buddha Shakyamuni. What better day to dive into an exporlation of just what is meant...

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 importa...

Lamas Yeshe and Zopa present the practice leading onwards toward prajnaparamita, the transcendent perfection of precise knowing, on and off the cushion. Read Yeshe's article on Right Effort ⁠⁠in the May 2023 issue of Lion's Roar Magazine on their website⁠⁠ and in ⁠⁠our online journal, Prajna Rising⁠⁠ . https://bit.ly/LR-RightEffort Tibetan singing bowl interludes by Shivnee Ratna PRAJNA SP...

Lamas Yeshe and Zopa present the practice leading onwards toward dhyana paramita, the transcendent perfection of meditative concentration, on and off the cushion. Read Yeshe's article on Right Effort ⁠in the May 2023 issue of Lion's Roar Magazine on their website⁠ and in ⁠our online journal, Prajna Rising⁠ . https://bit.ly/LR-RightEffort Tibetan singing bowl interludes by Shivnee Ratna PRA...