Kadampa Podcasts

Below, we’ve included a selection of featured podcasts that are good for everyone. If you enjoy listening to podcasts, why not hop over to Kadampa.org and discover hundreds of inspiring short talks and guided meditations with qualified teachers from Kadampa centres worldwide?

We can learn to control our mind every day. Our mind can give us a happy life or a wretched life. Add any virtuous mental factor to your mind and your whole mind becomes happy and peaceful. We can learn to change our minds from unhappy to happy by putting Dharma into practice in our daily lives.

We have survived the difficulties in our life so far therefore we can feel encouraged that we can cope. Because thoughts and feelings are transient, they will change naturally, however the longer we hold onto negative thoughts, the heavier they become so we need to learn to drop these negative thoughts immediately and not dwell on them. This podcast offers helpful advice to help us not be overwhelmed by the never-ending challenges life gives us. This podcast is an extract from a teaching given by Kadam Bridget Hayes at Nagarjuna KMC, UK.

This is a great introduction to why Buddhists say that happiness depends on the mind. In this podcast, Gen Demo explains that we can understand from our own experience that our happiness depends on our mind. She uses everyday examples that we can easily relate to and helps us come to our own conclusions on this important topic. This is an extract from a talk based on the book How to Transform Your Life by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso. How to Transform Your Life is available as a free eBook, a gift from the author. Details on how to download the book are at the very bottom of the webpage.

Here Gen Norbu presents meditation as a step-by-step approach to developing a better state of mind. First, using breathing meditation to calm the mind, then looking at how meditation can address specific, practical problems. This extract is taken from a teaching given by Gen Norbu at KMC North Carolina, US and is based on the book Introduction to Buddhism by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso. Introduction to Buddhism is available as a paperback, eBook and audiobook from Tharpa.

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