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PRAJNA SPARKS
by Prajna Fire
Integrating the Dharma teachings of Buddha Shakyamuni from the perspective of the Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism, by cultivating familiarity with prajna, or precise knowing, in progressively subtle degrees. Timely and accessible to contemporary seekers of any spiritual tradition, or none at all.Full episodes on new and full moon days. Contemplation interludes on the quarter moons.May all beings benefit!EMAIL [email protected] prajnafire.com/sparks @prajnasparks on Facebook Instagram TwitterLama Yeshe @karmayeshechodronLama Zopa @karmazopajigme
Episodes
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155 | Good Intentions
Good intentions matter. But how do we know whether our actions actually carry them? In this episode, Lama Yeshe explores the relationship between intention, action, and consequence. Another person’s response does not define what we meant, yet impact can offer valuable information about how...
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154 | Let Go
Lama Yeshe explores an understanding of letting go through the image of the clenched and open hand. What happens when the object of our grasp disappears, but the clench remains? And can we learn to release without erasing, rejecting, or loving less? Through teaching and meditative inquiry, we...
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153 | Pivot
Lama Yeshe explores how the pivot between samsara and nirvana offered in every present moment reveals where freedom has room to breathe. The episode offers a practical framework to apply off the cushion, in everyday life, for working with experience through three deceptively simple words: Things....
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152 | Not Knowing
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…
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151 | Integrity
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....
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150 | Self-love
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...
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149 | Bypass Whiplash
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...
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148 | Miracle of Yes
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…
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147 | Eros
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...
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146 | Ocean of Mind
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…
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145 | Loving
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...
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144 | Tonglen
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...
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143 | Praising the Buddha LIVE
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...
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142 | Dedicating Merit
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....
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141 | Trust
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...
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140 | Reorienting to Freedom
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...
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139 | Conduct
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…
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138 | Meditation
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,...
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137 | View
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…
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136 | Promise
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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REPLAY | Listen Contemplate Meditate
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...
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MOMENT | Bardo
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...
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135 | Unity
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…
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134 | Genuine Reality, Reasoning Style
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…
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133 | Genuine Reality, Meditation Style
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…
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132 | Apparent Reality
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…
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131 | Beyond Meditation
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…
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130 | One-Pointedness
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,...
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129 | Nonmeditation
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,...
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128 | One Taste
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...
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127 | Nonconceptuality
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...
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126 | New-ness
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...
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125 | Mind
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...
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124 | Bodhicitta
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...
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123 | Troubling Times
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...
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122 | Holidays! (du chen)
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...
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121 | Tame the Mind
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,...
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120 | Samsara is Tragic
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...
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BONUS | A Song of Awakeing
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…
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119 | Karma
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...
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118 | Mortality
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...
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117 | Priceless Human Existence
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...
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116 | Four Contemplations to Reorient Mind
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...
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115 | Being True
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...
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114 | Got Faith?
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...
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113 | To Forgive or Not to Forgive
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...
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112 | What is Nirvana?
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...
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111 | Integrating Dharma
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…
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110 | Precise Knowing - Prajna Paramita
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...
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109 | Meditative Concentration - Dhyana Paramita
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…
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Integrating the Dharma teachings of Buddha Shakyamuni from the perspective of the Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism, by cultivating familiarity with prajna, or precise knowing, in progressively subtle degrees. Timely and accessible to contemporary seekers of any spiritual tradition, or none at all.Full episodes on new and full moon days. Contemplation interludes on the quarter moons.May all beings benefit!EMAIL [email protected] prajnafire.com/sparks @prajnasparks on Facebook Instagram TwitterLama Yeshe @karmayeshechodronLama Zopa @karmazopajigme
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