Delusions Are Our Only Enemy

Making Hardship Your Spiritual Teacher

Gen-la Jampa teaches how to transform unavoidable suffering into spiritual growth. He shares the story of the Indian master Atisha who regarded his rude cook as his most precious companion because he helped him develop patience, explains how acceptance purifies negative karma, and offers practical advice about starting with small annoyances to gradually build unshakable inner peace. Further reading in the following book: How to Solve Our Human Problems [https://kadampa.org/book/how-to-solve-our-human-problems]

How to Change Your Experiences

Kadam Bridget explores how meditation and mindfulness can help us change the direction of our life by changing what karma is ripening for us. She explains why our negative thoughts are not our true nature and offers practical advice for noticing unhelpful mental habits before they carry us into more suffering. Further reading in the following book: How to Solve Our Human Problems [https://kadampa.org/book/how-to-solve-our-human-problems]

The Joy of Overcoming Distraction

Kadam Morten explains how observing the mind itself helps us overcome our greatest obstacle: distraction. He reveals how an untrained mind habitually focuses on things that causes us to suffer and shows how developing concentration allows us to carry inner peace and happiness with us everywhere we go.

Delusions Are Our Only Enemy

Gen Devi explains that our real problem is never other people or outer conditions, but the distorted states of mind called delusions. She reveals the vast, pure potential hidden beneath them — like a clear sky behind clouds — and shows how these mental habits take hold, and why we can always change them. Further reading in the following book: How to Understand the Mind [https://kadampa.org/book/how-to-understand-the-mind]

The Real Source Of Loneliness & Pain

Gen Gomlam explains that our worst mental habit — desirous attachment — is very sneaky. Unlike the pain of anger or jealousy, attachent actually feels good at first. It exaggerates people’s good qualities and hides the bad, creating an illusion of perfection that inevitably leads to pain. Further reading in the following book: How to Understand the Mind [https://kadampa.org/book/how-to-understand-the-mind]