Why do relationships sometimes hurt?

Your Whole Life Can Be Meditation

Gen Chodor gives advice on overcoming a common objection to meditating: “I don’t have the time to meditate”. He explains how any activity — eating, driving, even watching Netflix — can become a meditation practice. Learn how to do regular daily activities with special states of mind that transform life into the path to happiness. Further reading in the following book: How to Understand the Mind [https://kadampa.org/book/how-to-understand-the-mind]

Live Like a Spiritual Traveler

Gen Tara explains how our life completely transforms when we begin to see ourselves not as permanent residents of this life but as travelers passing through. She teaches how this view loosens our grip on gain and loss, redefines daily life as an opportunity to invest in ourselves spiritually, and enables us to live lightly and joyfully. Further reading in the following books: Joyful Path of Good Fortune [https://kadampa.org/book/joyful-path-of-good-fortune] Living Meaningfully, Dying Joyfully [https://kadampa.org/book/living-meaningfully-dying-joyfully]

Why Patience Is True Strength

Gen-la Jampa introduces patient acceptance as the genuine solution to daily problems. He challenges the modern view that patience is a weakness, revealing instead the inner strength required to refuse our well-worn mental grooves of intolerance — and the mental freedom that comes from accepting what is. Discover how changing our mind from resistance to acceptance is a revolutionary approach to overcoming suffering. Further reading in the following book: How to Solve Our Human Problems [https://kadampa.org/book/how-to-solve-our-human-problems]

Wisdom that changes the world

In this episode, Kadam Mick Marcon explores how wisdom can literally change the way we see the world — and why that matters for our everyday happiness. He shares real life stories that illustrate how due to ignorance we are deceived by appearances and how simply by turning to our meditation practice we can dispel fear and confusion.

Why do relationships sometimes hurt?

In this episode, Gen Kelsang Leksang explores one of life’s great mysteries — why do the people we care about most sometimes cause us the greatest pain? She begins by drawing a clear distinction between two things we often mistake for the same feeling: love and attachment. One is a source of lasting peace; the other, she explains, is like chasing a mirage. Through relatable examples she exposes the negative emotional mechanics functioning in our closest relationships. And offers a way out. Further reading in the following book: How to Transform Your Life [https://kadampa.org/book/how-to-transform-your-life]