Living Clarity

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]

Build Confidence Nothing Can Destroy

Gen Demo explains how to build a self-confidence that doesn’t depend on what we achieve or what others think of us. She shows how our potential, our everyday good actions, and our power to overcome negativities creates an unbreakable confidence and frees us from discouragement. Further reading in the following books: Meaningful to Behold [https://kadampa.org/book/meaningful-to-behold] Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life [https://kadampa.org/book/guide-to-the-bodhisattvas-way-of-life]

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]