PRAJNA SPARKS

Eight worldly dharmas--pleasure/pain, gain/loss, praise/blame, fame/shame--things we chase and avoid that complicate our lives. Lama Zopa guides an experiential practice beginning with shamatha (English: tranquility, or calm abiding) and leading into meditative inquiry, an insight practice from the Tibetan that invokes, instills, and integrates prajna, precise knowing.

EPISODE CONTENTS

00:31 Teaching by Lama Yeshe 19:16 Conversation with Lama Yeshe and Tania Israel 42:20 Song: Pleasure, praise, gain, and fame (to the tune of Fame), lyrics by Tania Israel, vocals by Heather Stevenson 44:52 Guided meditation by Lama Zopa

PRAJNA SPARKS follows the lunar calendar. Look for new episodes on full moon days.

Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa offer individual spiritual counsel on formal Buddhist practice as well as innovative ways to integrate Buddhist perspective into your everyday life. Online booking with immediate confirmation.

FIND US

https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks  @prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter   Sing-a-long with us on YouTube

Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) Tania Israel (www.taniaisrael.com) Heather Stevenson (www.heatherstevenson.com) Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com)

Nirvana, the cessation of dukkha (in English: suffering, discontent, unsatisfying). Yeshe and Tania have a conversation about liberation. Lama Zopa leads a guided meditation presenting shamatha (English: tranquility, or calm abiding) practice and meditative inquiry, an insight practice from the Tibetan that invokes, instills, and integrates prajna, precise knowing.

And Heather sings an emotional rendition of “Liberation,” to the tune of Leonard Cohen’s “Hallelujah.” 

Shivnee Ratna is our Tibetan singing bowl artist.

EPISODE CONTENTS

00:36 Teaching by Lama Yeshe

PRAJNA SPARKS follows the lunar calendar. Look for new episodes on full moon days.

Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa offer individual spiritual counsel on formal Buddhist practice as well as innovative ways to integrate Buddhist perspective into your everyday life. Online booking with immediate confirmation.

EMAIL US [email protected]

FIND US

https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks @prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter Sing-a-long with us on YouTube

Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) Tania Israel (www.taniaisrael.com) Heather Stevenson (www.heatherstevenson.com) Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com)

Craving, the origin of dukkha (suffering, unsatisfactoriness, lack of fulfillment). Yeshe and Tania have a conversation about marshmallows. Lama Zopa leads a guided meditation presenting shamatha (English: tranquility, or calm abiding) practice and an analytical meditation focused on an experiential analysis of craving.

EPISODE CONTENTS

00:34 Teaching by Lama Yeshe 18:03 Conversation with Lama Yeshe and Tania Israel 40:51 Song: Craving Subsides (to the tune of The Circle Game), lyrics by Tania Israel, vocals by Heather Stevenson 45:38 Guided meditation by Lama Zopa

PRAJNA SPARKS follows the lunar calendar. Look for new episodes on the new and full moons (USA Mountain Time).

Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa offer individual spiritual counsel on formal Buddhist practice as well as innovative ways to integrate Buddhist perspective into your everyday life. Online booking with immediate confirmation.

EMAIL US [email protected]

FIND US

https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks @prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter Sing-a-long with us on YouTube

Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) Tania Israel (www.taniaisrael.com) Heather Stevenson (www.heatherstevenson.com) Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com)

Lama Yeshe teaches about the challenges and benefits of being cloistered, and you learn a bit about what a 3-year retreat is like. Plus, a Hamilton-inspired song! Lama Zopa leads a guided meditation presenting both shamatha (tranquility) practice and analytical meditation.

EPISODE CONTENTS

00:30 Teaching by Lama Yeshe

PRAJNA SPARKS follows the lunar calendar. Look for new episodes on the new and full moons (USA Mountain Time).

Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa offer individual spiritual counsel on formal Buddhist practice as well as innovative ways to integrate Buddhist perspective into your everyday life. Online booking with immediate confirmation.

EMAIL US [email protected]

FIND US

https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks

Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com)

Lama Yeshe teaches about listening, contemplation, and meditation, the foundations of integrative practice; and you learn why the podcast is called Prajna Sparks. Tania Israel joins in for contemplation discussion, then Heather Stevenson sings a song with lyrics Tania wrote as part of her contemplative practice. Lama Zopa leads a guided practice on shamatha, tranquility meditation. Tibetan singing bowl interludes composed and performed by Shivnee Ratna.

EPISODE CONTENTS

00:27 Teaching by Lama Yeshe

PRAJNA SPARKS follows the lunar calendar. Look for new episodes on the new and full moons (USA Mountain Time).

Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa offer individual spiritual counsel on formal Buddhist practice as well as innovative ways to integrate Buddhist perspective into your everyday life. Online booking with immediate confirmation.

EMAIL US [email protected]

FIND US

www.prajnafire.com/sparks

Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com)

A podcast about the teachings of Buddha Shakyamuni from the perspective of the Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism, where we listen to a Dharma teaching, contemplate it through conversation and song, and engage in guided meditation.  

Prajna Sparks is supported in part by a grant from the Hemera Foundation Tara Project Teachers' Support Fund.

EMAIL US [email protected]

FIND US

www.prajnafire.com/sparks

@prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter

Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com)

Tania Israel (www.taniaisrael.com)

Heather Stevenson (www.heatherstevenson.com)

Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com)

Hemera Foundation (www.hemera.org)

A podcast about the teachings of Buddha Shakyamuni from the perspective of the Kagyu lineage of Tibetan Buddhism, where we listen to a Dharma teaching, contemplate it through conversation and song, and engage in guided meditation.

A brief welcome and description.