Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Share PRAJNA SPARKS
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Or
PRAJNA SPARKS
PRAJNA SPARKS episodes
- 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
PRAJNA FIRE is a United States 501(c)(3) nonprofit religious organization. Your donation is tax-deductible to the extent allowed by applicable law.
Learn more about meditative inquiry and the integrative dharma practice of listening, contemplating, and meditating from Prajna Rising, our online journal.
PUBLISHED ARTICLES
https://www.prajnafire.com/media
Subscribe to Prajna Fire's newsletter on Substack
https://prajnafire.substack.com
FOLLOW US
Join the Prajna Fire Global Community
Private Teaching Sessions
Book Online at Prajna Fire with immediate confirmation (https://www.prajnafire.com/book-online)
EMAIL US [email protected]
FIND US on the Prajna Fire website (https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks)
@prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter
YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUzGmU7c4_TJdLhG9R8IDA/videos)
33 min - 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 FIRE is a United States 501(c)(3) nonprofit religious organization. Your donation is tax-deductible to the extent allowed by applicable law.
Learn more about meditative inquiry and the integrative dharma practice of listening, contemplating, and meditating from Prajna Rising, our online journal.
PUBLISHED ARTICLES
https://www.prajnafire.com/media
Subscribe to Prajna Fire's newsletter on Substack
https://prajnafire.substack.com
FOLLOW US
Join the Prajna Fire Global Community
Private Teaching Sessions
Book Online at Prajna Fire with immediate confirmation (https://www.prajnafire.com/book-online)
EMAIL US [email protected]
FIND US on the Prajna Fire website (https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks)
@prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter
YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUzGmU7c4_TJdLhG9R8IDA/videos)
31 min - 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 practice connect you with the deepest resources of mind's true nature on a daily basis.
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 organization. Your donation is tax-deductible to the extent allowed by applicable law.
Learn more about meditative inquiry and the integrative dharma practice of listening, contemplating, and meditating from Prajna Rising, our online journal.
PUBLISHED ARTICLES
https://www.prajnafire.com/media
Subscribe to Prajna Fire's newsletter on Substack
https://prajnafire.substack.com
FOLLOW US
Join the Prajna Fire Global Community
Private Teaching Sessions
Book Online at Prajna Fire with immediate confirmation (https://www.prajnafire.com/book-online)
EMAIL US [email protected]
FIND US on the Prajna Fire website (https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks)
@prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter
YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUzGmU7c4_TJdLhG9R8IDA/videos)
37 min - 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 practice of praise and grateful respect to the Buddha. We invite you to incorporate into your practice to start your day on Monday and all four great Holy Days of the Tibetan Buddhist calendar that celebrate the life of the Buddha.
A pdf of the text for the practice is available on our website at https://www.prajnafire.com/resources
THE PRAJNA SPARKS PODCAST CELEBRATES ITS FIVE YEAR ANNIVERSARY TODAY
TO ALLOW TIME AND SPACE TO DISCERN WHERE TO TAKE THE PODCAST GOING FORWARD WE WILL BE ON HIATUS UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE
STAY TUNED, AND THANK YOU FOR ALL YOUR SUPPORT!
#buddha #buddhashakyamuni #buddhanature #Mahamudra #buddhism #buddhistmeditation #tibetanbuddhism
Resources for this episode
Make a dana offering
PRAJNA FIRE is a United States 501(c)(3) nonprofit religious organization. Your donation is tax-deductible to the extent allowed by applicable law.
Learn more about the integrative dharma practice of listening, contemplating, and meditating from Prajna Rising, our online journal.
Meet Lama Yeshe & Lama Zopa, in Tricycle Magazine https://bit.ly/3xRySck
PUBLISHED ARTICLEShttps://www.prajnafire.com/media
Prajna Fire on Substack
https://prajnafire.substack.com
PRAJNA SPARKS follows the lunar calendar. Look for new episodes on the new moons.
Tibetan singing bowl interludes by Shivnee Ratna
We are proud to be featured on Feedspot's Top Buddhist Podcasts lists--check them out for more great listens!
FOLLOW US
Join our Global Community for regular updates on Prajna Fire events with Yeshe and Zopa
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. Book Online at Prajna Fire with immediate confirmation (https://www.prajnafire.com/book-online)
Check us out in the media https://www.prajnafire.com/media
EMAIL US [email protected]
FIND US on the Prajna Fire website (https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks)
@prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter
YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUzGmU7c4_TJdLhG9R8IDA/videos)
Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) IG: @karmayeshechodron @karmazopajigme
Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com)
56 min - 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.
#buddhanature #Mahamudra #buddhism #buddhistmeditation #merit #dedicating merit
Resources for this episode
Majjhima Nikāya 29. The Greater Discourse on the Simile of the Heartwood (Bodhi trans.)
https://suttacentral.net/mn29/en/bodhi?lang=en&reference=none&highlight=false
Make a dana offering
PRAJNA FIRE is a United States 501(c)(3) nonprofit religious organization. Your donation is tax-deductible to the extent allowed by applicable law.
Learn more about the integrative dharma practice of listening, contemplating, and meditating from Prajna Rising, our online journal.
Meet Lama Yeshe & Lama Zopa, in Tricycle Magazine https://bit.ly/3xRySck
PUBLISHED ARTICLEShttps://www.prajnafire.com/media
Prajna Fire on Substack
https://prajnafire.substack.com
PRAJNA SPARKS follows the lunar calendar. Look for new episodes on the new moons.
Tibetan singing bowl interludes by Shivnee Ratna
FOLLOW US
Join our Global Community for regular updates on Prajna Fire events with Yeshe and Zopa
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. Book Online at Prajna Fire with immediate confirmation (https://www.prajnafire.com/book-online)
Check us out in the media https://www.prajnafire.com/media
EMAIL US [email protected]
FIND US on the Prajna Fire website (https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks)
@prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter
YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUzGmU7c4_TJdLhG9R8IDA/videos)
Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) IG: @karmayeshechodron @karmazopajigme
Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com)
43 min - 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 #Mahamudra #buddhism #buddhistmeditation
Resources for this episode
Majjhima Nikāya 29. The Greater Discourse on the Simile of the Heartwood (Bodhi trans.)
https://suttacentral.net/mn29/en/bodhi?lang=en&reference=none&highlight=false
Make a dana offering
PRAJNA FIRE is a United States 501(c)(3) nonprofit religious organization. Your donation is tax-deductible to the extent allowed by applicable law.
Learn more about the integrative dharma practice of listening, contemplating, and meditating from Prajna Rising, our online journal.
Meet Lama Yeshe & Lama Zopa, in Tricycle Magazine https://bit.ly/3xRySck
PUBLISHED ARTICLEShttps://www.prajnafire.com/media
Prajna Fire on Substack
https://prajnafire.substack.com
PRAJNA SPARKS follows the lunar calendar. Look for new episodes on the new moons.
Tibetan singing bowl interludes by Shivnee Ratna
FOLLOW US
Join our Global Community for regular updates on Prajna Fire events with Yeshe and Zopa
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. Book Online at Prajna Fire with immediate confirmation (https://www.prajnafire.com/book-online)
Check us out in the media https://www.prajnafire.com/media
EMAIL US [email protected]
FIND US on the Prajna Fire website (https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks)
@prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter
YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUzGmU7c4_TJdLhG9R8IDA/videos)
Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) IG: @karmayeshechodron @karmazopajigme
Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com)
41 min - 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 mind away from the deceptivenss of samsara and towards liberation and buddhahood.
This is a replay of the first in a five-part series we aired in 2023, exploring each of the four thoughts and their contemplative practice. These are contemplations well worth revisiting, time and again.
Download free guided practices for the four contemplations and more here: https://www.prajnafire.com/downloads
PRAJNA SPARKS follows the lunar calendar. Look for new episodes on new and full moon days, and contemplation interludes on the quarter moons.
Tibetan singing bowl interludes by Shivnee Ratna
RESOURCES
Meet Lama Yeshe & Lama Zopa, in Tricycle Magazine https://bit.ly/3xRySck
Listen Contemplate Meditate, by Lama Yeshe, in Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Guide https://bit.ly/3ygFsus
Meditative Inquiry, by Lama Yeshe, in Buddhadharma: The Practitioner's Guide https://bit.ly/3xRySck
FOLLOW US
Join our Global Community for regular updates on Prajna Fire events with Yeshe and Zopa
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. Book Online at Prajna Fire with immediate confirmation (https://www.prajnafire.com/book-online)
Check us out in the media https://www.prajnafire.com/media
EMAIL US [email protected]
FIND US on the Prajna Fire website (https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks)
@prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter
YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUzGmU7c4_TJdLhG9R8IDA/videos)
Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) IG: @karmayeshechodron @karmazopajigme
Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com)
35 min - 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 Zopa explore what conduct is generally and in the context of this triad, as well as how the three elementsrelate dynamically to one another, and cohesively to other paradigms of the Buddha's teachings.
Full lyrics and audio with melody for the Milarepa song "Profound Definitive Meaning Sung on the Snowy Range," translated into English and arranged for song by Jim Scott and Ari Goldfield, which is used for the contemplation segment of this episode, is available at:
https://ktgrinpoche.org/songs/profound-definitive-meaning-sung-snowy-range
This episode was recorded at Pullahari Monastery in Nepal--can you catch the songbirds, aircraft, and dogs that are part of our daily soundtrack here?
Make a dana offering
PRAJNA FIRE is a United States 501(c)(3) nonprofit religious organization. Your donation is tax-deductible to the extent allowed by applicable law.
Learn more about the integrative dharma practice of listening, contemplating, and meditating from Prajna Rising, our online journal.
Meet Lama Yeshe & Lama Zopa, in Tricycle Magazine https://bit.ly/3xRySck
PUBLISHED ARTICLEShttps://www.prajnafire.com/media
Prajna Fire on Substack
https://prajnafire.substack.com
PRAJNA SPARKS follows the lunar calendar. Look for new episodes on the new moons.
Tibetan singing bowl interludes by Shivnee Ratna
FOLLOW US
Join our Global Community for regular updates on Prajna Fire events with Yeshe and Zopa
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. Book Online at Prajna Fire with immediate confirmation (https://www.prajnafire.com/book-online)
Check us out in the media https://www.prajnafire.com/media
EMAIL US [email protected]
FIND US on the Prajna Fire website (https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks)
@prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter
YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUzGmU7c4_TJdLhG9R8IDA/videos)
Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) IG: @karmayeshechodron @karmazopajigme
Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com)
48 min - 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, and segue into everyday integration of the Buddha's teachings through the third point of this triad, Conduct.
Make a dana offering
PRAJNA FIRE is a United States 501(c)(3) nonprofit religious organization. Your donation is tax-deductible to the extent allowed by applicable law.
Learn more about the integrative dharma practice of listening, contemplating, and meditating from Prajna Rising, our online journal.
Meet Lama Yeshe & Lama Zopa, in Tricycle Magazine https://bit.ly/3xRySck
PUBLISHED ARTICLEShttps://www.prajnafire.com/media
Prajna Fire on Substack
https://prajnafire.substack.com
PRAJNA SPARKS follows the lunar calendar. Look for new episodes on the new moons.
Tibetan singing bowl interludes by Shivnee Ratna
FOLLOW US
Join our Global Community for regular updates on Prajna Fire events with Yeshe and Zopa
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. Book Online at Prajna Fire with immediate confirmation (https://www.prajnafire.com/book-online)
Check us out in the media https://www.prajnafire.com/media
EMAIL US [email protected]
FIND US on the Prajna Fire website (https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks)
@prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter
YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUzGmU7c4_TJdLhG9R8IDA/videos)
Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) IG: @karmayeshechodron @karmazopajigme
Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com)
27 min - 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 mind's true nature.
Lamas Yeshe and Zopa explore what view is, how it helps us navigate our lives with skill and grace, and lay the groundwork for exploring two important related elements, Meditation and Conduct.
Read When Bodhisattvas Break, Lama Yeshe's article on inspiration from the mighty bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara
https://bit.ly/BodhisattvasBreak
Or watch Lama Zopa's live video comments from our weekly sangha practice
https://bit.ly/InspirationDarkPRAJNA SPARKS follows the lunar calendar. Look for new episodes on the new moons.
Tibetan singing bowl interludes by Shivnee Ratna
RESOURCES
Meet Lama Yeshe & Lama Zopa, in Tricycle Magazine https://bit.ly/3xRySck
PUBLISHED ARTICLEShttps://www.prajnafire.com/media
Prajna Fire on Substack
https://prajnafire.substack.com
FOLLOW US
Join our Global Community for regular updates on Prajna Fire events with Yeshe and Zopa
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. Book Online at Prajna Fire with immediate confirmation (https://www.prajnafire.com/book-online)
Check us out in the media https://www.prajnafire.com/media
EMAIL US [email protected]
FIND US on the Prajna Fire website (https://www.prajnafire.com/sparks)
@prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter
YouTube (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRUzGmU7c4_TJdLhG9R8IDA/videos)
Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa (www.prajnafire.com) IG: @karmayeshechodron @karmazopajigme
Shivnee Ratna, Tibetan singing bowls (www.shivgauree.com)
38 min
About PRAJNA SPARKS
From the publisher's feed
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]
VISIT prajnafire.com/sparks
@prajnasparks on Facebook Instagram Twitter
Lama Yeshe @karmayeshechodron
Lama Zopa @karmazopajigme
More shows like PRAJNA SPARKS
Behind the Bastards
15,573 Listeners