PRAJNA SPARKS

What is humility? What is it not? And why is it important in our lives and spiritual path?

CONTENTS

Tibetan singing bowl interludes by Shivnee Ratna

PRAJNA SPARKS follows the lunar calendar. Look for new episodes on new and full moon days, and contemplation interludes on the quarter moons.

LAMA YESHE

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RESOURCES

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Yeshe and Zopa discuss your questions from last week's Merit episode in this Contemplation interlude...

Tibetan singing bowl interludes by Shivnee Ratna

PRAJNA SPARKS follows the lunar calendar. Look for new episodes on new and full moon days, and contemplation interludes on the quarter moons.

KEEP UP WITH US

Follow Lama Yeshe on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/karmayeshechodron/

Hear her story on Opening Dharma Access: Listening to BIPOC Teachers https://ihr.fm/3uwqxZW

And follow her in a guided practice of Tonglen Meditation & Sacred Creativity https://ihr.fm/3Lk9Kjy

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)

EMAIL US [email protected]

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@prajnasparks on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter

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

Merit is an intangible thing, more qualitative than quantitative. How can we understand it better? What effect does it have on our lives and spiritual practice?

Tibetan singing bowl interludes by Shivnee Ratna

PRAJNA SPARKS follows the lunar calendar. Look for new episodes on new and full moon days, and contemplation interludes on the quarter moons.

LAMA YESHE

Follow Lama Yeshe on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/karmayeshechodron/

Hear her story on Opening Dharma Access: Listening to BIPOC Teachers https://ihr.fm/3uwqxZW

And follow her in a guided practice of Tonglen Meditation & Sacred Creativity https://ihr.fm/3Lk9Kjy

RESOURCES

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)

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)

Yeshe and Zopa discuss your questions from the Samsara episode in this Contemplation interlude...

Tibetan singing bowl interludes by Shivnee Ratna

PRAJNA SPARKS follows the lunar calendar. Look for new episodes on new and full moon days, and contemplation interludes on the quarter moons.

RESOURCES

Read about A Life of Beauty in this article from our online journal, Prajna Rising:  https://www.prajnafire.com/post/a-life-of-beauty

Register for the Living Beautifully practice intensive with Yeshe here: https://www.prajnafire.com/event-info/living-beautifully

KEEP UP WITH US

Follow Lama Yeshe on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/karmayeshechodron/

Hear her story on Opening Dharma Access: Listening to BIPOC Teachers https://ihr.fm/3uwqxZW

And follow her in a guided practice of Tonglen Meditation & Sacred Creativity https://ihr.fm/3Lk9Kjy

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)

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)

What exactly is samsara? A place? A metaphor? A state of mind? How can we understand samsara in a way that is integral to living a fulfilling and meaningful life, rather than an abstract concept? 

Tibetan singing bowl interludes by Shivnee Ratna

PRAJNA SPARKS follows the lunar calendar. Look for new episodes on new and full moon days, and contemplation interludes on the quarter moons.

LAMA YESHE

Follow Lama Yeshe on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/karmayeshechodron/

Hear her story on Opening Dharma Access: Listening to BIPOC Teachers https://ihr.fm/3uwqxZW

And follow her in a guided practice of Tonglen Meditation & Sacred Creativity https://ihr.fm/3Lk9Kjy

RESOURCES

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)

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)

Yeshe and Zopa discuss your questions from the Sacred Creativity episode in this Contemplation interlude...

Tibetan singing bowl interludes by Shivnee Ratna

PRAJNA SPARKS follows the lunar calendar. Look for new episodes on new and full moon days, and contemplation interludes on the quarter moons.

LAMA YESHE

Follow Lama Yeshe on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/karmayeshechodron/

Hear her story on Opening Dharma Access: Listening to BIPOC Teachers https://ihr.fm/3uwqxZW

And follow her in a guided practice of Tonglen Meditation & Sacred Creativity https://ihr.fm/3Lk9Kjy

RESOURCES

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)

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)

How do we break out of dualistic perception while still habituated to dualistic perception? In this episode we explore "sacred creativity," a way of understanding the view that bridges samsaric dualistic thinking and the nondual wisdom of buddhahood, the true nature of mind.

Lama Zopa guides a meditation of shamatha (English: tranquility, or calm abiding) and meditative inquiry, an insight practice from the Tibetan that invokes, instills, and integrates prajna, precise knowing.

EPISODE CONTENTS

00:41 Teaching by Lama Yeshe

20:07 Seeds for Contemplation

26:18 Guided meditation by Lama Zopa

Tibetan singing bowl interludes by Shivnee Ratna

PRAJNA SPARKS follows the lunar calendar. Look for full episodes on new and full moon days, and contemplation interludes on the quarter moons.

Follow Lama Yeshe on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/karmayeshechodron/

Hear her story on Opening Dharma Access: Listening to BIPOC Teachers https://ihr.fm/3uwqxZW

And follow her in a guided practice of Tonglen Meditation & Sacred Creativity https://ihr.fm/3Lk9Kjy

Follow Lama Zopa on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/karmazopajigme/

RESOURCES

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)

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)

Yeshe and Zopa discuss your questions from the Life & Death episode in this Contemplation interlude...

Tibetan singing bowl interludes by Shivnee Ratna

PRAJNA SPARKS follows the lunar calendar. Look for new episodes on new and full moon days, and contemplation interludes on the quarter moons.

LAMA YESHE

Follow Lama Yeshe on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/karmayeshechodron/

Hear her story on Opening Dharma Access: Listening to BIPOC Teachers https://ihr.fm/3uwqxZW

And follow her in a guided practice of Tonglen Meditation & Sacred Creativity https://ihr.fm/3Lk9Kjy

RESOURCES

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)

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)

What is life? How can we live it to the fullest? In this episode we explore how to understand birth, life, death...and beyond, from a multidimensional, rather than dualistic perspective, and learn how ironically, the consistent recollection of our own mortality supports, nourishes, and enhances life.

Lama Zopa guides a meditation of shamatha (English: tranquility, or calm abiding) and meditative inquiry, an insight practice from the Tibetan that invokes, instills, and integrates prajna, precise knowing.

EPISODE CONTENTS

00:42 Teaching by Lama Yeshe

21:43 Contemplation 

24:31 Guided meditation by Lama Zopa

Tibetan singing bowl interludes by Shivnee Ratna

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

LAMA YESHE

Follow Lama Yeshe on Instagram https://www.instagram.com/karmayeshechodron/

Hear her story on Opening Dharma Access: Listening to BIPOC Teachers https://ihr.fm/3uwqxZW

And follow her in a guided practice of Tonglen Meditation & Sacred Creativity https://ihr.fm/3Lk9Kjy

RESOURCES

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)

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)

LAMA KARMA YESHE CHÖDRÖN is a scholar, teacher, and translator of Tibetan Buddhism at Rigpe Dorje Institute at Pullahari Monastery in Kathmandu, Nepal, co-host of Prajna Sparks and co-founder of Prajna Fire.

In addition to Prajna Sparks, Lama Yeshe co-hosts the Opening Dharma Access: Listening to BIPOC Teachers podcast with Rev. Liên Shutt and Kaira Jewel Lingo. The podcast interviews Dharma teachers from the black, indigenous, and people of color community to hear their stories and insights about how their experiences impact their Dharma practice and teaching.

Hear more about Lama Yeshe as ODA co-hosts Rev. Liên Shutt and Kaira Jewel Lingo interview her about her Dharma experiences as a practitioner and teacher of color here.

Listen to Lama Yeshe's Opening Dharma Access guided practice on Tonglen Meditation and Sacred Creativity here.

Lama Yeshe's everyday English rendering of the lo jong maxims, with brief commentary, is available for free download through April 1, 2022.

Check the Prajna Sparks series #59daysofhealing for a daily Dharma talk tracking one lo jong maxim per day to integrate the practice into daily life.

Join the Prajna Sparks global community and follow Lama Yeshe on Instagram @karmayeshechodron to learn more about integrating Buddhadharma and reveling in sacred creativity. https://www.instagram.com/karmayeshechodron/

Private spiritual counsel sessions with Lama Yeshe and Lama Zopa are available for online booking with immediate confirmation at Prajna Fire.

May all beings benefit!