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Welcome to Kadampa podcasts, where we explore the art of living a happier and more fulfilling life through the teachings and meditations of Kadampa Buddhism. Buddhism is a philosophy and way of life that has been practiced for centuries, and its principles can be applied to our modern world to help us navigate the challenges of daily life with greater ease and compassion.

In these podcasts, we'll delve into the core concepts of Buddhist meditation, such as mindfulness, compassion, and wisdom, and explore how they can be applied to our daily lives to cultivate a greater sense of peace, clarity and happiness.

Each episode is an inspiring extract taken from a teaching given by various Kadampa Buddhist meditation teachers worldwide. Whether you're new to Buddhism or have been practicing for years, these podcasts are for anyone looking to live a more peaceful and fulfilling life. So join us on this journey of self-discovery and transformation as we explore the timeless wisdom of Buddhism and its practical applications for modern living.

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Monday · 15 min
Becoming the Architect of Your Destiny
Gen-la Khyenrab explores the transformative power of our Buddha potential and explains how understanding the law of karma allows us to take full control of our lives. By recognizing and overcoming mental delusions like anger and attachment, we can intentionally cultivate positive mindsets and truly become the architects of our own destiny.
September 7 · 18 min
Why We Should Let Go of Anger
Gen Demo explores why letting go of anger is essential for a happy life, showing how anger can become a deeply ingrained habit and how it affects the people around us. Through relatable examples, she reveals that although we cannot control difficult situations, we can choose how we respond to them.
August 31 · 14 min
Your Mind Is Projecting Everything
Gen Thekchen introduces emptiness with disarming humor — looking at his audience and showing how the same people can appear as kind or horrible depending entirely on the mind’s projection. He reveals that spiritual practice is simply about reducing exaggeration and bringing our mind closer to reality. Further reading in the following book: The New Eight Steps to Happiness
August 25 · 16 min
What Are You Focusing on?
Gen Lamchen explains why thinking harder about a problem so often makes it worse. She shows how attention and mindfulness — the very mental habits that trap us in worry — can be turned around, then offers Shantideva’s simple framework for containing runaway thoughts in just five minutes a day. Further reading in the following books: How to Solve Our Human Problems Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life
August 17 · 17 min
What Authentic Self-Confidence Really Means
Adam Starr explores why our confidence crumbles when life hits hard, using the vivid metaphor of living in a bamboo hut on a beach. Drawing from the Buddhist master Shantideva, he reveals the difference between misplaced confidence and authentic spiritual confidence rooted in openness and humility. Further reading in the following book: Meaningful to Behold
July 20 · 20 min
Making Hardship Your Spiritual Teacher
Gen-la Jampa teaches how to transform unavoidable suffering into spiritual growth. He shares the story of the Indian master Atisha who regarded his rude cook as his most precious companion because he helped him develop patience, explains how acceptance purifies negative karma, and offers practical advice about starting with small annoyances to gradually build unshakable inner peace. Further reading in the following book: How to Solve Our Human Problems
July 13 · 14 min
How to Change Your Experiences
Kadam Bridget explores how meditation and mindfulness can help us change the direction of our life by changing what karma is ripening for us. She explains why our negative thoughts are not our true nature and offers practical advice for noticing unhelpful mental habits before they carry us into more suffering. Further reading in the following book: How to Solve Our Human Problems
July 6 · 13 min
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.
June 29 · 14 min
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
June 19 · 15 min
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
June 15 · 20 min
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 Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life
June 9 · 17 min
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
June 1 · 16 min
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 Living Meaningfully, Dying Joyfully
May 18 · 14 min
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
May 11 · 13 min
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.
May 4 · 22 min
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. Furth
April 27 · 15 min
What are we really afraid of?
In this episode, Gen Kelsang Lhachog, talks about our fears — of failure, loss, loneliness, or rejection. First she explains the difference between fear that can help and protect us, such as fear of deadly Australian snakes! And fears that paralyse our happiness and wellbeing. She then drills down to what is under those fears — the root fear that affects us all. Further reading in the following books: The New Eight Steps to Happiness How to Solve Our Human Problems
April 20 · 15 min
Small Actions That Change Everything
Kadam Bridget explains how we can actively shape our future through small, everyday acts of kindness. She shares a story about someone living in a community whose quiet contributions were only noticed after her death showing that creating positive karma doesn’t require world-changing heroics, just a good intention to benefit others. Everyone can transform their lives. Further reading in the following book: How to Transform Your Life
April 6 · 15 min
Taking the pain out of loss
The sadness we feel when we go through loss or separation is not coming from the loss itself, it’s coming from the irrational mind of attachment. Buddha gives scientific teachings on how our pain is created by this and other negative states of mind. Based on Understanding The Mind by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, Gen Gomlam explains that by understanding the distinction between love and attachment and realising how Buddhist wisdom overcomes this irrational and painful mind, we can heal our emotional pai
March 30 · 18 min
Committed to happiness
In this episode, Kadam Adam Starr explores why, even when we try to slow down, our minds remain busy and easily pulled into distraction. Reading from The New Eight Steps to Happiness by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso, he explains that although our deepest wish has always been to be happy and free from suffering, we often look for happiness only in external conditions, which leaves us feeling stressed, restless, and unfulfilled. In this excerpt, Kadam Adam explains how by committing to the inner work of tr

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