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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

Further reading in the following book: How to Transform Your Life

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

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

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 pain.

Further reading in the following book: How to Understand the Mind

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 training the mind, while continuing our normal lives, we can gradually reduce distraction, restore balance, and discover the deeper, more stable happiness we have been searching for all along.

Further reading in the following book: The New Eight Steps to Happiness