In this enlightening episode, Gen-la Khyenrab explains the Buddhist belief that all living beings are our kind mothers. He challenges us to question our ordinary perceptions of the people around us and to cultivate the view that others have been our mothers in countless previous lives. He explains that by holding this belief—because it is based on wisdom—we can solve all our daily problems. Based on the book How to Transform Your Life by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

In this episode, Kadam Bridget explores a powerful Buddhist teaching on the nature of happiness, suffering, and true freedom. Rather than blaming our problems on people or circumstances, we’re invited to look inward and understand how disturbed states of mind—such as anger, jealousy, and attachment—are the real source of our suffering. Through honest self-examination, we learn to recognize what our mind is producing moment by moment, and how negative emotions are not permanent truths but temporary “weather” passing through the mind. Based on the book How to Transform Your Life by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

In this episode Gen Tubchen shows how holding a mind of love can free us from so many unhappy minds such as loneliness, resentment, jealousy, grief and anger. Around Christmas time these minds can arise quite strongly so we need the mind of love to protect us from them. As a Christmas present this episode includes a short guided meditaion. Based on How to Transform Your Life by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

Move from being overwhelmed by life’s challenges to finding opportunities for growth. This teaching extract with Kadam Adam Starr, explores patient acceptance as the key to inner peace. Learn how meditation cultivates a calm, resilient mind, giving you the space to find a peaceful solution and freedom from worry, even amid difficulty and uncertainty.

Learn the art of adapting your communication to build harmony. This teaching with Gen Demo focuses on the importance of respecting others’ values, beliefs, and personal temperaments. Through engaging stories, it highlights how flexibility of mind and behaviour can make your communication truly effective and enable us to make others happy through our speech. Book reference How to Transform Your Life by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

This extract explores some of the reasons why our spiritual practice does not progress in the way we want it to. Gen Rabten discusses the reasons we resist change and the barriers in our mind that prevent us from truly absorbing transformative teachings. Book reference How to Transform Your Life by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

Our culture denies the reality of aging and death, causing us to fear them. This excerpt offers a refreshing perspective, encouraging us to look directly at these inevitable sufferings. Learn how to transform this fear into a powerful “wisdom fear” – a joyful, positive motivation to break free from the cycle of pain. Based on the book How to Transform Your Life by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

In this teaching extract, Kadam Morten explores how our relationships offer a powerful opportunity to find deeper meaning in life. Rather than pursuing the limited goals we often seek in our connections with others, we can learn to see these relationships not as obstacles to a spiritual life, but as essential opportunities to train the mind and cultivate the virtuous qualities that lead to genuine fulfillment and a truly meaningful life.

Discover one of the main sources of our pain: desirous attachment. This teaching explains how this sneaky mental habit masquerades as a path to happiness, but is in reality deceiving us. Attachment exaggerates the good qualities of someone and erases the bad thereby creating a person who seems to be the key to our happiness but is not! Gen Gomlam explains how to distinguish between attachment and pure love, enabling us build healthy relationships, free from pain. Based on the book How to Understand the Mind by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso

From a Buddhist perspective, the first step toward true resilience is accepting that hardship, stress, and change are a natural part of being human. Rather than fighting reality or clinging to the idea of “getting back to normal,” resilience invites us to meet life as it is — knowing that we will be changed by our experiences, and that’s okay. What we need is to allow challenges to change us for the better! Resilience doesn’t come from avoiding suffering, but from facing it with patience and compassion.

What is true affectionate love? In this extract, Gen-la Khyenrab introduces the beautiful mind of affectionate love, using the analogy of a mother’s delight in her child to illustrate this warm, open-hearted feeling. Discover the main reason we struggle to feel this for everyone and learn the profound yet simple training to change it. Based on the book, Joyful Path of Good Fortune by Geshe Kelsang Gyatso