Your Mind Is Projecting Everything

Your Mind Is Projecting Everything

Author: Kadampa Buddhism August 31, 2026 Duration: 14:07
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… Source

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Author: Language: en-us Episodes: 32

Podcast Episodes
What are we really afraid of? [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 15:50
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 sna…
Small Actions That Change Everything [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 15:17
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 sho…
Empathy through exchanging self with others [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 16:09
Gen Chodor explains how it is easier to love people when we understand what they are going through. Using examples and analogies he explains how we can better understand the actions of others if we put ourselves in their…
Taking the pain out of loss [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 15:48
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 o…
Committed to happiness [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 18:47
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…
Patience is inner protection [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 15:09
Patience is a mind that welcomes wholeheartedly whatever arises having given up the idea that things should be other than what they are. In this extract from a teaching by Gen-la Jampa we learn to distinguish outer probl…
Wake up to life’s possibilities [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 16:49
When we discover the true source of all pain and problems: distorted perspectives within our own mind we see the possibility of true freedom. In this teaching Gen Devi discusses how ignorance, attachment, and aversion ar…
Karma, intention, and the power to be heard [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 19:23
Discover the Buddhist perspective on karma, not as a system of punishment, but as a universal law of cause and effect. This extract from a teaching by Gen Demo explores how our mental intentions are the root of all our a…
Designing your future self [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 16:51
In this podcast, Gen Chodor explains that all personal and spiritual growth begins in the imagination: we each hold a vision of who we want to become – less stressed, more confident, more peaceful – and without that visi…
Searching for but not finding what we want [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 17:27
In this inspiring talk, we’re reminded that our endless search for happiness – through stimulation, possessions, or relationships – will never give us the satisfaction we are seeking, Why? Because true happiness isn’t fo…