A Lama Sumati Marut Podcast

While the foundational approach involves fighting anger with its opposite --patience-- we can also use anger to overcome anger. This podcast is taken from retreat teachings on Bintan Island, Indonesia, given in May, 2015. Write to us at podcast@mahasukha.org For more information about Lama Marut, please visit http://www.LamaMarut.org

The Mahayana approach to the problem of desire is to realize that what we really desire is the end of desire. This podcast is taken from retreat teachings on Bintan Island, Indonesia, given in May, 2015. Write to us at podcast@mahasukha.org For more information about Lama Marut, please visit http://www.LamaMarut.org

Desire, defined by one text as the inability to discriminate, clouds our innate wisdom. The foundational method for combatting it is through renunciation. This podcast is taken from retreat teachings on Bintan Island, Indonesia, given in May, 2015. Write to us at podcast@mahasukha.org For more information about Lama Marut, please visit http://www.LamaMarut.org

Lama Marut reviews the classical arguments for emptiness and interdependence and the importance of compassion complementing intellectual wisdom. This podcast is taken from retreat teachings on Bintan Island, Indonesia, given in May, 2015. Write to us at podcast@mahasukha.org For more information about Lama Marut, please visit http://www.LamaMarut.org

While the Vajrayana emphasis is mainly on non-conceptual wisdom, it presupposes the foundational path’s cultivation of better concepts about reality. This podcast is taken from retreat teachings on Bintan Island, Indonesia, given in May, 2015. Write to us at podcast@mahasukha.org For more information about Lama Marut, please visit http://www.LamaMarut.org

Cindy Lee reviews the Vajrayana understanding of non-conceptual natural wisdom and the gestures (mudras) and speech (mantras) that embody and express it. This podcast is taken from retreat teachings on Bintan Island, Indonesia, given in May, 2015. Write to us at podcast@mahasukha.org For more information about Lama Marut, please visit http://www.LamaMarut.org

Cindy Lee explains the meaning of “mandala” as a cosmic mapping of the suffering world and the creative workshop for transforming it. This podcast is taken from retreat teachings on Bintan Island, Indonesia, given in May, 2015. Write to us at podcast@mahasukha.org For more information about Lama Marut, please visit http://www.LamaMarut.org

All forms of suffering can be traced to one or another of the five principal mental afflictions, and Buddhism offers three different strategies for dealing with them: opposing them with their opposites, compassion, and the Vajrayana method of transformation. This podcast is taken from retreat teachings on Bintan Island, Indonesia, given in May, 2015. Write to us at podcast@mahasukha.org For more information about Lama Marut, please visit http://www.LamaMarut.org

Lama Marut explains some of the basic assumptions of the Vajrayana teaching on the Five Buddha Families, including the crucial idea that there is no inherent difference between the suffering world and the enlightened one. This podcast is taken from retreat teachings on Bintan Island, Indonesia, given in May, 2015. Write to us at podcast@mahasukha.org For more information about Lama Marut, please visit http://www.LamaMarut.org

Spiritually validated ways for thinking about the future in the here and now. This podcast was taken from a teaching given in Melbourne on Oct. 15, 2016. Write to us at podcast@mahasukha.org For more information about Lama Marut, please visit http://www.LamaMarut.org

There are different ways of thinking of the future, some useful and some not so much. This podcast was taken from a teaching given in Melbourne on Oct. 15, 2016. Write to us at podcast@mahasukha.org For more information about Lama Marut, please visit http://www.LamaMarut.org

Our usual understanding of the past and future are similar kinds of illusions, and both determine the way we see the present. This podcast is taken from a teaching given in Melbourne on Oct. 15, 2016. Write to us at podcast@mahasukha.org For more information about Lama Marut, please visit http://www.LamaMarut.org

History does not repeat itself, but because of memory we delude ourselves and fail to perceive the uniqueness of each situation and every person we encounter. This podcast is taken from a teaching given in Melbourne on Oct. 15, 2016. Write to us at podcast@mahasukha.org For more information about Lama Marut, please visit http://www.LamaMarut.org

Living fully in the present is the real goal of a spiritual practice. But is it possible? And even if it is possible, is it desirable? This podcast was taken from a teaching given in Singapore on Oct. 17, 2016. Write to us at podcast@mahasukha.org For more information about Lama Marut, please visit http://www.LamaMarut.org For additional audio teachings, please visit http://www.mahasukha.org/media/ To subscribe to more of Lama Maruts audio and video podcasts please visit podcast.mahasukha.org

The goals of a spiritual life can be attained if we generate confidence in the teachings, the teachers, and most importantly in ourselves. This podcast was taken from a teaching given in Los Angeles in July of 2013. Write to us at podcast@mahasukha.org For more information about Lama Marut, please visit http://www.LamaMarut.org For additional audio teachings, please visit http://www.mahasukha.org/media/ To subscribe to more of Lama Maruts audio and video podcasts please visit podcast.mahasukha.org

The goal of the spiritual traditions of India is a matter not of remembering but of forgetting. This podcast was taken from a teaching given in Melbourne on Aug. 13, 2016. Write to us at podcast@mahasukha.org For more information about Lama Marut, please visit http://www.LamaMarut.org For additional audio teachings, please visit http://www.mahasukha.org/media/ To subscribe to more of Lama Maruts audio and video podcasts please visit podcast.mahasukha.org

While remembering is often portrayed as a spiritual virtue, it also seems that memory creates the causes of suffering by giving us the illusion of a continuous self, creating negative habitual emotional responses, and providing conceptual categories that preclude direct experience of reality as it is. This podcast was taken from a teaching given in Melbourne on Aug. 13, 2016. Write to us at podcast@mahasukha.org For more information about Lama Marut, please visit http://www.LamaMarut.org For additional audio teachings, please visit http://www.mahasukha.org/media/ To subscribe to more of Lama Maruts audio and video podcasts please visit podcast.mahasukha.org

Mindfulness is a technique for staying concentrated on the present, but it can also be just another way to be self-absorbed and alienated from others. This podcast was taken from a teaching given in Melbourne on Aug. 13, 2016. Write to us at podcast@mahasukha.org For more information about Lama Marut, please visit http://www.LamaMarut.org For additional audio teachings, please visit http://www.mahasukha.org/media/ To subscribe to more of Lama Maruts audio and video podcasts please visit podcast.mahasukha.org

Memory (or “mindfulness”) is valued highly in the yogic, Hindu and Buddhist traditions. This podcast was taken from a teaching given in Melbourne on Aug. 13, 2016. Write to us at podcast@mahasukha.org For more information about Lama Marut, please visit http://www.LamaMarut.org For additional audio teachings, please visit http://www.mahasukha.org/media/ To subscribe to more of Lama Maruts audio and video podcasts please visit podcast.mahasukha.org

The same Sanskrit word has been translated in two different, even contradictory ways. Mindfulness means paying attention to the present, while memory is about remembering the past; in religion, the “great sin is forgetting.” This podcast is taken from a teaching given in Melbourne on Aug. 13, 2016. Write to us at podcast@mahasukha.org For more information about Lama Marut, please visit http://www.LamaMarut.org For additional audio teachings, please visit http://www.mahasukha.org/media/ To subscribe to more of Lama Maruts audio and video podcasts please visit podcast.mahasukha.org