A Lama Sumati Marut Podcast
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Podcast Description
True and lasting happiness is the goal of all authentic spiritual practices says Lama Marut, Buddhist monk, former University professor and popular American teacher of general spirituality, Tibetan Buddhism, and yoga philosophy.
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The Eight Worldly Thoughts | Renunciation means getting serious about what's really important in life. This podcast was taken from "Renunciation, Emptiness and the Path of Desire," given at Lucky Lotus, Brooklyn April 2010 Download the reading for this teaching here: http://aci-la.org/ALLAUDIO/Lucky_Intensive/Brooklyn%20handout.pdf Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org For more information about Lama Marut, please visit http://www.LamaMarut.org For additional audio teachings, please visit http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html To subscribe to more of Lama Marut’s audio and video podcasts please visit http://www.aci-la.org/mg-podcasts.html | 5/27/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Real Superman | A fire and brimstone look at the only thing that you can really have faith in. This podcast was taken from "Renunciation, Emptiness and the Path of Desire," given at Lucky Lotus, Brooklyn April 2010 Download the reading for this teaching here: http://aci-la.org/ALLAUDIO/Lucky_Intensive/Brooklyn%20handout.pdf Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org For more information about Lama Marut, please visit http://www.LamaMarut.org For additional audio teachings, please visit http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html To subscribe to more of Lama Marut’s audio and video podcasts please visit http://www.aci-la.org/mg-podcasts.html | 5/20/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Great Smackdown | Bring the radical back into religion and find happiness This podcast was taken from "Renunciation, Emptiness and the Path of Desire," given at Lucky Lotus, Brooklyn April 2010 Download the reading for this teaching here: http://aci-la.org/ALLAUDIO/Lucky_Intensive/Brooklyn%20handout.pdf Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org For more information about Lama Marut, please visit http://www.LamaMarut.org For additional audio teachings, please visit http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html To subscribe to more of Lama Marut’s audio and video podcasts please visit http://www.aci-la.org/mg-podcasts.html | 5/13/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Beautiful Day In My Neighborhood | Using the problem as a solution to the problem This podcast was taken from "Renunciation, Emptiness and the Path of Desire," given at Lucky Lotus, Brooklyn April 2010 Download the reading for this teaching here: http://aci-la.org/ALLAUDIO/Lucky_Intensive/Brooklyn%20handout.pdf Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org For more information about Lama Marut, please visit http://www.LamaMarut.org For additional audio teachings, please visit http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html To subscribe to more of Lama Marut’s audio and video podcasts please visit http://www.aci-la.org/mg-podcasts.html | 5/6/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Fierce but Sane | If the spiritual life is stressing you out you're not doing it right. If you're not working hard you're not doing it right either. This podcast was taken from "Renunciation, Emptiness and the Path of Desire," given at Lucky Lotus, Brooklyn April 2010 Download the reading for this teaching here: http://aci-la.org/ALLAUDIO/Lucky_Intensive/Brooklyn%20handout.pdf Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org For more information about Lama Marut, please visit http://www.LamaMarut.org For additional audio teachings, please visit http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html To subscribe to more of Lama Marut’s audio and video podcasts please visit http://www.aci-la.org/mg-podcasts.html | 4/29/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Death Awareness Meditation | A death awareness meditation led by Cindy Lee This podcast was taken from "Renunciation, Emptiness and the Path of Desire," given at Lucky Lotus, Brooklyn April 2010 Download the reading for this teaching here: http://aci-la.org/ALLAUDIO/Lucky_Intensive/Brooklyn%20handout.pdf Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org For more information about Lama Marut, please visit http://www.LamaMarut.org For additional audio teachings, please visit http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html To subscribe to more of Lama Marut’s audio and video podcasts please visit http://www.aci-la.org/mg-podcasts.html | 4/22/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Choice of Three Worldviews | There are only two alternatives to karma. See if you like them better. This podcast was taken from "Renunciation, Emptiness and the Path of Desire," given at Lucky Lotus, Brooklyn April 2010 Download the reading for this teaching here: http://aci-la.org/ALLAUDIO/Lucky_Intensive/Brooklyn%20handout.pdf Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org For more information about Lama Marut, please visit http://www.LamaMarut.org For additional audio teachings, please visit http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html To subscribe to more of Lama Marut’s audio and video podcasts please visit http://www.aci-la.org/mg-podcasts.html | 4/15/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Marvels of Samsara | The marvels of samsara are means to a higher end, the conditions of possibility for doing something really important with your life. This podcast was taken from "Renunciation, Emptiness and the Path of Desire," given at Lucky Lotus, Brooklyn April 2010 Download the reading for this teaching here: http://aci-la.org/ALLAUDIO/Lucky_Intensive/Brooklyn%20handout.pdf Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org For more information about Lama Marut, please visit http://www.LamaMarut.org For additional audio teachings, please visit http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html To subscribe to more of Lama Marut’s audio and video podcasts please visit http://www.aci-la.org/mg-podcasts.html | 4/8/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Becoming a Victor | An overview of the three principle paths and the attitude you need to become happy. This podcast was taken from "Renunciation, Emptiness and the Path of Desire," given at Lucky Lotus, Brooklyn April 2010 Download the reading for this teaching here: http://aci-la.org/ALLAUDIO/Lucky_Intensive/Brooklyn%20handout.pdf Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org For more information about Lama Marut, please visit http://www.LamaMarut.org For additional audio teachings, please visit http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html To subscribe to more of Lama Marut’s audio and video podcasts please visit http://www.aci-la.org/mg-podcasts.html | 4/1/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How To Be a Real Spiritual Rebel | Just be happy. They hate it when you do that. This podcast was taken from "Renunciation, Emptiness and the Path of Desire," given at Lucky Lotus, Brooklyn April 2010 Download the reading for this teaching here: http://aci-la.org/ALLAUDIO/Lucky_Intensive/Brooklyn%20handout.pdf Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org For more information about Lama Marut, please visit http://www.LamaMarut.org For additional audio teachings, please visit http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html To subscribe to more of Lama Marut’s audio and video podcasts please visit http://www.aci-la.org/mg-podcasts.html | 3/25/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Yes, But Will It Blend? | The fact that putting an iPad in a blender is so radical shows how attached we are to the idea that having an iPad could make us happy. This podcast was taken from "Renunciation, Emptiness and the Path of Desire," given at Lucky Lotus, Brooklyn April 2010 Download the reading for this teaching here: http://aci-la.org/ALLAUDIO/Lucky_Intensive/Brooklyn%20handout.pdf Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org For more information about Lama Marut, please visit http://www.LamaMarut.org For additional audio teachings, please visit http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html To subscribe to more of Lama Marut’s audio and video podcasts please visit http://www.aci-la.org/mg-podcasts.html | 3/18/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Solid Foundation | How understanding the three problems of the Starbuck's cup is the foundation for learning to be happy. This podcast was taken from "Renunciation, Emptiness and the Path of Desire," given at Lucky Lotus, Brooklyn April 2010 Download the reading for this teaching here: http://aci-la.org/ALLAUDIO/Lucky_Intensive/Brooklyn%20handout.pdf Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org For more information about Lama Marut, please visit http://www.LamaMarut.org For additional audio teachings, please visit http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html To subscribe to more of Lama Marut’s audio and video podcasts please visit http://www.aci-la.org/mg-podcasts.html | 3/11/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Diamond Cutter Mantra | Lama Marut transmits, explains, and sings (!) the famous mantra at the end of the Diamond Cutter Sutra. This podcast comes from teachings on the Diamond Cutter Sutra given in Borobudur, Indonesia, in January of 2011. Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org For more information about Lama Marut, please visit http://www.LamaMarut.org For additional audio teachings, please visit http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html To subscribe to more of Lama Marut’s audio and video podcasts please visit http://www.aci-la.org/mg-podcasts.html | 3/4/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Getting Realistic About Paradise | The world can be transformed into a paradise – but not in the way we think. This podcast comes from teachings on the Diamond Cutter Sutra given in Borobudur, Indonesia, in January of 2011. Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org For more information about Lama Marut, please visit http://www.LamaMarut.org For additional audio teachings, please visit http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html To subscribe to more of Lama Marut’s audio and video podcasts please visit http://www.aci-la.org/mg-podcasts.html | 2/26/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Freedom Through Discipline | While we all want to be free, there can be no freedom without first disciplining ourselves. This podcast comes from teachings on the Diamond Cutter Sutra given in Borobudur, Indonesia, in January of 2011. Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org For more information about Lama Marut, please visit http://www.LamaMarut.org For additional audio teachings, please visit http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html To subscribe to more of Lama Marut’s audio and video podcasts please visit http://www.aci-la.org/mg-podcasts.html | 2/19/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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What Makes Sacred Sites Sacred | Places are not sacred in and of themselves. It's people that make sites sacred. This podcast comes from teachings on the Diamond Cutter Sutra given in Borobudur, Indonesia, in January of 2011. Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org For more information about Lama Marut, please visit http://www.LamaMarut.org For additional audio teachings, please visit http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html To subscribe to more of Lama Marut’s audio and video podcasts please visit http://www.aci-la.org/mg-podcasts.html | 2/12/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Bodhisattva Sheds a Tear | The difference between a bodhisattva and an arhat is the deep compassion of the former. Also includes a section on why emptiness should not invoke fear but rather hope. This podcast comes from teachings on the Diamond Cutter Sutra given in Borobudur, Indonesia, in January of 2011. Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org For more information about Lama Marut, please visit http://www.LamaMarut.org For additional audio teachings, please visit http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html To subscribe to more of Lama Marut’s audio and video podcasts please visit http://www.aci-la.org/mg-podcasts.html | 2/5/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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So Many Buddhas | We are miracle hungry, but we don't pay attention to the ones around us. This podcast comes from teachings on the Diamond Cutter Sutra given in Borobudur, Indonesia, in January of 2011. Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org For more information about Lama Marut, please visit http://www.LamaMarut.org For additional audio teachings, please visit http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html To subscribe to more of Lama Marut’s audio and video podcasts please visit http://www.aci-la.org/mg-podcasts.html | 1/29/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Why There Is No Self | A logical rehearsal of four different ways in which we don't have a self. This podcast comes from teachings on the Diamond Cutter Sutra given in Borobudur, Indonesia, in January of 2011. Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org For more information about Lama Marut, please visit http://www.LamaMarut.org For additional audio teachings, please visit http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html To subscribe to more of Lama Marut’s audio and video podcasts please visit http://www.aci-la.org/mg-podcasts.html | 1/22/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Why We Need a Teacher | The guru acts as a mirror. The teacher can't really teach you anything, but without a teacher you'll never learn anything. This podcast comes from teachings on the Diamond Cutter Sutra given in Borobudur, Indonesia, in January of 2011. Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org For more information about Lama Marut, please visit http://www.LamaMarut.org For additional audio teachings, please visit http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html To subscribe to more of Lama Marut’s audio and video podcasts please visit http://www.aci-la.org/mg-podcasts.html | 1/15/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Dharma is Like a Raft | The Buddha taught that even his own teachings, the Dharma, is only provisional. When it delivers you to where you're supposed to go, you must let go of the attachment to it. This podcast comes from teachings on the Diamond Cutter Sutra given in Borobudur, Indonesia, in January of 2011. Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org For more information about Lama Marut, please visit http://www.LamaMarut.org For additional audio teachings, please visit http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html To subscribe to more of Lama Marut’s audio and video podcasts please visit http://www.aci-la.org/mg-podcasts.html | 1/8/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Taking Real Refuge | The difference between the real and the symbolic Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha -- and which can help you and which can't. This podcast comes from teachings on the Diamond Cutter Sutra given in Borobudur, Indonesia, in January of 2011. Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org For more information about Lama Marut, please visit http://www.LamaMarut.org For additional audio teachings, please visit http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html To subscribe to more of Lama Marut’s audio and video podcasts please visit http://www.aci-la.org/mg-podcasts.html | 1/1/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Guru Inspires You | The Guru inspires -- "Puts the spirit into you" -- and wakes you up to your own potential. This podcast comes from teachings on the Diamond Cutter Sutra given in Borobudur, Indonesia, in January of 2011. Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org For more information about Lama Marut, please visit http://www.LamaMarut.org For additional audio teachings, please visit http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html To subscribe to more of Lama Marut’s audio and video podcasts please visit http://www.aci-la.org/mg-podcasts.html | 12/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Paths of Habituation and No More Learning | The last two of the five paths of a spiritual practice. This podcast comes from teachings on the Diamond Cutter Sutra given in Borobudur, Indonesia, in January of 2011. Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org For more information about Lama Marut, please visit http://www.LamaMarut.org For additional audio teachings, please visit http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html To subscribe to more of Lama Marut’s audio and video podcasts please visit http://www.aci-la.org/mg-podcasts.html | 12/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Path of Seeing | The transformative mystical experience of seeing ultimate reality directly This podcast comes from teachings on the Diamond Cutter Sutra given in Borobudur, Indonesia, in January of 2011. Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org For more information about Lama Marut, please visit http://www.LamaMarut.org For additional audio teachings, please visit http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html To subscribe to more of Lama Marut’s audio and video podcasts please visit http://www.aci-la.org/mg-podcasts.html | 12/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Paths of Accumulation and Preparation | The first two paths or stages of the spiritual life and how you’ll know when you’ve reached them. This podcast comes from teachings on the Diamond Cutter Sutra given in Borobudur, Indonesia, in January of 2011. Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org For more information about Lama Marut, please visit http://www.LamaMarut.org For additional audio teachings, please visit http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html To subscribe to more of Lama Marut’s audio and video podcasts please visit http://www.aci-la.org/mg-podcasts.html | 12/4/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Stream Enterer | Why a stream enterer enters no stream and would never say, “I am a stream enterer.” This podcast comes from teachings on the Diamond Cutter Sutra given in Borobudur, Indonesia, in January of 2011. Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org For more information about Lama Marut, please visit http://www.LamaMarut.org For additional audio teachings, please visit http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html To subscribe to more of Lama Marut’s audio and video podcasts please visit http://www.aci-la.org/mg-podcasts.html | 11/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Chicken and Egg Question | Why you can only see outside of you what's already in you – and vice versa. This podcast comes from teachings on the Diamond Cutter Sutra given in Borobudur, Indonesia, in January of 2011. Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org For more information about Lama Marut, please visit http://www.LamaMarut.org For additional audio teachings, please visit http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html To subscribe to more of Lama Marut’s audio and video podcasts please visit http://www.aci-la.org/mg-podcasts.html | 11/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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All My Children | Why all living beings are your children – and therefore your responsibility. This podcast comes from teachings on the Diamond Cutter Sutra given in Borobudur, Indonesia, in January of 2011. Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org For more information about Lama Marut, please visit http://www.LamaMarut.org For additional audio teachings, please visit http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html To subscribe to more of Lama Marut’s audio and video podcasts please visit http://www.aci-la.org/mg-podcasts.html | 11/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Real Self Help | Lama Marut answers some questions from the retreat about how to be happy. This podcast was taken from Developing the Good Heart Retreat, Satyananda Ashram, Rocklyn, September 2010. Download the reading for this teaching here: http://aci-la.org/ALLAUDIO/GoodHeart_Ashram/DE_14.pdf Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org For more information about Lama Marut, please visit http://www.LamaMarut.org For additional audio teachings, please visit http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html To subscribe to more of Lama Marut’s audio and video podcasts please visit http://www.aci-la.org/mg-podcasts.html | 11/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Where Do I Start? | Lama Marut reviews a list of specific actions we can begin to incorporate into our day if we want to live a happier life. This podcast was taken from Developing the Good Heart Retreat, Satyananda Ashram, Rocklyn, September 2010. Download the reading for this teaching here: http://aci-la.org/ALLAUDIO/GoodHeart_Ashram/DE_14.pdf Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org For more information about Lama Marut, please visit http://www.LamaMarut.org For additional audio teachings, please visit http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html To subscribe to more of Lama Marut’s audio and video podcasts please visit http://www.aci-la.org/mg-podcasts.html | 10/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Wrestling With the Real Enemy | Lama Marut identifies our real enemy and then explains how it exists interdependently with us. This podcast was taken from Developing the Good Heart Retreat, Satyananda Ashram, Rocklyn, September 2010. Download the reading for this teaching here: http://aci-la.org/ALLAUDIO/GoodHeart_Ashram/DE_14.pdf Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org For more information about Lama Marut, please visit http://www.LamaMarut.org For additional audio teachings, please visit http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html To subscribe to more of Lama Marut’s audio and video podcasts please visit http://www.aci-la.org/mg-podcasts.html | 10/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Why Daddy, Why? | Lama Marut first looks for the real causes of why things happen to us. He then describes a radical way to transform the things that make us unhappy into tools we can use to end our suffering. This podcast was taken from Developing the Good Heart Retreat, Satyananda Ashram, Rocklyn, September 2010. Download the reading for this teaching here: http://aci-la.org/ALLAUDIO/GoodHeart_Ashram/DE_14.pdf Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org For more information about Lama Marut, please visit http://www.LamaMarut.org For additional audio teachings, please visit http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html To subscribe to more of Lama Marut’s audio and video podcasts please visit http://www.aci-la.org/mg-podcasts.html | 10/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Finding Some Magic | Lama Marut suggests there are already special people in our lives working to help us get enlightened. This podcast was taken from Developing the Good Heart Retreat, Satyananda Ashram, Rocklyn, September 2010. Download the reading for this teaching here: http://aci-la.org/ALLAUDIO/GoodHeart_Ashram/DE_14.pdf Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org For more information about Lama Marut, please visit http://www.LamaMarut.org For additional audio teachings, please visit http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html To subscribe to more of Lama Marut’s audio and video podcasts please visit http://www.aci-la.org/mg-podcasts.html | 10/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Finding Joy | Lama Marut explains more of the advises for developing a good heart. This podcast was taken from Developing the Good Heart Retreat, Satyananda Ashram, Rocklyn, September 2010. Download the reading for this teaching here: http://aci-la.org/ALLAUDIO/GoodHeart_Ashram/DE_14.pdf Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org For more information about Lama Marut, please visit http://www.LamaMarut.org For additional audio teachings, please visit http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html To subscribe to more of Lama Marut’s audio and video podcasts please visit http://www.aci-la.org/mg-podcasts.html | 10/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Never Let a Good Disaster Go to Waste | It often takes a disaster to get us to realize that without a teacher we can't make much progress in living a happier life. This podcast was taken from Developing the Good Heart Retreat, Satyananda Ashram, Rocklyn, September 2010. Download the reading for this teaching here: http://aci-la.org/ALLAUDIO/GoodHeart_Ashram/DE_14.pdf Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org For more information about Lama Marut, please visit http://www.LamaMarut.org For additional audio teachings, please visit http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html To subscribe to more of Lama Marut’s audio and video podcasts please visit http://www.aci-la.org/mg-podcasts.html | 9/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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We Aren't Hardwired to Be Unhappy | Lama Marut reviews a three pronged attack to eradicate the mental afflictions that disturb our peace of mind. This podcast was taken from Developing the Good Heart Retreat, Satyananda Ashram, Rocklyn, September 2010. Download the reading for this teaching here: http://aci-la.org/ALLAUDIO/GoodHeart_Ashram/DE_14.pdf Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org For more information about Lama Marut, please visit http://www.LamaMarut.org For additional audio teachings, please visit http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html To subscribe to more of Lama Marut’s audio and video podcasts please visit http://www.aci-la.org/mg-podcasts.html | 9/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Guru Inspires You | The Guru inspires -- “puts the spirit into you” – and wakes you up to your own potential. This podcast comes from teachings on the Diamond Cutter Sutra given in Borobudur, Indonesia, in January of 2011. Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org For more information about Lama Marut, please visit http://www.LamaMarut.org For additional audio teachings, please visit http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html To subscribe to more of Lama Marut’s audio and video podcasts please visit http://www.aci-la.org/mg-podcasts.html | 9/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Living a Happy Life | Lama Marut reviews some basic guidelines for living a happy life. This podcast was taken from Developing the Good Heart Retreat, Satyananda Ashram, Rocklyn, September 2010. Download the reading for this teaching here: http://aci-la.org/ALLAUDIO/GoodHeart_Ashram/DE_14.pdf Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org For more information about Lama Marut, please visit http://www.LamaMarut.org For additional audio teachings, please visit http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html To subscribe to more of Lama Marut’s audio and video podcasts please visit http://www.aci-la.org/mg-podcasts.html | 8/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A High, Secret Practice... The Couch Potato Contemplation | Lama Marut describes three levels of understanding how things really exist. This podcast was taken from Wheel of Life, Santa Cruz, CA, August 29, 2007. Download the reading for this teaching here: http://www.aci-la.org/ALLAUDIO/MISC/WheelOfLife/WhyNotHappy.pdf Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org For more information about Lama Marut, please visit http://www.LamaMarut.org For additional audio teachings, please visit http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html To subscribe to more of Lama Marut’s audio and video podcasts please visit http://www.aci-la.org/mg-podcasts.html | 8/21/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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There’s No There There | You do not exist as you think, so "you" can be somebody else. This podcast was taken from Wheel of Life, Santa Cruz, CA, August 29, 2007. Download the reading for this teaching here: http://www.aci-la.org/ALLAUDIO/MISC/WheelOfLife/WhyNotHappy.pdf Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org For more information about Lama Marut, please visit http://www.LamaMarut.org For additional audio teachings, please visit http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html To subscribe to more of Lama Marut’s audio and video podcasts please visit http://www.aci-la.org/mg-podcasts.html | 8/14/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Practice Happiness | The bottom line of a spiritual practice is learning how to be happy all the time. This podcast was taken from Developing the Good Heart Retreat, Satyananda Ashram, Rocklyn, September 2010. Download the reading for this teaching here: http://aci-la.org/ALLAUDIO/GoodHeart_Ashram/DE_14.pdf Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org For more information about Lama Marut, please visit http://www.LamaMarut.org For additional audio teachings, please visit http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html To subscribe to more of Lama Marut’s audio and video podcasts please visit http://www.aci-la.org/mg-podcasts.html | 8/7/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How Old Are You? | Lama Marut explains how our answer to that question can't be what we think it is. This podcast was taken from Explorations In Emptiness, given in Reno NV, 2009. Download the reading for this teaching here: http://aci-la.org/ALLAUDIO/Emptiness_Reno2009/Explorations_Chapters_9-10_RENO.pdf Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org For more information about Lama Marut, please visit http://www.LamaMarut.org For additional audio teachings, please visit http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html To subscribe to more of Lama Marut’s audio and video podcasts please visit http://www.aci-la.org/mg-podcasts.html | 7/31/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Core and Morph | We've gotten everything they promised us, and more, and we are still not happy. Lama Marut suggests that instead of looking for something new, we look for something old. This podcast was taken from Explorations In Emptiness, given in Reno NV, 2009. Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org For more information about Lama Marut, please visit http://www.LamaMarut.org For additional audio teachings, please visit http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html To subscribe to more of Lama Marut’s audio and video podcasts please visit http://www.aci-la.org/mg-podcasts.html | 7/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Emptiness of Emptiness | The essence of the Diamond Cutter Sutra lies in the formula: x is, x is not, therefore x is. Lama Marut explains. This podcast comes from teachings on the Diamond Cutter Sutra given in Borobudur, Indonesia, in January of 2011. Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org For more information about Lama Marut, please visit http://www.LamaMarut.org For additional audio teachings, please visit http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html To subscribe to more of Lama Marut’s audio and video podcasts please visit http://www.aci-la.org/mg-podcasts.html | 7/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Contentment is Not Complacency | The goal is contentment, but that doesn't mean you no longer care about anything or anybody. The bodhisattva ideal is engaged in the world while not being taken in by it. This podcast comes from teachings on the Diamond Cutter Sutra given in Borobudur, Indonesia, in January of 2011. Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org For more information about Lama Marut, please visit http://www.LamaMarut.org For additional audio teachings, please visit http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html To subscribe to more of Lama Marut’s audio and video podcasts please visit http://www.aci-la.org/mg-podcasts.html | 7/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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These Are the Good Old Days | There's been no better time than now in all of history to get enlightened. This podcast comes from teachings on the Diamond Cutter Sutra given in Borobudur, Indonesia, in January of 2011. Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org For more information about Lama Marut, please visit http://www.LamaMarut.org For additional audio teachings, please visit http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html To subscribe to more of Lama Marut’s audio and video podcasts please visit http://www.aci-la.org/mg-podcasts.html | 7/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Liberphobia | The fear of freedom – together with selfishness and and our belief in impossible things – keeps us suffering. This podcast comes from teachings on the Diamond Cutter Sutra given in Borobudur, Indonesia, in January of 2011. Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org For more information about Lama Marut, please visit http://www.LamaMarut.org For additional audio teachings, please visit http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html To subscribe to more of Lama Marut’s audio and video podcasts please visit http://www.aci-la.org/mg-podcasts.html | 6/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Karma Vs. Merit | Selfless action, produces immeasurable merit, not just good karma. This podcast comes from teachings on the Diamond Cutter Sutra given in Borobudur, Indonesia, in January of 2011. Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org For more information about Lama Marut, please visit http://www.LamaMarut.org For additional audio teachings, please visit http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html To subscribe to more of Lama Marut’s audio and video podcasts please visit http://www.aci-la.org/mg-podcasts.html | 6/19/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Nirvana, Here and Now | The very desire for a nirvana that’s different from the way things are, here and now, is blocking us from attaining nirvana. This podcast comes from teachings on the Diamond Cutter Sutra given in Borobudur, Indonesia, in January of 2011. Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org For more information about Lama Marut, please visit http://www.LamaMarut.org For additional audio teachings, please visit http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html To subscribe to more of Lama Marut’s audio and video podcasts please visit http://www.aci-la.org/mg-podcasts.html | 6/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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No Emptiness Without Form | Emptiness is not free-standing. Everything is empty meaning everything exists only interdependently. . . . including emptiness itself. This podcast comes from teachings on the Diamond Cutter Sutra given in Borobudur, Indonesia, in January of 2011. Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org For more information about Lama Marut, please visit http://www.LamaMarut.org For additional audio teachings, please visit http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html To subscribe to more of Lama Marut’s audio and video podcasts please visit http://www.aci-la.org/mg-podcasts.html | 6/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Signs of a Buddha | The truly distinctive signs of a Buddha is that they have no signs. This podcast comes from teachings on the Diamond Cutter Sutra given in Borobudur, Indonesia, in January of 2011. Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org For more information about Lama Marut, please visit http://www.LamaMarut.org For additional audio teachings, please visit http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html To subscribe to more of Lama Marut’s audio and video podcasts please visit http://www.aci-la.org/mg-podcasts.html | 5/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Perfecting Giving | The perfection of wisdom consists in understanding the interdependence of the giver, the gift, and the recipient. This podcast comes from teachings on the Diamond Cutter Sutra given in Borobudur, Indonesia, in January of 2011. Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org For more information about Lama Marut, please visit http://www.LamaMarut.org For additional audio teachings, please visit http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html To subscribe to more of Lama Marut’s audio and video podcasts please visit http://www.aci-la.org/mg-podcasts.html | 5/22/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Popping the Question | How should we live our lives? The Buddha taught us how in both in his words and actions. This podcast comes from teachings on the Diamond Cutter Sutra given in Borobudur, Indonesia, in January of 2011. Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org For more information about Lama Marut, please visit http://www.LamaMarut.org For additional audio teachings, please visit http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html To subscribe to more of Lama Marut’s audio and video podcasts please visit http://www.aci-la.org/mg-podcasts.html | 5/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Reality Training | Being mindful of and content with what’s happening here and now is the essence of meditation and the secret of Buddhahood. This podcast comes from teachings on the Diamond Cutter Sutra given in Borobudur, Indonesia, in January of 2011. Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org For more information about Lama Marut, please visit http://www.LamaMarut.org For additional audio teachings, please visit http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html To subscribe to more of Lama Marut’s audio and video podcasts please visit http://www.aci-la.org/mg-podcasts.html | 5/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Middle Way | The truth lies between two extremes: the belief that things exist objectively and independently, and the nihilistic idea that nothing exists at all. This podcast comes from teachings on the Diamond Cutter Sutra given in Borobudur, Indonesia, in January of 2011. Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org For more information about Lama Marut, please visit http://www.LamaMarut.org For additional audio teachings, please visit http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html To subscribe to more of Lama Marut’s audio and video podcasts please visit http://www.aci-la.org/mg-podcasts.html | 5/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Trying to Find Waldo | A review of four different misunderstandings of the “self.” This podcast comes from teachings on the Diamond Cutter Sutra given in Borobudur, Indonesia, in January of 2011. Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org For more information about Lama Marut, please visit http://www.LamaMarut.org For additional audio teachings, please visit http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html To subscribe to more of Lama Marut’s audio and video podcasts please visit http://www.aci-la.org/mg-podcasts.html | 4/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Once I Heard This | Lama Marut begins an analysis of one of the “perfection of wisdom” sutras by reviewing the six “perfections.” This podcast comes from teachings on the Diamond Cutter Sutra given in Borobudur, Indonesia, in January of 2011. Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org For more information about Lama Marut, please visit http://www.LamaMarut.org For additional audio teachings, please visit http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html To subscribe to more of Lama Marut’s audio and video podcasts please visit http://www.aci-la.org/mg-podcasts.html | 4/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Karma | In an amazing summary of Karma, Lama Marut takes us through three worldviews, four laws of Karma, four forces of purification, and an answer to the question of whether Karma is stored somewhere. This podcast was exerpted from Cindy Lee's online teachings on the "Happiness of Freedom," archived at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/happiness-of-freedom and http://siddha-songs.com Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org For more information about Lama Marut, please visit http://www.LamaMarut.org For additional audio teachings, please visit http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html To subscribe to more of Lama Marut’s audio and video podcasts please visit http://www.aci-la.org/mg-podcasts.html | 4/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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You’re Living a Wizard’s Life… So Don’t Waste It | Lama Marut exhorts us to up the ante as we reflect on our Triple-X leisure and fortune. This podcast was exerpted from Cindy Lee's online teachings on the "Happiness of Freedom," archived at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/happiness-of-freedom and http://siddha-songs.com Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org For more information about Lama Marut, please visit http://www.LamaMarut.org For additional audio teachings, please visit http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html To subscribe to more of Lama Marut’s audio and video podcasts please visit http://www.aci-la.org/mg-podcasts.html | 4/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Getting Serious about a Spiritual Life | Only when we wise up about the impermanence and shallowness of this life do we really see a need to search for a spiritual alternative. Lama Marut says that until that happens we’re dabblers. This podcast was exerpted from Cindy Lee's online teachings on the "Happiness of Freedom," archived at http://www.ustream.tv/channel/happiness-of-freedom and http://siddha-songs.com Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org For more information about Lama Marut, please visit http://www.LamaMarut.org For additional audio teachings, please visit http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html To subscribe to more of Lama Marut’s audio and video podcasts please visit http://www.aci-la.org/mg-podcasts.html | 3/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Three Cosmic Laws | You’ll be a better person for all of us if you find out how to live a happier life, which comes from living by the three cosmic laws of the universe. This podcast was taken froma teaching on the Wheel of Life held at Santa Cruz, CA, in August 2007. Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org For more information about Lama Marut, please visit http://www.LamaMarut.org For additional audio teachings, please visit http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html To subscribe to more of Lama Marut’s audio and video podcasts please visit http://www.aci-la.org/mg-podcasts.html | 3/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Why We’re Not Happy | We're not happy because we're ignorant, but ignorance is not not-knowing… it is false knowledge. Lama Marut looks to the first teaching that The Buddha did for the answer to how to be happy. This podcast was taken froma teaching on the Wheel of Life held at Santa Cruz, CA, in August 2007. Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org For more information about Lama Marut, please visit http://www.LamaMarut.org For additional audio teachings, please visit http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html To subscribe to more of Lama Marut’s audio and video podcasts please visit http://www.aci-la.org/mg-podcasts.html | 3/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Opening the Portals of the Death Star | If we don't see how things really are we'll continue to suffer. So Lama Marut cracks open the nature of interdependence by looking at the parts of time, space, objects, and you. This podcast was taken from the 2009 Thanksgiving Retreat, “Blissful Path to Bliss,” held at Lake Tahoe. For the text associated with this teaching, please download from http://aci-la.org/ALLAUDIO/Blissful_Path/DeLam%20Reading,%20no%20meds.pdf Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org For more information about Lama Marut, please visit http://www.LamaMarut.org For additional audio teachings, please visit http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html To subscribe to Lama Marut's "Inciting Happiness" podcasts of unabridged teachings please go to http://www.aci-la.org/inciting_happiness.html To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please visit http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html | 3/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Laziness of Busy-ness | Why is it that we work so hard but almost all of us are not doing the one thing we know we should be doing in this life? This podcast was taken from the 2009 Thanksgiving Retreat, “Blissful Path to Bliss,” held at Lake Tahoe. For the text associated with this teaching, please download from http://aci-la.org/ALLAUDIO/Blissful_Path/DeLam%20Reading,%20no%20meds.pdf Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org For more information about Lama Marut, please visit http://www.LamaMarut.org For additional audio teachings, please visit http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html To subscribe to Lama Marut's "Inciting Happiness" podcasts of unabridged teachings please go to http://www.aci-la.org/inciting_happiness.html To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please visit http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html | 2/27/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Keeping a Spiritual Journal | Tracking daily ethics, along with Mission Impossible games of anonymous giving, and all that you’re grateful for is the foundation for keeping a spiritual journal. This podcast was taken from the 2009 Thanksgiving Retreat, “Blissful Path to Bliss,” held at Lake Tahoe. For the text associated with this teaching, please download from http://aci-la.org/ALLAUDIO/Blissful_Path/DeLam%20Reading,%20no%20meds.pdf Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org For more information about Lama Marut, please visit http://www.LamaMarut.org For additional audio teachings, please visit http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html To subscribe to Lama Marut's "Inciting Happiness" podcasts of unabridged teachings please go to http://www.aci-la.org/inciting_happiness.html To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please visit http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html | 2/20/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Path of Desire Leads to Highest Happiness | Lama Marut teaches about the paradox of desire and how desire can be used to motivate you spiritually. This podcast was taken from the 2009 Thanksgiving Retreat, “Blissful Path to Bliss,” held at Lake Tahoe. For the text associated with this teaching, please download from http://aci-la.org/ALLAUDIO/Blissful_Path/DeLam%20Reading,%20no%20meds.pdf Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org For more information about Lama Marut, please visit http://www.LamaMarut.org For additional audio teachings, please visit http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html To subscribe to Lama Marut's "Inciting Happiness" podcasts of unabridged teachings please go to http://www.aci-la.org/inciting_happiness.html To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please visit http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html | 2/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Real Happiness | Lama Marut says that if you think that happiness is unbroken euphoria then you may never be happy. In this very important podcast, he tells us what real happiness is. This podcast was taken from the 2009 Thanksgiving Retreat, “Blissful Path to Bliss,” held at Lake Tahoe. For the text associated with this teaching, please download from http://aci-la.org/ALLAUDIO/Blissful_Path/DeLam%20Reading,%20no%20meds.pdf Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org For more information about Lama Marut, please visit http://www.LamaMarut.org For additional audio teachings, please visit http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html To subscribe to Lama Marut's "Inciting Happiness" podcasts of unabridged teachings please go to http://www.aci-la.org/inciting_happiness.html To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please visit http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html | 2/6/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Going for Refuge | The real protection that comes from taking refuge isn't found in statues or pictures of deities but is in the realizations that change our mindset. This podcast was taken from the 2009 Thanksgiving Retreat, “Blissful Path to Bliss,” held at Lake Tahoe. For the text associated with this teaching, please download from http://aci-la.org/ALLAUDIO/Blissful_Path/DeLam%20Reading,%20no%20meds.pdf Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org For more information about Lama Marut, please visit http://www.LamaMarut.org For additional audio teachings, please visit http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html To subscribe to Lama Marut's "Inciting Happiness" podcasts of unabridged teachings please go to http://www.aci-la.org/inciting_happiness.html To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please visit http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html | 1/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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This Blessed Life | Lama Marut talks about how important it is not to waste the incredible spiritual opportunities afforded us by the great leisure and fortune we have. This podcast was taken from the 2009 Thanksgiving Retreat, “Blissful Path to Bliss,” held at Lake Tahoe. For the text associated with this teaching, please download from http://aci-la.org/ALLAUDIO/Blissful_Path/DeLam%20Reading,%20no%20meds.pdf Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org For more information about Lama Marut, please visit http://www.LamaMarut.org For additional audio teachings, please visit http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html To subscribe to Lama Marut's "Inciting Happiness" podcasts of unabridged teachings please go to http://www.aci-la.org/inciting_happiness.html To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please visit http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html | 1/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Radical Self-Ectomy | The role of the spiritual guide is to help you exorcise your ego. This podcast was taken from the 2009 Thanksgiving Retreat, “Blissful Path to Bliss,” held at Lake Tahoe. For the text associated with this teaching, please download from http://aci-la.org/ALLAUDIO/Blissful_Path/DeLam%20Reading,%20no%20meds.pdf Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org For more information about Lama Marut, please visit http://www.LamaMarut.org For additional audio teachings, please visit http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html To subscribe to Lama Marut's "Inciting Happiness" podcasts of unabridged teachings please go to http://www.aci-la.org/inciting_happiness.html To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please visit http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html | 1/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Attainable Enlightenment | Lama Marut shows us what an attainable enlightenment might be like and guides us where to begin: with contentment This podcast was taken from “Being Unfabulous: The Apotheosis of Ordinary Jo(e),” Lucky Lotus, Brooklyn, NY, USA, September 3, 2010. For the text associated with this teaching, please download from http://www.aci-la.org/ALLAUDIO/OrdinaryJoe/BEING%20UNFABULOUS%20HANDOUT.pdf For more information about Lama Marut, please visit http://www.LamaMarut.org For additional audio teachings, please visit http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html To subscribe to Lama Marut's "Inciting Happiness" podcasts of unabridged teachings please go to http://www.aci-la.org/inciting_happiness.html To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please visit http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html | 12/26/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Taking Refuge Vows | A concise review of the twelve commitments that are included when one takes Buddhist refuge vows. This podcast was taken from a Thanksgiving weekend retreat held in South Lake Tahoe in 2007. For more information about Lama Marut, please check out www.lamamarut.org. For additional audio teachings, please go to http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html. To subscribe to Lama Marut’s “Inciting Happiness” podcasts of unabridged teachings, go to > html://www.aci-la.org/inciting_happiness.html. To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts, visit > http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html | 12/21/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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All Day Yoga | The real practice of Yoga is about much more than just the physical poses and doesn't end when you leave the Yoga mat. Lama Marute summarizes the main components of an all day Yoga practice. This podcast was taken from "How Yoga Works", Melbourne Australia January 2009 For more information about Lama Marut, please check out http://www.LamaMarut.org For additional audio teachings, please visit http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html To subscribe to Lama Marut's "Inciting Happiness" podcasts of unabridged teachings please go to http://www.aci-la.org/inciting_happiness.html To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please visit: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html | 11/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Way Things Really Are | Lama Marut concludes these teachings on the six guidelines for success in business with a teaching about the way things really are. This podcast was taken from “Karmic Management” given in Munich, Germany, on April 22, 2009. For the text associated with this teaching, please download from http://www.aci-la.org/ALLAUDIO/KarmicManagement/Munich_2009/THE%20SIX%20PERFECTIONS_business.pdf For more information about Lama Marut, please check out http://www.LamaMarut.org For additional audio teachings, please visit http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html To subscribe to Lama Marut's "Inciting Happiness" podcasts of unabridged teachings please go to http://www.aci-la.org/inciting_happiness.html To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please visit: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html | 10/31/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Karmic Management | At the end of our lives, what matters most to us is how we’ve treated others. Lama Marut tells us that’s the key to true karmic management. This podcast was taken from “Karmic Management” given in Munich, Germany, on April 22, 2009. For the text associated with this teaching, please download from http://www.aci-la.org/ALLAUDIO/KarmicManagement/Munich_2009/THE%20SIX%20PERFECTIONS_business.pdf For more information about Lama Marut, please check out http://www.LamaMarut.org For additional audio teachings, please visit http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html To subscribe to Lama Marut's "Inciting Happiness" podcasts of unabridged teachings please go to http://www.aci-la.org/inciting_happiness.html To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please visit: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html | 10/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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All Financial Success Comes from Generosity | In showing business people how to grow their companies, Lama Marut focuses on the first of the six guidelines for success, generosity, by looking at developing a giving state of mind. This podcast was taken from “Karmic Management” given in Munich, Germany, on April 22, 2009. For the text associated with this teaching, please download from http://www.aci-la.org/ALLAUDIO/KarmicManagement/Munich_2009/THE%20SIX%20PERFECTIONS_business.pdf For more information about Lama Marut, please check out http://www.LamaMarut.org For additional audio teachings, please visit http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html To subscribe to Lama Marut's "Inciting Happiness" podcasts of unabridged teachings please go to http://www.aci-la.org/inciting_happiness.html To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please visit: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html | 10/11/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How to Succeed in Business | Lama Marut outlines the six guidelines for success in business. This podcast was taken from “Karmic Management” given in Munich, Germany, on April 22, 2009. For the text associated with this teaching, please download from http://www.aci-la.org/ALLAUDIO/KarmicManagement/Munich_2009/THE%20SIX%20PERFECTIONS_business.pdf For more information about Lama Marut, please check out http://www.LamaMarut.org For additional audio teachings, please visit http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html To subscribe to Lama Marut's "Inciting Happiness" podcasts of unabridged teachings please go to http://www.aci-la.org/inciting_happiness.html To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please visit: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html | 9/25/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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You’re Almost There | In a jewel of a teaching Lama Marut cuts to the heart of the Buddhist goal so you can see how close you really are to achieving it. This podcast was taken from the “Healing for Happiness Retreat,” Zen Center Retreat, Idyllwild, CA, in April 2010. Download the text referred to in this podcast: http://aci-la.org/ALLAUDIO/Healing_for_Happiness/Healing%20for%20Happiness.pdf For more audio teachings, please visit: http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html and http://www.lamamarut.org To subscribe to Lama Marut's "Inciting Happiness" podcasts of unabridged teachings please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/inciting_happiness.html To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please visit: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html | 9/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How You Can Change Your World | Lama Marut says that you change your understanding of who you once were by starting today to act differently, to think differently, to speak differently – but you must do it with genuine conviction. This podcast was taken from the “Healing for Happiness Retreat,” Zen Center Retreat, Idyllwild, CA, in April 2010. Download the text referred to in this podcast: http://aci-la.org/ALLAUDIO/Healing_for_Happiness/Healing%20for%20Happiness.pdf For more audio teachings, please visit: http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html and http://www.lamamarut.org To subscribe to Lama Marut's "Inciting Happiness" podcasts of unabridged teachings please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/inciting_happiness.html To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please visit: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html | 9/12/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Gratitude Makes You Happy | Lama Marut teaches the snowball effect of gratitude – the more you see how much others are doing for you, the more you will notice how grateful you really are and the happier you'll actually feel. This podcast was taken from the “Healing for Happiness Retreat,” Zen Center Retreat, Idyllwild, CA, in April 2010. Download the text referred to in this podcast: http://aci-la.org/ALLAUDIO/Healing_for_Happiness/Healing%20for%20Happiness.pdf For more audio teachings, please visit: http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html and http://www.lamamarut.org To subscribe to Lama Marut's "Inciting Happiness" podcasts of unabridged teachings please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/inciting_happiness.html To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please visit: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html | 9/5/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Father, Forgive Them for They Know Not What They Do | Lama Marut helps you practice forgiving someone who’s hurt you in the past. This podcast was taken from the “Healing for Happiness Retreat,” Zen Center Retreat, Idyllwild, CA, in April 2010. Download the text referred to in this podcast: http://aci-la.org/ALLAUDIO/Healing_for_Happiness/Healing%20for%20Happiness.pdf For more audio teachings, please visit: http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html and http://www.lamamarut.org To subscribe to Lama Marut's "Inciting Happiness" podcasts of unabridged teachings please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/inciting_happiness.html To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please visit: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html | 8/28/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Extreme Misery Makeover | This teaching is a real “how-to” to make over pain into something useful for your spiritual life. This podcast was taken from the “Healing for Happiness Retreat,” Zen Center Retreat, Idyllwild, CA, in April 2010. Download the text referred to in this podcast: http://aci-la.org/ALLAUDIO/Healing_for_Happiness/Healing%20for%20Happiness.pdf For more audio teachings, please visit: http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html and http://www.lamamarut.org To subscribe to Lama Marut's "Inciting Happiness" podcasts of unabridged teachings please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/inciting_happiness.html To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please visit: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html | 8/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jujitsuing Mental Afflictions into Wise Desire and Wise Anger | Touching on one of the secret teachings of Buddhism, Lama Marut talks about how to transmute mental afflictions into purified forms. This podcast was taken from the "Healing for Happiness Retreat," Zen Center Retreat, Idyllwild, CA,in April 2010. Download the text referred to in this podcast: http://aci-la.org/ALLAUDIO/Healing_for_Happiness/Healing%20for%20Happiness.pdf For more audio teachings, please visit: http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html and http://www.lamamarut.org To subscribe to Lama Marut's "Inciting Happiness" podcasts of unabridged teachings please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/inciting_happiness.html To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please visit: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html | 8/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Ya Gotta Feel to Heal | Because we've got to heal before we can be truly happy, Lama Marut suggests we look ruthlessly at our hurt and he gives us a powerful exercise to help. This podcast was taken from the "Healing for Happiness Retreat," Zen Center Retreat, Idyllwild, CA,in April 2010. Download the text referred to in this podcast: http://aci-la.org/ALLAUDIO/Healing_for_Happiness/Healing%20for%20Happiness.pdf For more audio teachings, please visit: http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html and http://www.lamamarut.org To subscribe to Lama Marut's "Inciting Happiness" podcasts of unabridged teachings please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/inciting_happiness.html To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please visit: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html | 8/7/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Surf the Change | Lama Marut guides us through one of the more radical teachings in Buddhism about the changing nature of reality and our only option for happiness. This podcast was taken from "Running a Car Bomb into your Self-Cherishing," a teaching given at the Mahasukha Center in LA on April 12, 2010. Download the text referred to in this podcast: http://www.aci-la.org/ALLAUDIO/Lojong_2009/Car_Bomb_LA_2010/LA%20lojong%20text.pdf For more audio teachings, please visit: http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html and http://www.lamamarut.org To subscribe to Lama Marut's "Inciting Happiness" podcasts of unabridged teachings please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/inciting_happiness.html To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please visit: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html | 7/31/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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When the Wagons Circle around "Me" | Lama Marut explains the Buddhist teaching about the Eight Worldly Thoughts and the karmic implications of them. This podcast was taken from "Running a Car Bomb into your Self-Cherishing," a teaching given at the Mahasukha Center in LA on April 12, 2010. Download the text referred to in this podcast: http://www.aci-la.org/ALLAUDIO/Lojong_2009/Car_Bomb_LA_2010/LA%20lojong%20text.pdf For more audio teachings, please visit: http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html and http://www.lamamarut.org To subscribe to Lama Marut's "Inciting Happiness" podcasts of unabridged teachings please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/inciting_happiness.html To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please visit: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html | 7/24/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Don’t Underestimate the Importance of Happiness | Lama Marut teaches the deepest lessons in Buddhism about the importance of happiness. This podcast was taken from "Running a Car Bomb into your Self-Cherishing," a teaching given at the Mahasukha Center in LA on April 12, 2010. Download the text referred to in this podcast: http://www.aci-la.org/ALLAUDIO/Lojong_2009/Car_Bomb_LA_2010/LA%20lojong%20text.pdf For more audio teachings, please visit: http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html and http://www.lamamarut.org To subscribe to Lama Marut's "Inciting Happiness" podcasts of unabridged teachings please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/inciting_happiness.html To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please visit: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html | 7/17/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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We Sell Happiness | Lama Marut says that if your religion isn't armed and dangerous to stop your suffering then it isn't doing what it's meant to: help you learn to be happy so that you can help others to be happy. This podcast was taken from "Running a Car Bomb into your Self-Cherishing," a teaching given at the Mahasukha Center in LA on April 12, 2010. Download the text referred to in this podcast: http://www.aci-la.org/ALLAUDIO/Lojong_2009/Car_Bomb_LA_2010/LA%20lojong%20text.pdf For more audio teachings, please visit: http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html and http://www.lamamarut.org To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please visit: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html To subscribe to Lama Marut's "Inciting Happiness" podcasts of unabridged teachings please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/inciting_happiness.html | 7/11/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Wise Up about What’s What | Lama Marut looks at a few of the antidotes to ignorance like seeking wisdom and finding and being grateful for our teachers. This podcast was drawn from a teaching at the Windhover Performing Arts Center in Rockport, MA, USA, in August of 2009. For more audio teachings, please visit: http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html and http://www.lamamarut.org To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please visit: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html | 7/3/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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A Beautiful Model for Learning | Lama Marut shows us how to learn spiritual qualities by watching them in others. This podcast was drawn from a teaching at the Windhover Performing Arts Center in Rockport, MA, USA, in August of 2009. Download the text referred to in this podcast: http://aci-la.org/ALLAUDIO/Windhover2009/Windhover09_handout_1.pdf For more audio teachings, please visit: http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html and http://www.lamamarut.org To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please visit: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html | 6/26/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Two Realities | Listen to this startling podcast and shake up your world. Lama Marut focuses on the radical idea of two realities. Deceptive reality refers to the way our minds are deceived by the appearance of things. Ultimate reality is a transformative experience beyond language! This podcast was drawn from a teaching at the Windhover Performing Arts Center in Rockport, MA, USA, in August of 2009. For more audio teachings, please visit: http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html and http://www.lamamarut.org To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please visit: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html | 6/20/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Brought to You by the Letter “E” | Enlightenment is possible because of emptiness. This podcast was drawn from a teaching at the Windhover Performing Arts Center in Rockport, MA, in August of 2009. For more audio teachings, please visit: http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html and http://www.lamamarut.org To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please visit: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html | 6/13/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The 9 Stages of Meditation | Lama Marut reviews the stages of meditation. Place yourself on the map and watch yourself improve from step to step. This podcast was taken from "Dharma Essentials 3: Applied Mediation" taught in LA in November of 2005. For the full audio teaching of this course, please visit: http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut-essential.html For the Dharma Essentials 3 reading, please visit: http://www.aci-la.org/ALLAUDIO/DE_III/DE_III.pdf For more audio teachings, please visit: http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html and http://www.lamamarut.org To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please visit: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html | 6/6/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Conquering Your Meditation Demons | Lama Marut gives solutions to four common obstacles to meditation. This podcast was taken from "Dharma Essentials 3: Applied Mediation" taught in LA in November of 2005. For the full audio teaching of this course, please visit: http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut-essential.html For the Dharma Essentials 3 reading, please visit: http://www.aci-la.org/ALLAUDIO/DE_III/DE_III.pdf For more audio teachings, please visit: http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html and http://www.lamamarut.org To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please visit: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html | 6/1/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Tips to Jumpstart Your Meditation Practice | In this step-by-step guide, Lama Marut gives us a gentle way to create a daily meditation practice. This podcast was taken from a teaching on “Meditation Essentials” given at Jivamukti in Munich, Germany, on May 7, 2010. For more audio teachings, please visit: http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html and http://www.lamamarut.org To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please visit: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html | 5/22/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Meditation Transforms Your Mind | The purpose of meditation is to transform the mind. Lama Marut discusses different qualities of meditative concentration and three types of meditation. This podcast was taken from Class 1 of Dharma Essentials 3: Applied Meditation. For the full audio teaching of this course, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut-essential.html For the reading referred to in this podcast, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/ALLAUDIO/DE_III/DE_III.pdf For more audio teachings, please visit: http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html and http://www.lamamarut.org To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please visit: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html | 5/15/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Word Up, Here’s Tantra! | When you start to act as if life is perfect here and now, you’re beginning to practice the secret teachings of Buddhism. Lama Marut talks about ways to test your readiness to live like a Jivanmukta, one who has been liberated. Download the text referred to in this podcast: http://www.aci-la.org/ALLAUDIO/Being%20Perfect/Mahasukha_Nov09/Perfection%20in%20this%20Lifetime%20LA.pdf For full audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html and http://www.lamamarut.org To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html | 4/18/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Which Comes First? | Lama Marut discusses several seminal ideas in Buddhist philosophy about how reality actually exists and looks at why it’s important to work hard so that we can end hard work. This podcast was taken from teachings on "Living the Perfect Life, Here and Now" given at the Mahasukha Center in LA on November 3 & 4, 2009. Download the text referred to in this podcast: http://www.aci-la.org/ALLAUDIO/Being%20Perfect/Mahasukha_Nov09/Perfection%20in%20this%20Lifetime%20LA.pdf For full audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html and http://www.lamamarut.org To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html | 4/10/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Flooring the Thunderbird into the Unknown | Lama Marut talks about the need to have a healthy, desperado attitude in working toward changing our interior worlds instead of spending our time suffering the ups and downs of our ever-changing world. This podcast was taken from teachings on "Living the Perfect Life, Here and Now" given at the Mahasukha Center in LA on November 3 & 4, 2009. Download the text referred to in this podcast: http://www.aci-la.org/ALLAUDIO/Being%20Perfect/Mahasukha_Nov09/Perfection%20in%20this%20Lifetime%20LA.pdf For full audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html and http://www.lamamarut.org To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html | 4/3/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Relax Into What Is | Lama Marut looks at what it takes to be truly free and, in a brief guided meditation, helps us get a glimpse of the kind of contentment that begins to create true freedom. This podcast was taken from teachings on "Living the Perfect Life, Here and Now" given at the Mahasukha Center in LA on November 3 & 4, 2009. Download the text referred to in this podcast: http://www.aci-la.org/ALLAUDIO/Being%20Perfect/Mahasukha_Nov09/Perfection%20in%20this%20Lifetime%20LA.pdf For full audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html and http://www.lamamarut.org To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html | 3/27/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Get ShAnti-fied | In this extraordinary podcast, Lama Marut breaks down the true nature of the “self” and then helps us see how to use that true nature to achieve ultimate happiness and śānti (pronounced “shAnti”), or peace. This podcast was taken from teachings on "Living the Perfect Life, Here and Now" given at the Mahasukha Center in LA on November 3 & 4, 2009. Download the text referred to in this podcast: http://www.aci-la.org/ALLAUDIO/Being%20Perfect/Mahasukha_Nov09/Perfection%20in%20this%20Lifetime%20LA.pdf For full audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html and http://www.lamamarut.org To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html | 3/20/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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For There To Be Night, There Must Be Day | Understanding opposites is the key to unlocking paradoxes. Transcending duality begins with contentment with how things are, here and now, and demands that we think of others before worrying about ourselves. This podcast was taken from teachings on "Living the Perfect Life, Here and Now" given at the Mahasukha Center in LA on November 3 & 4, 2009. Download the text referred to in this podcast: http://www.aci-la.org/ALLAUDIO/Being%20Perfect/Mahasukha_Nov09/Perfection%20in%20this%20Lifetime%20LA.pdf For full audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html and http://www.lamamarut.org To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html | 2/26/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rewire Your Instincts | How do you become a person who will always do the right thing, naturally and automatically? Lama Marut offers us a way to "model perfection" by impersonating people we've elevated to saint-like status. A truly religious person lives a spiritual life which is not intended to get something but rather to end something: to put an end to the way the mind screws stuff up. This podcast was taken from teachings on "Living the Perfect Life, Here and Now" given at the Mahasukha Center in LA on November 3 & 4, 2009. Download the text referred to in this podcast: http://www.aci-la.org/ALLAUDIO/Being%20Perfect/Mahasukha_Nov09/Perfection%20in%20this%20Lifetime%20LA.pdf For full audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html and http://www.lamamarut.org To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html | 2/20/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Being and Becoming the Goal | Lama Marut helps us see how to realize the goal by being the goal. As he often says, if we want to live a happy life then practice happiness. If we're interested in achieving the enlightened state then pretend to be an enlightened being, and, as we do, little by little we convince ourselves we are. The means and the ends become the same. This podcast was taken from a no holds barred teaching on "Living the Perfect Life, Here and Now" given at the Mahasukha Center, Los Angeles, CA on November 3 & 4, 2009. For full audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html and http://www.lamamarut.org To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html | 2/13/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How To Change the World, Part Two: Seeing Things Coming from You and Not At You | Lama Marut completes the teaching on the six perfections -- how we train to become a bodhisattva -- and then looks at why it is a bodhisattva activity to understand the distinction between deceptive reality and ultimate reality. This podcast was taken from a teaching on Tonglen given at the Compassion Retreat held in South Lake Tahoe in 2007. For full audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html and http://www.lamamarut.org To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html | 2/6/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How To Change the World, Part One: Introduction to the Six Perfections | Lama Marut has said that the secret to happiness is to stop thinking about ourselves and start thinking about and doing things for others. A bodhisattva dedicates their life to the service of everyone else and trains in the six perfections. Here Lama Marut talks about the first three of these perfections. This podcast was taken from a teaching on Tonglen given at the Compassion Retreat held in South Lake Tahoe in 2007. For full audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html and http://www.lamamarut.org To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html | 1/30/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Developing Bodhicitta | Bodhicitta is the wish to get enlightened as quickly as possible for the sake of all sentient beings. A bodhisattva is somebody who has bodhicitta. Being a bodhisattva is way more than just being a nice guy. What would it look like to have bodhicitta in our modern world? This podcast was taken from a teaching on Tonglen given at the Compassion Retreat held in South Lake Tahoe in 2007. For full audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html and http://www.lamamarut.org To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html | 1/23/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Big, Gnarly Warrior | The greatest enemy underlying all mental afflictions is self-grasping or self-cherishing. In this exciting and animated podcast, Lama Marut talks about how to use an energy that symbolizes a big, gnarly warrior to fight this enemy and end suffering. This podcast was taken from the annual Thanksgiving Retreat in Lake Tahoe in November of 2007. For the text referred to in this podcast, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/ALLAUDIO/DE_XIV/DEXIV.pdf For full audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html and http://www.lamamarut.org To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html | 1/16/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Secret of Happiness | Reprioritize your life: Stop killing time and instead realize happines. Lama Marut teaches us two methods to become happy, maitri ("loving-kindness") and karuna ("compassion"). This podcast was taken from the annual Thanksgiving Retreat in Lake Tahoe in November of 2007. Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org For full audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html and http://www.lamamarut.org To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html | 1/9/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Finding Your Teacher | Lama Marut concludes an interview with a discussion of how to approach a spiritual teacher, why the teacher is so important, the fears that surround the idea of a guru, and what the job of a teacher really is. This podcast was taken from an interview conducted with Lama Marut by Cindy Lee on Oct. 14, 2009. Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org For full audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html and http://www.lamamarut.org To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html | 1/2/10 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Addiction, Meditation, and Addiction to Meditation | The goal of Buddhism is to be free – to become unaddicted. Lama Marut urges us in this segment of an interview to work with the tool of meditation in order to regain control of ourselves and be free of our addictions. But he also warns us to not just get re-addicted to the peaceful, narcotic states of mind meditation brings. This podcast was taken from an interview conducted with Lama Marut by Cindy Lee on Oct. 14, 2009. Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org For full audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html and http://www.lamamarut.org To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html | 12/26/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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We're Stuck with Causality | Lama Marut continues in an interview setting to speak about being consistent in one’s worldview. Things don’t happen for no reason, but the belief in karma and causality is hard to maintain in times when it’s difficult to do so. This podcast was taken from an interview conducted with Lama Marut by Cindy Lee on Oct. 14, 2009 Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org For full audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html and http://www.lamamarut.org To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html | 12/19/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Westernizing Buddhism | In this interview, Lama Marut discusses Buddhism as it has come to the modern West and how we have a unique advantage of realizing the goals of this religion. This podcast was taken from an interview conducted with Lama Marut by Cindy Lee on Oct. 14, 2009 Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org For full audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html and http://www.lamamarut.org To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html | 12/12/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Guided Meditation on the Teachers in Our Lives | Lama Marut leads us through a meditation on the possibility that the people in our lives – especially the difficult ones -- are all teachers. This podcast was taken from a teaching at the annual Windhover Retreat in Rockport, Massachusetts, August of 2009 Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org For full audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html | 12/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Giving Yourself a Different Backstory | The only past that exists is part of present mind and is therefore changeable. If we change our conceptualization of who we think we were we will think of ourselves now differently. This podcast was taken from a teaching at the annual Windhover Retreat in Rockport, Massachusetts, August of 2009 Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org For full audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html | 11/29/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Trying to Find the Self | If there was a self the way we think there is, it would have to be the same as or different from its parts. The only self that exists is just a concept or idea of a self. The self is therefore perfectible if we create the karma that would force us to have a different conceptualization of ourselves. This podcast was taken from a teaching at the annual Windhover Retreat in Rockport, Massachusetts, August of 2009 Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org For full audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html | 11/21/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Deeper End of the Pool | Things exist only interdependently, but the relationship of dependence itself is dependent on the mind that perceives things dependently. Cause and effect, for example, is itself only a projection, and Lama Marut here shows us why. This podcast was taken from a teaching at the annual Windhover Retreat in Rockport, Massachusetts, August of 2009 Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org For full audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/teach_marut.html To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html | 11/15/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Just the Facts Ma’am | According to modern science, things are changing at a rate of three trillion times a second. But it doesn’t look that way. And it doesn’t look as though everything exists dependently and not independently. But subjects cannot exist without objects to perceive, and objects cannot exist without subjects to perceive them. This podcast was taken from a teaching at the annual Windhover Retreat in Rockport, Massachusetts, August of 2009 Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html | 11/8/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Things are Empty. . . and Therefore Changeable | If things weren’t empty, change would be impossible. Everything around us is constantly changing, but we are in denial about reality and we suffer as a result. This podcast was taken from a teaching at the annual Windhover Retreat in Rockport, Massachusetts, August of 2009 Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html | 11/3/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Frog in the Well Syndrome | Is it possible that your husband or wife, boyfriend or girlfriend, son or daughter, father or mother could be a divine being? Lama Marut here urges us to suspend our disbelief in order to entertain the possibility that there are forces at work that we don’t understand. This podcast was taken from a teaching at the annual Windhover Retreat in Rockport, Massachusetts, August of 2009 Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html | 10/24/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Perfection of Wisdom | The world is not what it seems and wisdom helps us penetrate the illusion. Lama Marut here lays out a three-step process about how to get rid of irritating people through substituting wisdom for ignorance. This podcast was taken from a talk given on June 13, 2008, at the Vipassana Center, Santa Cruz, CA Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html | 10/18/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Perfections of Patience, Joyful Effort, and Meditation | Patience is the opposite of anger, the greatest enemy to happiness. Joyful effort means working hard for things that really matter. And the perfection of meditation is to learn how to concentrate one-pointedly on something that will lead to a happier life. This podcast was taken from a talk given on June 13, 2008, at the Vipassana Center, Santa Cruz, CA Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html | 10/11/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Perfection of Ethics, Pt. 2 | One of the principal ways of motivating and focussing more carefully on our ethics is to remember that life is short and death is coming for sure, and thinking through carefully that fact that karma is certain. This podcast was taken from a talk given on June 13, 2008, at the Vipassana Center, Santa Cruz, CA Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html | 10/6/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Perfection of Ethics, Pt. 1 | The foundation of a happy life is restraining from harming others and from taking pleasure in their suffering. This podcast was taken from a talk given on June 13, 2008, at the Vipassana Center, Santa Cruz, CA Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html | 9/27/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Perfection of Giving | Giving, rather than just consuming, is designed to bring us happiness. Lama Marut here talks about what makes generosity “perfect” and reviews four kinds of giving. This podcast was taken from a talk given on June 13, 2008, at the Vipassana Center, Santa Cruz, CA Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html | 9/23/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Six Perfectionizers | The secret of your own happiness is to learn how to help others become happy. The six perfections – giving, ethics, patience, joyful effort, meditative concentration, and wisdom -- help us learn how to become perfect and happy. This podcast was taken from a talk given on June 13, 2008, at the Vipassana Center, Santa Cruz, CA Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html | 9/13/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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An Alternative to Unhappiness | The Buddha didn’t stop with the observation of the suffering nature of life. He also pointed out that suffering is caused, that there is an alternative to it, and a way to achieve that alternative. This podcast comes from a teaching given at the Vipassana Center in Santa Cruz, California, in June of 2008. Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html | 9/4/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The First Truth: Life is Stressful! | Lama Marut retells the story of the Buddha’s first words after his enlightenment concerning the suffering (or stressful) nature of life. This podcast comes from a teaching given at the Vipassana Center in Santa Cruz, California, in June of 2008. Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html | 8/26/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Transforming Your Mental Afflictions | When it comes to our mental afflictions, we have two choices: we can try to power through and overcome them, or we can transform them into something useful for our spiritual path. Lama Marut here discusses the second of these methods, the dangerous but swift path of tantra. This podcast comes from a teaching given as part of a Tibetan Heart Yoga Teacher Training program near Tucson, Arizona, on June 15, 2009. Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html | 8/2/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Using Suffering as a Spiritual Path | What should we do when other people hurt us? We can use suffering to develop ourselves spiritually, as we learn in this overview of a famous Tibetan Buddhist text on how to transform suffering into a path. This podcast comes from a teaching given as part of a Tibetan Heart Yoga Teacher Training program near Tucson, Arizona, on June 15, 2009. Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html | 7/26/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Freedom from the Four Attachments | Lama Marut reviews a famous text on the kinds of things we are attached to that prevent us from being true spiritual practitioners. This podcast comes from a teaching given as part of a Tibetan Heart Yoga Teacher Training program near Tucson, Arizona, on June 15, 2009. Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html | 7/20/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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You as the Spiritual Elite | If you’re even interested in a spiritual life, you are very special. Spiritual practitioners are not “ordinary.” Our lives are already full of miracles. The signs that we are slouching toward enlightenment are all around us. And wisdom is, in part, just recognizing your miraculous world for what it is. This podcast comes from teachings given at the annual Thanksgiving retreat weekend at Lake Tahoe, in November of 2008. Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html | 7/5/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Learning to Be a Good Student | Lama Marut here talks about how to develop the qualities of a be good student by avoiding the “three problems of the Starbucks cup.” This podcast comes from teachings given at the annual Thanksgiving retreat weekend at Lake Tahoe, in November of 2008. Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html | 6/28/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Mystical Secret of Guru Yoga | The point of guru yoga is to first become able to see the divine directly in your world, and then secondly to become the divine yourself. The esoteric, secret traditions of many world religions suggest something very radical: that the way to the goal of perfection is to practice it in the here and now. This podcast comes from teachings given at the annual Thanksgiving retreat weekend at Lake Tahoe, in November of 2008. Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html | 6/21/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Appearance of the Sacred in Another Being | The “guru” is nothing other than the appearance in your life of the sacred in the form of a living being. And the guru can appear in any way that would help you see the special nature of the world around you. The special people in your life, however, are only special if you constitute them as sacred and invest them with the power to help you. This podcast comes from teachings given at the annual Thanksgiving retreat weekend at Lake Tahoe, in November of 2008. Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html | 6/12/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Learning to Live in an Enchanted World . . . by Changing You | We all have a deep desire to live in a world of magic and miracles. We can, with training, learn to see the sacred and special all around us. The perception that things are just ordinary is just a subjective interpretation. When we change the subjective apparatus that filters our perceptions of the world, our world will change. This podcast comes from teachings given at the annual Thanksgiving retreat weekend at Lake Tahoe, in November of 2008. Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html | 5/31/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Rediscovering the Miraculous Nature of Everyday Life | Which part of you doesn’t want to be happy? Holding onto the idea that nothing is special or extraordinary – that life is just humdrum and meaningless – is a major obstacle to happiness and the compassion that true happiness makes possible. The way to this goal is to reintroduce the sacred into our lives. This podcast comes from teachings given at the annual Thanksgiving retreat weekend at Lake Tahoe, in November of 2008. Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html Visit Lama Marut's Blog at: http://www.lamamarut.org | 5/24/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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How to Keep Your Vows Well | Lama Marut reviews five steps that will help us treasure and keep the vows we’ve taken, and the causes for why you would break your vows and the antidotes for those causes. This podcast comes from teachings given in Vancouver in February of 2009. Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html Visit Lama Marut's Blog at: http://www.lamamarut.org | 5/20/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Four White Deeds | Some of the secondary vows of a bodhisattva are designed to train us to be honest with others and also to try to see the best in things and people instead of always focussing on the negative. This podcast comes from teachings given in Vancouver in February of 2009. Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html Visit Lama Marut's Blog at: http://www.lamamarut.org | 5/7/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Sticking With Your Tradition and Teacher | Sometimes we encounter teachings within our tradition that we can’t accept at present or feel doubts about our teachers. Instead of definitively rejecting such teachings or the teacher, it is important to try to just “shelve it” rather than just abandon your religion or your teacher when things get hard. The practitioners who stick to it make real progress, whereas those who just bail out over and over again do not. This podcast comes from teachings given in Vancouver in February of 2009. Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html Visit Lama Marut's Blog at: http://www.lamamarut.org | 5/3/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Four Points of the Practice of Virtue | The essence of the bodhisattva’s way of life is not returning harm with harm. A spiritual practitioner must learn to “turn the other cheek,” but also must know why it’s so important to do so. This podcast comes from teachings given in Vancouver in February of 2009. Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html Visit Lama Marut's Blog at: http://www.lamamarut.org | 4/28/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Breaking and Losing Our Vows | Lama Marut discusses the ways we can lose our bodhisattva vows – through wrong views, giving up on helping others, and by breaking a vows with the “four chains.” This podcast comes from teachings given in Vancouver in February of 2009. Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html Visit Lama Marut's Blog at: http://www.lamamarut.org For complete audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org | 4/19/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Training Ourselves in Selflessness | The vows of a bodhisattva guide us in leading a selfless, compassionate, and altruistic life. They help us lose ourselves in the service of others, and are based on understanding that all beings have just as much right as we do to be happy and avoid pain. Our own happiness is not somehow privileged, and when we realize this and begin to work toward the happiness of others we will truly be pursuing the causes of our own happiness. This podcast comes from teachings given in Vancouver in February of 2009. Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html Visit Lama Marut's Blog at: http://www.lamamarut.org For complete audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org | 4/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The EZ Form to Enlightenment | Buddhist vows are like training wheels for retraining our instincts and disciplining ourselves to do the right things. The first level of vows help us restrain our habit of hurting others, for harming others is the direct cause of our own suffering. This podcast comes from teachings given in Vancouver in February of 2009. Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html Visit Lama Marut's Blog at: http://www.lamamarut.org For complete audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org | 4/7/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Anger Begets More Anger | The karma of giving into anger is the propensity to get angry again. Even a little resistance can start to undermine anger’s power. Conversely, the habit of patience also snowballs over time, getting easier and easier the more we practice it. Eventually, we can even learn to be grateful to all those who hurt or irritate us. This podcast comes from teachings given at the Prana House, Melbourne, Australia, in January of 2009. Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html Visit Lama Marut's Blog at: http://www.lamamarut.org For complete audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org | 3/29/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Advantages of Forgiveness | Forgiveness is a virtue extolled in all the major world’s religions. Staying angry and resentful is inimical to our happiness. Anger is our enemy and in order to overcome it we must regard it as so and think continually about the many reasons why it is important to overcome anger and cultivate forgiveness. This podcast comes from teachings given at the Prana House, Melbourne, Australia, in January of 2009. Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html Visit Lama Marut's Blog at: http://www.lamamarut.org For complete audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org | 3/22/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Anger is Our Enemy | In this teaching from the chapter on patience from the “Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life,” Lama Marut discusses the many disadvantages of anger and the advantages of forgiving those who have hurt us. This podcast comes from teachings given at the Prana House, Melbourne, Australia, in January of 2009. Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html Visit Lama Marut's Blog at: http://www.lamamarut.org For complete audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org | 3/14/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Contentment, Here and Now | One kind of contentment is just being happy being in the present instead of constantly living in past and future. And when we think about the past we are needlessly making ourselves unhappy with nostalgia or resentment. In this podcast, Lama Marut teaches how to change your understanding of the past in order to be happier in the present. This podcast comes from teachings given at the Prana House, Melbourne, Australia, in January of 2009. Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html Visit Lama Marut's Blog at: http://www.lamamarut.org For complete audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org | 3/7/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Hardwired to be Happy | We are all hardwired to seek happiness and avoid pain. But we must first face up to the facts of suffering and realize that only the spiritual traditions offer a viable alternative. This podcast comes from teachings given at the Prana House, Melbourne, Australia, in January of 2009. Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html Visit Lama Marut's Blog at: http://www.lamamarut.org For complete audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org | 3/1/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Transforming Problems Into Opportunities | There are no problems “out there.” Problems are just interpretations -- and therefore can be reinterpreted. In this podcast, Lama Marut offers suggestions on how to disappear problems by thinking of them differently. This podcast comes from a retreat on compassion held over Thanksgiving weekend, 2007, in South Lake Tahoe. Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html Visit Lama Marut's Blog at: http://www.lamamarut.org For complete audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org | 2/22/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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APOLOGIES! Take Two: "Upsetting the Apple Cart" | *** Apologies listeners! There was a glitch in the Matrix with the last podcast. Please download this one if you had problems with yesterday's file *** Love, The "A Lama Sumati Marut Podcast" Team "Upsetting the Apple Cart" A real practitioner is counter-cultural, opposed to the status quo. Upset the apple cart! Don’t try to fit in! Break out of the chains of conformity and flow against the stream of samsara. This podcast comes from a teaching given at Zuda Yoga in Sacramento, California, in February of 2009. Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html Visit Lama Marut's Blog at: http://www.lamamarut.org For complete audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org | 2/11/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Upsetting the Apple Cart | A real practitioner is counter-cultural, opposed to the status quo. Upset the apple cart! Don’t try to fit in! Break out of the chains of conformity and flow against the stream of samsara. This podcast comes from a teaching given at Zuda Yoga in Sacramento, California, in February of 2009. Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html Visit Lama Marut's Blog at: http://www.lamamarut.org For complete audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org | 2/10/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Learning How to Live. . . and Die | How can we live a good spiritual life and die a good death? The essence of living well is service to others, especially one’s parents and one’s religious teacher. And just as a good life involves living for others, a good death is one done sacrificially and altruistically. This podcast comes from a retreat on compassion held over Thanksgiving weekend, 2007, in South Lake Tahoe. Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html Visit Lama Marut's Blog at: http://www.lamamarut.org For complete audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org | 1/18/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Cultivating Compassion, Love, and Wisdom | Compassion and love are the two wings of a good heart. They are the opposite of being happy about the unhappiness others experience, and being unhappy about the happiness of others. If we are interested in being happy ourselves, we must overcome these nasty tendencies toward envy and resentment which are, in turn, based on a false idea of a “me.” This podcast comes from a retreat on compassion held over Thanksgiving weekend, 2007, in South Lake Tahoe. Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html Visit Lama Marut's Blog at: http://www.lamamarut.org For complete audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org | 1/1/09 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Four Levels of Compassion | Developing true compassion begins first with identification and renunciation of one’s own suffering, then moves through “grandmotherly compassion” and “ruthless compassion,” and ends with “diamond compassion” which is shot through with wisdom. This podcast comes from a retreat on compassion held over Thanksgiving weekend, 2007, in South Lake Tahoe. Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html Visit Lama Marut's Blog at: http://www.lamamarut.org For complete audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org | 12/22/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Start with Compassion for Yourself | Compassion for others depends on first having compassion for yourself, which means recognizing your own suffering and really wanting to end it. Stop playing footsies with samsara! Until you do, you won’t really be serious about pursuing an alternative and you won’t really take the sufferings of others to heart. This podcast was taken from a teaching given at the Mahasukha Center in Los Angeles, Dec. 4, 2008 Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html Visit Lama Marut's Blog at: http://www.lamamarut.org For complete audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org | 12/17/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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What Makes Truth True | “Dharma” means what will hold you up, what you can count on when things go wrong. Dharma also means “the truth” or “what is real.” And ultimately the only real criterion for counts as truth is what leads to a good life – the wisdom and compassion that leads to happiness for yourself and those around you. This podcast was taken from a teaching given at the Mahasukha Center in Los Angeles, Dec. 4, 2008 Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html Visit Lama Marut's Blog at: http://www.lamamarut.org For complete audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org | 12/9/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Insanity of Consumer Capitalism | The purpose of religion is to learn how to live a happy life. Consumer capitalism, on the other hand, depends on our constantly dissatisfaction. Unbridled greed doesn’t work! Try something different – a spiritual life, where we learn how to stop worrying about ourselves all the time and train ourselves to think about others. This podcast was taken from a public talk on “How Yoga Works” given in October, 2008, at Go Yoga in Brooklyn, New York. Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html Visit Lama Marut's Blog at: http://www.lamamarut.org For complete audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org | 12/2/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Stopping the Ways the Mind Turns Things Around | In a review of some of the most important verses of the Yoga Sutra, Lama Marut explicates what the “path of seeing” is and the “three spheres” of emptiness. This podcast was taken from a yoga teacher training retreat weekend held in September, 2008, at South Lake Tahoe and sponsored by Zuda Yoga. Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html Visit Lama Marut's Blog at: http://www.lamamarut.org For complete audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org | 11/24/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Five Powers of Yogic Practice | In the second stage of one’s yoga practice, the yogi cultivates five powers or qualities: confidence, joyful effort, mindfulness, meditation, and wisdom. This podcast was taken from a yoga teacher training retreat weekend held in September, 2008, at South Lake Tahoe and sponsored by Zuda Yoga. Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html Visit Lama Marut's Blog at: http://www.lamamarut.org For complete audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org | 11/19/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Yoga and Renunciation | The first “path” or stage on our way to the goal of yoga is to obtain detachment from the sources of our suffering and then develop a strong practice which is steady, without gaps, and done according to the instruction of your teacher. This podcast was taken from a yoga teacher training retreat weekend held in September, 2008, at South Lake Tahoe and sponsored by Zuda Yoga. Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html Visit Lama Marut's Blog at: http://www.lamamarut.org For complete audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org | 11/9/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Yoga and the Five Paths to Enlightenment | The first chapter of the Yoga Sutra outlines five stages as we move toward final happiness, providing a kind of roadmap to Enlightenment. This podcast was taken from a yoga teacher training retreat weekend held in September, 2008, at South Lake Tahoe and sponsored by Zuda Yoga. Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html Visit Lama Marut's Blog at: http://www.lamamarut.org For complete audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org | 11/3/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Yoga is Stopping the Perversions of the Mind | In the Yoga Sutra, yoga is defined as “stopping the way the mind turns things around.” In this podcast, Lama Marut reviews the four main ways our mind misunderstands reality and causes us to suffer. This podcast was taken from a yoga teacher training retreat weekend held in September, 2008, at South Lake Tahoe and sponsored by Zuda Yoga. Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html Visit Lama Marut's Blog at: http://www.lamamarut.org For complete audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org | 10/26/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Honor the Lineage by Honoring the Teacher | “Yoga” means to “unite” or “yoke” yourself to something, and the highest form of yoga is connecting yourself to a teacher –- “guru yoga” – and to an authentic lineage. Now that yoga has come to the West, it is our responsibility to preserve this tradition, and we do so in part by respecting our teachers and the lineages they represent. This podcast was taken from a yoga teacher training retreat weekend held in September, 2008, at South Lake Tahoe and sponsored by Zuda Yoga. Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html Visit Lama Marut's Blog at: http://www.lamamarut.org For complete audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org | 10/19/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Yoga and Happiness | Yoga is meant to produce happiness, and in order to reach that end we must practice. We start by just pretending to be happy, by “impersonating a happy person,” and training ourselves to do the opposite of our instincts (which are usually 180 degrees wrong). Yoga, claims Lama Marut, is the inversion of the ordinary. This podcast was taken from a yoga teacher training retreat weekend held in September, 2008, at South Lake Tahoe and sponsored by Zuda Yoga. Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html Visit Lama Marut's Blog at: http://www.lamamarut.org For complete audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org | 10/12/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Karma Yoga: Disciplining One’s Actions | Yoga is a whole lifestyle, which includes disciplining the mind and one’s actions and life all day long. In this podcast, Lama Marut reviews yoga as it is taught in the Bhagavad Gita and then concentrates on the practice of karma yoga, especially as it pertains to being very careful about one’s morality and not harm others. We must discipline ourselves to retrain our instincts in order to avoid suffering and eventually attain the freedom yoga promises. This podcast was taken from a teaching given at The Shala yoga center in New York City in December, 2007. Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html Visit Lama Marut's Blog at: http://www.lamamarut.org For complete audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org | 10/3/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Cleaning Past Bad Karma | Can we destroy bad karma from the past before it ripens? In this podcast, Lama Marut points out that karma itself is “empty” and therefore certainly can be changed. And he tells us how – through exercising the “four forces” of refuge, regret, restraint, and reparation. This podcast was extracted from a teaching given as part of Kelly Morris’s Conquering Lion Teacher Training Program in New York City, December, 2007. Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html Visit Lama Marut's Blog at: http://www.lamamarut.org For complete audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org | 9/28/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Morphing Buddhism without Losing the Core: An Interview with Lama Marut, Part 2 | As Buddhism comes to the West, it must change to fit the new times and culture. The traditional patriarchal orientation of Asian Buddhism cannot last here, nor can the traditional division between the monastics and the laity. But the essence cannot be watered down if Buddhism is to survive here. The fundamental teachings on emptiness and dependent origination are the core, and their radical implications are central to the religion of Mahayana Buddhism. This interview was conducted in July of 2008 in Tucson, Arizona. Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html Visit Lama Marut's Blog at: http://www.lamamarut.org For complete audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org | 9/20/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Emptiness and the Possibility of Becoming Perfect and Immortal: An Interview with Lama Marut, Part 1 | In this interview, Lama Marut decries the tendency of Western Buddhism to dumb down the Buddha’s teaching and present it as just a handmaiden to modern psychology. The Buddha’s teaching is not merely a coping mechanism to help us suffer a little less. It is meant to produce perfect happiness and full Buddhahood, and these high goals are possible to reach because everything is empty of having any nature of its own. This interview was conducted in July of 2008 in Tucson, Arizona. Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html Visit Lama Marut's Blog at: http://www.lamamarut.org For complete audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org | 9/10/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Reaching Jesus | Our spiritual path involves the attempt to “reach” the divine, and in two senses. First, we reach the divine in the sense of seeing them in our world as the divine. The sacred is imminent, but we don’t recognize it. Once we “reach” the divine in the first sense, we are close to “reaching” in the second sense. Once we see Jesus in the world around us we are ready to become Jesus. This podcast was extracted from a set of teachings on Christianity given in New York City in April of 2008. Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html Visit Lama Marut's Blog at: http://www.lamamarut.org For complete audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org | 9/3/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Be Perfect, as Your Father in Heaven is Perfect | Jesus’s said it was possible to achieve perfection, and we must believe that if we are ever going to achieve perfection. If there were a hard-wired “self” that existed as a limited, suffering being, perfection would be impossible. Fortunately, the self is just an idea, a concept, that can be changed over time. It is our destiny, our higher calling, to reach perfection in this life. And on the way to that goal, we will all one day have a direct and transformative experience of the sacred. This podcast was extracted from a set of teachings on Christianity given in New York City in April of 2008. Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html Visit Lama Marut's Blog at: http://www.lamamarut.org For complete audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org | 8/21/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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They Know Not What They Do | Jesus’s last words on the cross were, “Father forgive them, for they know not what they do.” We do not know what we’re doing; we are very, very ignorant. We must recognize our ignorance before we can replace it with wisdom. Four types of ignorance – four types of ways our minds turn things around -- are identified in this podcast. This podcast was extracted from a set of teachings on Christianity given in New York City in April of 2008. Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html Visit Lama Marut's Blog at: http://www.lamamarut.org For complete audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org | 7/19/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Truth Shall Set You Free | There’s a freeing power to the truth, for we are imprisoned by our ignorance. Error has kept us in chains. And one of the principal manifestation of error in our lives is thinking that things exist in ways that they cannot -- essentially, objectively, and as unitary things that exist as wholes apart from our minds that construct them into those wholes. Things must be coming from us and not at us. The truth shall set you free! This podcast was extracted from a set of teachings on Christianity given in New York City in April of 2008. Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html Visit Lama Marut's Blog at: http://www.lamamarut.org For complete audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org | 7/13/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Kingdom of Heaven Comes Gradually | As we move toward the highest spiritual goal – the perfect happiness Jesus called the “Kingdom of Heaven” – we have to maintain a regular and on-going training. Daily practice and self-discipline is mandatory; we achieve our goals only gradually. But we are getting closer and closer to the “Kingdom of Heaven,” and the proof of that is the miracles – like the internet itself – which are springing up all around us. Our experience of the world is just the product of our conceptualizations of it. Things are coming from us, not at us. We need to plant the karmic seeds to see the world as perfect. This podcast was extracted from a set of teachings on Christianity given in New York City in April of 2008. Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html Visit Lama Marut's Blog at: http://www.lamamarut.org For complete audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org | 7/6/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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You Shall Reap What You Sow | Jesus taught karma, just like the Buddha and other teachers of the Eastern traditions. We can’t achieve security and peace by bringing insecurity to others through making war on them. We all receive what we have done to others. And the wisdom side of religious traditions teach us why it is possible to work the cosmic rules and achieve the “Kingdom of Heaven” here and now. This podcast was extracted from a set of teachings on Christianity given in New York City in April of 2008. Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html Visit Lama Marut's Blog at: http://www.lamamarut.org For complete audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org | 6/30/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Jesus was a Radical | Jesus’s message was revolutionary, and we as spiritual practitioners should try to imitate Christ. The spiritual life isn’t to learn to fit in better with society but to break from it and to try reach the “kingdom of heaven” which is within each of us. We can’t serve both God and Mammon, the spiritual life and shopping mall culture, at the same time. We have to make some choices, beginning with turning off the television! This podcast was extracted from a set of teachings on Christianity given in New York City in April of 2008. Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html Visit Lama Marut's Blog at: http://www.lamamarut.org For complete audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org | 6/22/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Terrorist Activity Against Your Self-Cherishing | Other beings give us the opportunity to overcome the very source of our own suffering – our self-cherishing. We need to develop techniques to go against the grain of our selfishness; we need to dismantle our pride in self in order to be happy. This podcast reviews some of the radical methods for winning the “big smackdown” with selfishness and for doing what we must do to be happy and live a kind, compassionate life. This podcast was extracted from a set of teachings on compassion given at a retreat in South Lake Tahoe, California, over Thanksgiving weekend, 2007. Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html Visit Lama Marut's Blog at: http://www.lamamarut.org For complete audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org | 6/15/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Four Great Facts | The “Four Great Facts” keep us balanced between the two extremes of a) thinking things exist “out there,” on their own, objectively, and b) thinking that things don’t exist at all. First, nothing exists “naturally” or independently, but (second) that doesn’t mean that things don’t exist at all. Third, everything exists “merely by convention” (“nominally,” or because we project them), but (fourth) everything exists without existing naturally. What this means is that nothing exists independently, but everything does exist interdependently. Which also means everything can change! This podcast comes from a “Dharma Essentials” course on the Diamond Cutter Sutra taught in Los Angeles in April, 2007. Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html Visit Lama Marut's Blog at: http://www.lamamarut.org For complete audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org | 6/8/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Things Exist. . . But Not How They Seem | The “Middle Way” of Buddhist philosophy is located between the extremes of thinking that things must exist the way they seem, on the one hand; and thinking that if they don’t exist as they seem they must not exist at all on the other. Things do exist, but they do not exist objectively. They exist when we perceive them, and not until then. Science itself is not an objective observation of the world but rather a set of ever-changing projections about the world. This podcast comes from a “Dharma Essentials” course on the Diamond Cutter Sutra taught in Los Angeles in April, 2007. Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html Visit Lama Marut's Blog at: http://www.lamamarut.org For complete audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org | 5/25/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Stop Honking in Gridlock! | The training in wisdom – how things exist and how they don’t – saves us from perpetuating our suffering. When an unpleasant thing or person occurs, our wisdom helps us overcome our inclinations and break the cycle that brought us the unpleasant thing or person in the first place. Getting upset at things we ourselves created is like honking in a traffic jam – it just makes things worse! Nirvana is not somewhere else; it is potentially right here and now, if we stopped creating the causes for our own suffering. This podcast comes from a “Dharma Essentials” course on the Diamond Cutter Sutra taught in Los Angeles in April, 2007. Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html Visit Lama Marut's Blog at: http://www.lamamarut.org For complete audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org | 5/17/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Why We Should Do Good Things | It’s one thing to do good actions like giving because someone told you to do it or because you think it would be nice to. It’s quite another thing to give because you understand why. Lama Marut in this podcast goes into the emptiness of the “three spheres” of giving – and therefore why such an action works in beneficial ways to yourself. Understanding how things are really working can magnify the benefits of one’s good deeds. This is the way to enlightenment – knowing that karma itself is empty and just a projection like everything else. This podcast comes from a “Dharma Essentials” course on the Diamond Cutter Sutra taught in Los Angeles in April, 2007. Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html Visit Lama Marut's Blog at: http://www.lamamarut.org For complete audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org | 5/10/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Why We See Things the Way We Do | Using the example of a pen, Lama Marut shows how it is empty -- there’s something not there we thought was there. There’s no “pen-ness” to a pen, that is, no essence. It can’t exist “out there,” objectively or inherently, as a pen. It is not a pen until we conceptualize and label it as a pen. And all things exist only like that. But what causes us to label the things in the world the way we do? And how can we change those causes such that we would be forced to conceptualize our world and everything in it as perfect? This podcast comes from a “Dharma Essentials” course on the Diamond Cutter Sutra taught in Los Angeles in April, 2007. Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html Visit Lama Marut's Blog at: http://www.lamamarut.org For complete audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org | 5/4/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Suffering Beings Aren’t ‘Out There’ | The highest form of compassion or “bodhicitta” is divided into its “deceptive” and “ultimate” forms. The former is the wish to help alleviate the suffering of the beings who appear in our world. But ultimate bodhicitta is a transformative mystical experience that allows us to understand that there are no suffering beings who exist in any other way than as projections coming from us. This is the “good news” or “gospel” of emptiness: all things can be changed because all things are empty of having any nature of their own. This podcast comes from a “Dharma Essentials” course on the Diamond Cutter Sutra taught in Los Angeles in April, 2007. Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html Visit Lama Marut's Blog at: http://www.lamamarut.org For complete audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org | 4/26/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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There’s Something Missing Here | Understanding emptiness is the key to changing our lives quickly. But what does it mean? Something you thought was there isn’t there. This is the essence of wisdom: things don’t exist the way they seem to. Lama Marut in this segment explores the example of an irritating person – someone we think exists as such from their own side, intrinsically or inherently – and shows that an essentially irritating person is impossible. This podcast comes from a “Dharma Essentials” course on the Diamond Cutter Sutra taught in Los Angeles in April, 2007. Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html Visit Lama Marut's Blog at: http://www.lamamarut.org For complete audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org | 4/21/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Riding the Tiger of Guru Yoga and Getting in Touch with Your Inner Sadhu | Finding and learning how to think about the spiritual teacher is one of the high practices of yoga which are designed to work very fast. . . because it is so dangerous. Lama Marut here urges us not to domesticate the tiger that is your practice by making it safe. The purpose of one’s spiritual life is not to try to fit into samsara better. Rather, we must think of ourselves as alienated rebels, like the sadhus of traditional India. This podcast comes from teachings on the philosophy of yoga given in Vancouver, Canada, in March, 2008. Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please go to: : http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html Visit Lama Marut's Blog at: http://www.lamamarut.org For complete audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org | 4/11/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Guided Meditation: The Seven Steps to Achieving Ultimate Compassion | In this culmination of the last several podcasts on the seven steps for generating the highest form of compassion, “bodhicitta” or the determination to reach perfection so that you can bring all other beings to that state, Lama Marut leads a guided meditation through all the steps. This podcast was extracted from a set of teachings on compassion given at a retreat in South Lake Tahoe, California, over Thanksgiving weekend, 2007. Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please go to: : http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html Visit Lama Marut's Blog at: http://www.lamamarut.org For complete audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org | 4/5/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Going Against the Grain | Every day is another opportunity to start anew, to begin to seriously try to live a happy life dedicated to the service of others. But to do this we have to go “against the grain” of our own bad habits. We must say “no” to our addiction to suffering. To reverse our negative tendencies, we must first stop being complacent. We must stop being inured to our suffering, living in our little bubbles, and recognize it for what it is -- like the Buddha himself did when he finally left his pampered life and saw what this life really has in store for us. This podcast was extracted from a set of teachings on compassion given at a retreat in South Lake Tahoe, California, over Thanksgiving weekend, 2007. Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please go to: : http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html Visit Lama Marut's Blog at: http://www.lamamarut.org For complete audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org | 4/2/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Part 2: Seven Steps to Achieving Ultimate Compassion | This podcast concludes the overview of the classic seven-step cause and effect method for generating bodhicitta (“spiritual O.C.D.”). After a review of “step zero” (equalizing all beings) and step one (thinking of all beings as your mother), we continue to steps two (recollecting what your mother in this life has done for you), three (feeling deep indebtedness to your mother and all mother beings and the wish to repay them), four (the wish that all your mothers be happy), five (compassion for their suffering), six (taking personal responsibility for their welfare), and finally step seven, which is the determination to get enlightened as soon as possible in order to save all mother sentient beings. This podcast was extracted from a set of teachings on compassion given at a retreat in South Lake Tahoe, California, over Thanksgiving weekend, 2007. Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please go to: : http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html Visit Lama Marut's Blog at: http://www.lamamarut.org For complete audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org | 3/30/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Part 1: Seven Steps to Achieving Ultimate Compassion | The classic seven-step cause and effect method for achieving true compassion begins with “step zero.” We first try to gain equanimity, thinking that all beings (those I like, those I dislike, and those I’m neutral about) are equally worthy of my love and compassion. We’re then ready to begin with the first step proper, which is to consider all beings as having been your mother in past lives. To do this step, we also have to prove to ourselves that there have been countless past lives, without beginning. We have to reject the illogical idea that there could be a first cause that wasn’t itself caused and therefore everything is just unfolding randomly. This podcast was extracted from a set of teachings on compassion given at a retreat in South Lake Tahoe, California, over Thanksgiving weekend, 2007. Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please go to: : http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html Visit Lama Marut's Blog at: http://www.lamamarut.org For complete audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org | 3/30/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Forgive Your Enemies | Until we look at the fact that we actually don’t like some people – people who really irritate us or who have really hurt us – we can’t get rid of these wholly unhealthy feelings. Once we have admitted our anger, hatred, and hurt, we can then analyze whether or not they are in our best self-interest. To forgive others is hard, but we can’t wait for them to come groveling to us, begging us to forgive them. We must do it unilaterally and preemptively, because forgiveness isn’t for them, it’s for you. This podcast was extracted from a set of teachings on compassion given at a retreat in South Lake Tahoe, California, over Thanksgiving weekend, 2007. Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please go to: http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html Visit Lama Marut's Blog at: http://www.lamamarut.org For complete audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org | 3/15/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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An Interview with Lama Marut, Part 2 | Lama Marut here challenges some of the current Western understandings of Buddhism. As Buddhism comes to our culture we must be careful not to just extract what we find comfortable in Buddhism and ignore what might be difficult. Buddhism is not just a psychological tool for managing samsara. It is a method for overcoming all limitations (including death itself) and achieving total enlightenment in this very lifetime. Because everything is empty of self-existence, everything is possible. Write to us at: podcast@aci-la.org To subscribe to Lama Marut’s video podcasts please go to: : http://www.aci-la.org/mg-video.html Visit Lama Marut's Blog at: http://www.lamamarut.org For complete audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org | 3/1/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Getting Off of Planet Absurdo | We live in a society where our own science encourages us to believe that things happen just randomly and that life is meaningless. If we are to ground our morality in an understanding of real causality, we must rebel against the official worldview of our culture and the idea that the ultimate good is just shopping, entertaining ourselves, and the obsession with trivia. A real spiritual practitioner has to get off of “Planet Absurdo” and retreat to “Planet Sanity” in order to rehabilitate and get in a position to truly help others. This podcast is taken from a “Dharma Essentials” class taught in Los Angeles in December of 2007. For complete audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org and http://www.lamamarut.org | 2/23/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Fighting the Power | In order to live a happy life, we must resist the diversions of the secular life. Consumer capitalism cannot bring the happiness it promises, and we are living testimonials to this. We obtained everything consumer capitalism promised and we’re still unhappy. If we are going to be happy, we must be consumer capitalist drop-outs and revolutionaries and resist the power of insatiable desire and dissatisfaction. This podcast is taken from a class taught in Tucson, Arizona, in January of 2008. For complete audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org and http://www.lamamarut.org | 2/16/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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An Interview with Lama Marut | Lama Marut talks informally about Buddhism as a radical alternative to the “shopping mall culture” of modern West, and how the Buddha’s dharma should appeal especially to young people looking for an alternative to conformity, commodification, and consumer capitalism. | 2/9/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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There is a Method to Achieve Total Happiness: The Four Arya Truths, Part Four, 3 | In this final podcast on working on a daily basis for our highest happiness, Lama Marut urges us to check on our morality every few hours, do something for someone else every day, practice the “couch potato contemplation,” and end the day with study of a spiritual text. This podcast is taken from a series of teachings given at the Windhover Performing Arts Center in Cape Ann, Massachusetts, in August of 2007. For complete audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org and http://www.lamamarut.org | 2/2/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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There is a Method to Achieve Total Happiness: The Four Arya Truths, Part Four, 2 | In this second segment on how to develop a daily practice, Lama Marut picks up with the daily “morning loll” in which, before getting out of bed, we remember that each day could be the last one we have to live so we stop taking things for granted. We need to also learn to be “unbusy,” spending time quiet and alone every morning contemplating the meaning of our lives, practice daily meditation, and some kind of physical practice like yoga with the proper motivation. This podcast is taken from a series of teachings given at the Windhover Performing Arts Center in Cape Ann, Massachusetts, in August of 2007. For complete audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org and http://www.lamamarut.org | 1/29/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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There is a Method to Achieve Total Happiness: The Four Arya Truths, Part Four, 1 | In order to achieve the goal of a spiritual life – total and complete happiness – we have to retrain ourselves on a daily basis. In this first of three podcasts on how to develop a good daily practice, Lama Marut recommends that we get a good night sleep every night and wake up slowly and naturally every morning. And before getting out of bed recall what a miracle your life is. This podcast is taken from a series of teachings given at the Windhover Performing Arts Center in Cape Ann, Massachusetts, in August of 2007. For complete audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org and http://www.lamamarut.org | 1/20/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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There is an Alternative to Suffering: The Four Arya Truths, Part Three | The Buddha said that suffering is not inevitable. Buddhism, like all religions, holds out the promise of perfect happiness in the future. But we must work toward this goal in part by practicing being happy all the time. Lama Marut here points out that there is never a time where it makes sense to be anything other than happy. This podcast is taken from a series of teachings given at the Windhover Performing Arts Center in Cape Ann, Massachusetts, in August of 2007. For complete audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org and http://www.lamamarut.org | 1/11/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Suffering Has a Cause: The Four Arya Truths, Part Two | The second of the Buddha’s fundamental teachings is that suffering is caused. If we can stop the causes for unhappiness which we ourselves are perpetuating, we can stop our pain. To do this, however, we must first learn to stop blaming others for our suffering and take responsibility for ourselves and learn the real causes for our unhappiness. This podcast is taken from a series of teachings given at the Windhover Performing Arts Center in Cape Ann, Massachusetts, in August of 2007. For complete audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org and http://www.lamamarut.org | 1/4/08 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Truth of Suffering: The Four Arya Truths Part One | The Buddha’s first teachings were organized around what are called the "Four Noble Truths." The first of these is "The Truth of Suffering.” By understanding, as the Buddha did, the truth of the suffering of birth, sickness, old age, and death, we can begin our attempt to get to the real causes of ultimate happiness and the end of suffering. This podcast is taken from a series of teachings given at the Windhover Performing Arts Center in Cape Ann, Massachusetts, in August of 2007. For complete audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org and http://www.lamamarut.org | 12/31/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Guided Meditation on the Emptiness of Problems and Feelings | This series of podcasts on the six “flavours” of emptiness concludes with a guided meditation on the feelings that arise when we think about our problems. These feelings are impermanent, out of our control in the present moment, not just random but caused by karma, empty of having the qualities we impute on them, exist only as interpretations, and ultimately are entirely projected from us due to how we have treated others in the past. This podcast is taken from a retreat held over Thanksgiving weekend, 2006, in South Lake Tahoe, California. For complete audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org and http://www.lamamarut.org | 12/7/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Everything is Coming From Me, Not At Me: The Emptiness of Self-Existence | While the Buddha taught all the other of the lower worldviews we’ve reviewed in the past five podcasts, it is only the sixth and highest version of emptiness that is fully correct. The sixth “flavour” of emptiness is the contention that nothing is coming from “out there.” Everything is a projection or imputation coming from our minds, forced on us by how we have treated others in the past. And it is only this understanding of emptiness is that explains why our own Buddhahood and the transformation of our world into a paradise is really possible. This podcast is taken from a retreat held over Thanksgiving weekend, 2006, in South Lake Tahoe, California. For complete audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org and http://www.lamamarut.org | 11/30/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Turning Problems into Opportunities: The Emptiness of Things Coming from Their Own Side | The fifth of the six flavors of emptiness argues that things are coming half from the object and half from the subject or perceiver. Lama Marut explains the benefits of cultivating this worldview in order to transform apparent problems into opportunities. This podcast is taken from a retreat held over Thanksgiving weekend, 2006, in South Lake Tahoe, California. For complete audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org and http://www.lamamarut.org | 11/17/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Different Strokes for Different Folks: The Emptiness of Judgments | Lama Marut’s teachings on the mahamudra emptiness meditation continue with “worldview four” – things are empty of having the qualities we attribute to them from their own side. The judgments we make about things and people are coming from us, then projected onto those things and people, and then mistaken for qualities they inherently have. While this does not mean we shouldn’t judge others’ actions, we cannot legitimately go on to judge persons. Since we can never really know who another person is, we always have two unconfirmable possibilities: he or she is just an ordinary being, or that person is an enlightened angel sent to teach us. Which of these two possibilities would be more useful? This podcast is taken from a retreat held over Thanksgiving weekend, 2006, in South Lake Tahoe, California. For complete audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org and http://www.lamamarut.org | 11/10/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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There Are No Accidents: The Emptiness of Randomness | Continuing his teachings on the different schools’ understanding of emptiness, Lama Marut turns now to “worldview three”: things are empty of coming from any other place than karmic causes. This view, put forward by the “Mind Only” school of Buddhism, states that the object and the subject mind perceiving the object both come from a single karmic cause. This flavor of emptiness helps us take responsibility for ourselves rather than relying on the “magical worldview” adopted by the modern, secular West which allows for things which just happen for no reason. This podcast is taken from a retreat held over Thanksgiving weekend, 2006, in South Lake Tahoe, California. For complete audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org and http://www.lamamarut.org | 11/4/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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You Can't Change the Present: The Emptiness of a Controlling Self | In this second podcast on the topic of the various “flavors” of emptiness, Lama Marut covers the second level of understanding ultimate reality: Things are empty of having a “controlling self” or some kind of unchanging essence or self-nature. The example of an irritating person (who does not exist from his or her own side as an irritating person) is provided to prove that things are empty of having a “self” or essence but rather are empty in this way. A further implication of this is that we are empty of having a self that can control present things in the present. We must stop obsessing about things we can’t change in the present and always “garden” for future effects. This podcast is taken from a retreat held over Thanksgiving weekend, 2006, in South Lake Tahoe, California. For complete audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org and http://www.lamamarut.org | 10/28/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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This Too Shall Pass: The Emptiness of Permanence | Understanding emptiness is crucial to our spiritual progress, but too often the topic is presented merely theoretically and in complex philosophical language. Lama Marut teaches the different “flavors” of emptiness according to the different schools of Buddhism in easily understandable language and in a way designed to employ this wisdom practically in one’s everyday life. In this first of seven podcasts on the subject, Lama Marut provides an overview and then guides a meditation on the first flavor: Things are empty of permanence. This podcast is taken from a retreat held over Thanksgiving weekend, 2006, in South Lake Tahoe, California. For complete audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org and http://www.lamamarut.org | 10/20/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Let’s Talk About Our Relationship | Karma comes in three forms: good, bad, and neutral. But even good karma, which we experience as something pleasurable, just wears out as we use it up. We lose every good thing we have unless we recreate the causes that brought us the pleasant experience in the first place. If we want to maintain a good relationship with our partner, for example, we must think about what we could do to make them happy (the real and only cause for that good relationship in the first place) instead of always being concerned about what they could be doing for us to fill our needs and wants. This podcast is taken from a Diamond Mountain University course on “Karma Yoga in the Bhagavad Gita” taught in Tucson, Arizona, Oct. 9, 2007. For complete audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org and http://www.lamamarut.org | 10/14/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Desiring Happiness | We worship the things we desire. In this podcast, Lama Marut urges us to desire and worship happiness – to think of it as the highest goal and really strive to obtain it. For if we’re leading a happy life, we’re of benefit to others. If not, we’re a charity case. To achieve true happiness we must let go of our attachment to a lower, suffering self and desire “ecstasy,” which means to “stand outside” of our old caterpillar selves and become the butterflies we are meant to be. This podcast is taken from a Diamond Mountain University course on “Killing Anger” taught in Tucson, Arizona, in the spring of 2007. For complete audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org and http://www.lamamarut.org | 10/6/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Reaching the Lord | In this podcast, Lama Marut concludes His teachings on devotion (bhakti) in the Bhagavad Gita. We must ‘see beyond mere appearances’ and use our best understanding of emptiness to stay firm in our view of who the Guru really is for us. Through this practice, the first stage is that our Guru appears to us as perfect, an enlightened being, and through single-minded yoga they begin to appear to us everywhere and in all beings. The second stage is that we are yoked to, or merge with that being such that we become perfect ourselves. This is considered one of the most supreme esoteric teachings; the one who performs the highest devotion will reach the Lord. This podcast is taken from a teaching given in South Lake Tahoe, on the 31st of August, 2007 | 9/30/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Riding the Tiger | Once one has taken oneself to a spiritual teacher, there will certainly be challenges and difficulties. In this continuation of “guru yoga” according to the Bhagavad Gita, Lama Marut reviews some of the main problems one often faces in working with a spiritual teacher and the benefits that come if one perseveres in “riding the tiger.” At a certain point the guru will reveal themselves to you, just as Krishna does to Arjuna in the climax of the Gita. This podcast is taken from the Tibetan Heart Yoga, Series V, Teacher Training Course given at Tucson, Arizona, in September of 2007. For complete audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org and http://www.lamamarut.org | 9/24/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Surrendering to the Teacher | In this podcast, Lama Marut examines the Bhagavad Gita’s verses on single-minded devotion to the Guru. The devotional tradition discusses various methods such as developing faith, discipline and making offerings as ways in which we may lose our ‘small self’ in service to the teacher. In surrendering to the Guru, we are surrendering to the highest part of ourselves. Essentially we try to perfect ourselves by fixing the mind and intellect singularly on the perfection of another. This podcast is taken from a teaching given in South Lake Tahoe, on the 31st of August, 2007 | 9/19/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Yoga of Devotion | In the Bhagavad Gita, the yoga of devotion to your teacher (bhakti yoga) is considered the highest spiritual practice. This podcast examines who the Guru really is and the most beneficial way we can regard this special being in our lives. Because the Guru is "empty" we can usefully see him or her as being a full enlightened being who has come to help us directly on our path. Lama Marut asks, "If you can then expand that view to all beings in your world, what kind of being would that make you?" This podcast is taken from a teaching given in South Lake Tahoe, on the 31st of August, 2007 | 9/10/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Magic of Empty Teachers | The guru is empty, a projection or mirror of your own good qualities. In order to perfect oneself, one must first practice seeing perfection in another – in the first place, in the guru, and eventually in every other being. This podcast is taken from a teaching given to a small group in Kinvara, Ireland, on June 14, 2006. For complete audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org and http://www.lamamarut.org | 9/2/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Qualities of a Good Guru | In the Buddhist texts, a number of qualities one should look for in guru or spiritual teacher are enumerated. Before taking a guru, one should check to see if you see some or all of these qualities in a potential teacher. And once we have found a being that we see in this special way, we must learn how to think about him or her in the proper way – as nothing less than a full-fledged Buddha who has come into your life. This podcast is taken from a teaching given to a small group in Kinvara, Ireland, on June 14, 2006. For complete audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org and http://www.lamamarut.org | 8/27/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Taking Yourself to a Teacher | In this survey of the teachings in the Bhagavad Gita on the importance of the spiritual teacher (guru yoga), we learn the necessity of and the prerequisites for finding and taking yourself to the guru and thus beginning the process of one’s spiritual education. This podcast is taken from the Tibetan Heart Yoga, Series V, Teacher Training Course given at Tucson, Arizona, in September of 2006. For complete audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org and http://www.lamamarut.org | 8/22/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Guru Yoga: The Alpha and Omega of the Path | Linking or joining yourself to a guru or spiritual teacher is the beginning (“alpha”), middle, and end (“omega”) of the path to happiness and enlightenment. The first step is appreciating how important the guru is for us and being grateful for the teachers that have been and are in our lives already. But even more crucial is understanding where the guru is really coming from. Gurus don’t exist “out there” in the world as gurus. They are projections coming from the best part of us. Gurus, like everything else, are empty. This podcast is taken from a teaching given to a small group in Kinvara, Ireland, on June 14, 2006. For complete audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org and http://www.lamamarut.org | 8/18/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Be Here, Now | We often hear how important it is to live in the present in order to be happy. But what are the actual methods for doing this? Paradoxically, we are not in the present when we are overly self-conscious and we are fully present only when we wholly forget and lose ourselves in an activity. So in order to live in the here and now we must transcend the sense of self that keeps us from being truly present. In Buddhism, we do this through cultivating wisdom (realizing selflessness) and compassion (learning to care more about others than oneself). This podcast is taken from a teaching given at Santa Monica, California, on April 25, 2007. For complete audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org and http://www.lamamarut.org | 8/13/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Karmic Correlations | This podcast is a continuation of a review of the “rules for the good life” and how we can have trust and confidence in our future – and thereby live a happier present -- by attending to the present causes which bring subsequent effects. The “karmic correlations” between causes and effects according to Arya Nagarjuna’s “Precious Garland” which link specific moral actions to their results are delineated one by one. Learn where money, health, addictive behavior, beauty, stress, etc. really come from! This podcast is taken from a teaching given at Tucson, Arizona, on January 7, 2007. For complete audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org and http://www.lamamarut.org | 8/1/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Faith in the Future, Part 3: The Rules for the Good Life. | The present is a perfect reflection of how we’ve behaved in the past, and our future will be the exact result of the causes we are creating in the present. In this podcast, Lama Marut reviews the “rules for the good life,’ the moral principles which can guide us in how to live in the present in such as way that we can have confidence in and control of our future. This podcast is taken from a teaching given at Rockport, Massachusetts, on St. Patrick's Day, March 17, 2007. For complete audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org and http://www.lamamarut.org | 6/30/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Faith in the Future, Part 2 | Many religions urge us to develop faith in the future in order to live a happier life in the present. The opposite of faith is lazy doubt or irresolution about how life is working – which then results in anxiety. If we think about how things are really working and develop faith slowly, in stages, we will then be more conscientious about living a good life in the present and will then have certainty that our future will be just fine. This podcast is taken from a teaching given at a public talk in Los Angeles, California, on December 11, 2006. For complete audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org and http://www.lamamarut.org | 6/28/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Faith in the Future, Part 1 | Being happy in the present requires both that we revision our past (through forgiveness and gratitude) and that we overcome our anxieties about the future. In this podcast, Lama Marut urges us to stop imagining a nightmarish future and instead develop the antidote for anxiety: faith, trust, and confidence in the future. Grounding the teaching in verses from Arya Nagarjuna’s “Precious Garland,” we learn to rely on our practice and wisdom to gain control over our future by living a good moral life in the present. This podcast is taken from a teaching given at a public talk in Los Angeles, California, on December 11, 2006. For complete audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org and http://www.lamamarut.org | 6/24/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Wisdom and Forgiveness | Forgiveness helps us generate gratitude, love, and compassion toward others – and vice versa. If we can understand how much suffering others are going through we can gain a different perspective on why they would hurt us. If we can generate wisdom about what the real cause of pain in the world is – anger itself – then why would we ever feel anger ourselves? We must break the cycle and give up anger and resentment, practice forgiveness, and only wish happiness on others if we want to be happy ourselves. This podcast is taken from a teaching given at a public talk in Tucson, Arizona, on November 15, 2006. For complete audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org and http://www.lamamarut.org | 6/15/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Forgiveness and the Advantages of Suffering | How can we cultivate forbearance, patience, and forgiveness in our daily lives? One way to do so is to think about the advantages of suffering and be grateful for everything that has ever happened, very much including all the pain others have caused you. This podcast is taken from a teaching given at a public talk in Tucson, Arizona, on November 15, 2006. For complete audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org and http://www.lamamarut.org | 6/10/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Disadvantages of Anger | In a continuation of a teaching on forgiveness, in this podcast we turn to the problem of anger. We don’t forgive others because we’re angry at them. So if we are interested in cultivating forgiveness we must uproot anger through its opposite -- patience. Reviewing some relevant verses from the sixth chapter of Master Shantideva’s classic, Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life, Lama Marut here lays out some of the advantages of patience and forgiveness and the disadvantages of anger and resentment. This podcast is taken from a teaching given at Rockport, Massachusetts, on St. Patrick's Day, March 17, 2007. For complete audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org and http://www.lamamarut.org | 6/3/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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What Forgiveness Is and Isn't. | In this discussion about forgiveness, Lama Marut urges us to change the past by re-writing it in order to be happier in the present. In order to reinvent our past in a beneficial way, we need to let go of our resentments and forgive everybody who hurt or offended us. But we must also be clear on what forgiveness really is, and what it isn’t. This podcast is taken from a teaching given at Rockport, Massachusetts, on St. Patrick's Day, March 17, 2007. For complete audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org and http://www.lamamarut.org | 5/27/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Change the Past, Control the Future. | Can we change the past? Can we control the future? Lama Marut insists not only that we can but that we must do so in order to live a happy life in the present. This podcast is taken from a teaching given in Tucson, Arizona, on January7, 2007. For complete audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org and http://www.lamamarut.org | 5/20/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Practice of Gratitude. | How can we maintain constant awareness of all the things we have to be grateful for all day long? Lama Marut offers some practical advice on how to develop a practice of gratitude in our everyday lives. This talk was taken from a “Dharma Salon” held right after Thanksgiving in Los Angeles, California. For complete audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org and http://www.lamamarut.org | 5/12/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Death Awareness Meditation | In this podcast, Lama Marut guides a group of students through the main parts of a death awareness meditation, designed to motivate us and straighten out our priorities in life. This meditation ended a class taught in Tucson, Arizona, on February 1, 2007, as part of a Diamond Mountain University course on “Cultivating Joyful Effort.” For complete audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org and http://www.lamamarut.org | 5/5/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Your Supernormal Powers, Part 2 | Lama Marut continues a discussion of our supernormal powers or siddhis with an examination of what we are actually doing with the miraculous technological gadgetry we’ve accumulated here in “designer samsara.” These powers can be major distractions to our spiritual practice if we don’t use them for what they are really meant for – to get enlightened in this lifetime. This podcast was taken from a Tibetan Heart Yoga Teacher Training course given at the Three Jewels Bookstore in New York City on March 14, 2007. For complete audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org and http://www.lamamarut.org | 4/29/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Your Supernormal Powers, Part 1 | In the traditional texts on yoga it is often said that we will develop certain supernormal powers or siddhis at the advanced levels of our practice. Many, if not most, of these powers we now have. . . and think are just normal and totally take for granted. This podcast was taken from a Tibetan Heart Yoga Teacher Training course given at the Three Jewels Bookstore in New York City on March 14, 2007. For complete audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org and http://www.lamamarut.org | 4/23/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Your Amazing Life, Part 2 | Lama Marut continues his two part presentation of “leisure and fortune” – recognizing the fact that our lives are complete miracles and the necessity of not squandering such an amazing opportunity to make serious spiritual progress. This podcast was taken from a Tibetan Heart Yoga Teacher Training course given at the Three Jewels Bookstore in New York City on March 14, 2007. For complete audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org and http://www.lamamarut.org | 4/18/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Your Amazing Life, Part 1 | The lam rim or “steps on the path” starts with what is called “leisure and fortune.” In this podcast, Lama Marut presents the first of a two part discussion of what an amazing opportunity this kind of life affords us . . . if we take advantage of it. This podcast was taken from a Tibetan Heart Yoga Teacher Training course given at the Three Jewels Bookstore in New York City on March 14, 2007. For complete audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org and http://www.lamamarut.org | 4/8/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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The Greatest Sin | In the open teachings of Buddhism, the biggest mistake is to see things as if they had “self-existence” and were not related to your own karma. In the secret teachings, the biggest error is seeing your life as ordinary instead of paying attention to the miracles that are all around us. Just paying attention to the facts of our lives, being mindful and living “here and now,” will help us live a happier life. This podcast was taken from a Tibetan Heart Yoga Teacher Training course given at the Three Jewels Bookstore in New York City on March 14, 2007. For complete audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org and http://www.lamamarut.org | 3/31/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Preliminaries to Meditation | Before meditating, like before yoga, running, or any other physical exercise, it is important to first warm up and “stretch.” In this podcast, the basic preliminaries that a good meditator should learn and go through at the start of one’s daily meditation are reviewed. This podcast was taken from a set of teachings given in Rockport, Massachusetts, on Dec. 19, 2006. For complete audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org and http://www.lamamarut.org | 3/25/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Steps on the Path | The whole Buddhist path is encapsulated in what is called the “lam rim” or “steps on the path.” Here Lama Marut reviews in a concise manner the entire lam rim, beginning with finding a teacher and appreciating this precious life, and then going through the steps shared with those of “lesser, medium, and greater scopes.” This podcast is taken from a teaching given at Rockport, Massachusetts, on Dec. 22, 2006. For complete audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org and http://www.lamamarut.org | 3/18/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Karma: Why Things Happen | The basis for any spiritual life is morality. But why should we be kind to others? In this podcast, Lama Marut goes through the three possible worldviews for explaining why things happen, and points out that the only one that can undergird an ethical life is karma and causality. This podcast is taken from a teaching given at Rockport, Massachusetts, on Dec. 22, 2006. For complete audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org and http://www.lamamarut.org | 3/11/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Popups in Horrorland | Lama Marut discusses the real purpose of yoga – to obtain a state of happiness that endures all day long, regardless of the “pop-ups in horrorland.” Our unhappiness comes from not understanding where the unwanted things of life really come from. Lama Marut asserts, “There’s never a reason to be anything other than happy.” This teaching was part of a longer talk given at the Tibetan Heart Yoga Teacher Training course in Tucson, Arizona, in April, 2006. For complete audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org and http://www.lamamarut.org | 3/4/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Four Steps to Happiness, Part 2 | Lama Marut continues his discussion of the four steps for thinking and acting differently in relation to money and things, professions, relationships, entertainment and leisure, and physical health and beauty. We first learn how to change our thinking and actions about these things. Then we get unaddicted to these things and re-identify ourselves as spiritual practitioners. Finally, having done these things we may find it useful – for our spiritual practice – to put the karmic causes into effect for attaining more money, better relationships, etc. This podcast is taken from a longer teaching given as part of the Tibetan Heart Yoga Teacher Training course, April, 2006, in Tucson, Arizona. For complete audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org and http://www.lamamarut.org | 2/22/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Four Steps to Happiness, Part 1 | In an earlier podcast, Lama Marut discussed why our money and things, professions, relationships, entertainment and leisure, and physical health and beauty cannot in and of themselves make us happy. Here he begins a discussion of the four steps for thinking and acting differently in relation to these things. We start by gaining some wisdom about their nature and learning how to change our thinking and actions about the five things we think will make us happy. This podcast is taken from a longer teaching given as part of the Tibetan Heart Yoga Teacher Training course, April, 2006, in Tucson, Arizona. For complete audio teachings, please go to: http://www.aci-la.org and http://www.lamamarut.org | 2/18/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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What Won't Make Us Happy | What kinds of things do we think are going to make us happy in life? Will money and things, success in a career, relationships, entertainment and leisure activities, or physical health and beauty in and of themselves make us happy? And, on the other hand, will simply giving up these things make us happy? Find out in this podcast! | 2/10/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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True Happiness | The real purpose of any authentic spiritual practice, and the real purpose of our lives, is to be happy so you can really help others. In this podcast, Lama Marut discusses what true happiness is, why we’re not happy, and how to achieve contentment and happiness in your life. | 2/3/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Part Two: A Daily Spiritual Practice | Enjoy the conclusion of Lama Marut’s entertaining teaching on the essential components of any spiritual practice. From the time we wake up to the time we go to sleep these elements help lay a strong foundation for a deeper happiness in our lives. | 1/28/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Part One: A Daily Spiritual Practice | The path to true happiness consists of small, positive changes we make to our daily lives. Lama Marut offers insight and inspiration that we can use today to transform our everyday lives into joyful ones. | 1/14/07 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Customer Reviews
Comprehensive and funny!
These podcasts move through many different topics with enough depth to understand them meaningfully, but not too weighted in jargon at the same time - and Lama Marut is funny! His explanations of emptniess have really helped me put this 'worldview' to work in my everyday life, and the general happiness teachings are always a perfect reminder and inspiration of what true happiness is and how to achieve it. Thank You so much.
Tough gentle truth, VERY HELPFUL
These are simple great nuggets of advise, full of ancient Eastern wisdom adapted to our modern western era. Very Practical yet brutaly honist. Specially the illusory nature of time & space and who we are really!?! It is a blessing to be shared. Tell a friend. Chanti, Chanti
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I just want to thank you for what you do! I listen to your podcast as soon as they come out! I listen to the podcast during my breaks at work! Usually I am all stressed out but when I play your podcast all the stress melts away! I am not sure if it is what that topic is! Maybe it is just your voice or the way you make your podcast fun to listen to! All I know is that you really do reach me to the point of relaxation! So far my favorite teaching is "Seven Steps to Achieving Ultimate Compassion" I really thought about the part you said about every one is your mother! Everyone truly is and they should be respected as that! Thanks! I look forward to more podcast!
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