Gen-la Khyenrab: Recent Episodes
Kadampa Buddhism
In this podcast, taken from the Spring Festival 2026, Gen-la Khyenrab guides us to develop authentic compassion by encouraging us to begin with those that we already love.
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In this podcast, taken from the Spring Festival 2026, Gen-la Khyenrab guides us to recognise our self-cherishing mind as our true inner enemy, showing how this delusion is the root cause of all our suffering and problems.
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In this podcast, taken from the Spring Festival 2026, Gen-la Khyenrab leads us to make our own personal decision to cherish others by showing how this will benefit ourself and others.
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Gen-la Khyenrab explains the importance of prayers in preparing our mind to properly listen to, understand and apply Buddha’s teachings in daily life.
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What makes the three higher trainings ‘higher’? – The motivation of renunciation. The teachings on the three higher trainings show us how to liberate ourself from all the sufferings of samsara The first higher training is moral discipline. And Gen-la Khyenrab explains this practice in some detail in this podcast.
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Teaching from Oral Instructions of Mahamudra, Gen-la introduces the basic Buddhist idea that happiness doesn’t come from material development but rather through inner contemplation on virtue. Meditation practice is simply a method to familiarize our mind with virtue, the causes of happiness and the natural result will be a world that is at peace.
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The self-cherishing mind is the root of all of our problems and the source of all of our suffering, when we free our mind from self-cherishing we will attain the supreme happiness of Enlightenment.
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The object that is forsaken by the mind of renunciation is ‘samsara’ but what exactly is samsara?
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When we connect with Enlightened beings we receive blessings, if we receive blessings then we will be happy.
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Gen-la reads from Venerable Geshe-la’s profound explanation of Emptiness to help understand the union of the two truths.
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Gen-la explains how to engage in qualified meditation in order to bring about the authentic change of mind that we need to free us from our delusions and problems.
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Through investigating for ourselves we discover the truth of emptiness, we become inner scientists.
Gen-la explains how to develop affectionate love which will protect us from suffering and is the basis for developing the supreme good heart of Bodhichitta.
If we do meditation on death everyday we will naturally put energy into practising Dharma purely and sincerely.
Gen-la Khyenrab explains subtle impermanence. In understanding the essence of Buddha's teachings on impermanence and emptiness, we can find real freedom from physical suffering and mental pain, and the path to everlasting happiness.
Gen-la discusses the first 3 dangers of not meditating on death and not developing mindfulness of death. The first is not remembering dharma and death. The second one is if we do remember dharma but don't remember our death we won't put dharma into practice. So even if we remember dharma, and put it into practice, if we don't have mindfulness of death our dharma practice will be impure. Gen-la discusses what pure dharma is. Renouncing attachment to this life.
More information on this subject can be found in the books Modern Buddhism and How to Transform Your Life.
Patience is a happy mind. Patience is happy to accept whatever is happening. Patience has abandoned the wish to change the situation.
Anger destroys your own ability to fulfil your own wishes, and it destroys our relationship. Anger is a bad habit, don't blame ourself, but to identify that is the trouble coming from, because we allow this habit to carry on.
Anger starts when an object appeared to be unattractive or unpleasant, then we exaggerate and focus on the bad quality of the object, consider the object to be undesirable, and develop the wish to harm.
Letters, words, phrases are the basis of communication, but actual scripture is wind. The real nature of scripture is inner wind.
Bringing rebirth into the path of the Emanation Body is a teaching on the ultimate truth - emptiness. Drops are called 'bodhichitta' because they give rise to bodhichitta. Drops are not actual bodhichitta - the effect is given the name of the cause.
The mind creates because of emptiness. Emptiness is like a blank canvas. Grasping at inherent existence is why our Tantric practice is not working. Tantric mantra recitation is from within emptiness.
Whereas the attainment of Enlightenment allows us to bestow mental peace upon each and every living being every day.
This story from the scriptures is about how this world developed from emptiness and wind. It is mere name.