Taking Advantage of Your Miraculous Life |
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We are living miraculous lives, but what are we doing with them? We are mostly taking them for granted instead of taking full advantage of our amazing opportunity. We have are living the lives that... |
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A Lama Marut Video Podcast
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douglas smith
 
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Show's Description
All authentic spiritual traditions teach us the true means to achieve real and lasting happiness - the development of compassion, kindness, love, wisdom, gratitude, forgiveness, trust, and so on. In t
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The Religious Teacher, Part 2 |
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Can we prove that our spiritual teacher or guru is an Enlightened Being? Do we really know for sure, somehow, that our teacher is not a Buddha? Our preconceptions about what an Enlightened Being sho... |
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True Happiness and the Fact of Suffering |
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The spiritual path is meant to lead to “freedom,” liberation from suffering and unhappiness. But until we are enlightened, we don’t really know what true happiness would feel like. We are ent... |
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Why Consumer Capitalism Won’t Make You Happy |
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The purpose of a spiritual path is to lead the practitioner to happiness. The authentic and time-tested traditions work " they deliver the goods. But the false religion of consumer capitalism cann... |
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The Religious Teacher, Part 1 |
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God can be understood to be a transcendent figure, outside of us, or as very close, right here in our lives. In the Bhagavad Gita, God is presented as Krishna, the guru and close friend of His devote... |
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The Laws of Karma, Part 2 |
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Lama Marut discusses the three worldviews we use to explain how and why things happen to us in life. #1. Things happen for no reason. #2. God is micromanaging the Universe. Or #3. Everything is in the... |
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The Laws of Karma, Part 1 |
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The Bhagavad Gita states, “No action in this world goes for naught, or brings about a contrary result.” Actions of selflessness and altruism toward others can bring nothing other than goodness to... |
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Obstacles to Working Hard for Happiness, Part 2 |
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Lama Marut continues the delineation of the main obstacles to working hard, happily, for real and lasting happiness. “Attraction to things that are bad” or bad habits means, among other things, w... |
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The Gita’s Three Yogas and Buddhism |
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The Bhagavad Gita is linked to the early texts of the Indian Mahayana Buddhist traditions by its emphasis on the three “yogas” of devotion, compassionate action, wisdom, and devotion or bhakti. In... |
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The Three Spiritual Practices |
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In the Bhagavad Gita, one of the classic texts in the history of religions, Lord Krishna teaches us three different but interrelated spiritual practices: the discipline of one’s actions (karma yoga)... |
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