What’s your biggest problem? There’s always an antidote. Lama Marut talks about some of the cures for the main mental afflictions in this short 5 minute segment from teachings in Hawaii, June, 2011. Download the MP3 File Now > The Enemy Within Read More
Category: Teaser Post Category
Lama Marut’s Events, Teachings, Retreats
The Facts of Life
Suffering is a fact of life, and we should want an alternative. Another excerpt, 8 ½ minutes long, from the retreat in Hawaii, June, 2011. Download this MP3 file > The Facts of Life Read More
Getting Your Motivation Straight
In this 7 minute excerpt from a retreat teaching in Hawaii (June, 2011), Lama Marut talks about the proper motivation for pursuing the spiritual life. Download the MP3 and enjoy! GettingYourMotivationStraight Read More
Is Enlightenment Sudden or Gradual?
Question from Student: Some people got enlightened spontaneously, like a miracle. What do you think of that? Answer from Lama Marut: Well, wish it would happen – to me! As some of you know, there was a big debate historically in Chinese Zen, in Chan Buddhism, on whether enlightenment is sudden or gradual. And that Read More
Meditation in Context: Between Ethics and Wisdom
Part Three of Lama Marut’s talk at the Australian Meditation Conference, in which he delineates the place and purpose of meditation in Tibetan Buddhism. > Download Part 3, MP3 Read More
Why and On What Should We Meditate?
Part 2 of Lama Marut’s talk at the annual Australian Meditation Conference, held in Melbourne in October of 2011. > Download Part 2, MP3 Read More
What’s the Purpose of Meditation?
The skill of meditation is not virtuous in and of itself. It is morally neutral, and its value depends on the context in which it is located. Lama Marut speaks at the Australian Meditation Conference, 2011, on the “how,†“why,†and “on what†of meditation. This is the first of three parts to the talk, Read More
Getting the “Oomph” Behind the “Try”
Joyful Effort… We all are desirous of the rewards of a spiritual life – a deep sense of  well-being and contentment; pleasant and meaningful interactions with others; the end of alienation and aloneness, replaced by the feeling of interconnectedness and “at oneness” with the things and beings around us; and the full realization of our true Read More
Is There Proof for Karma?
Does Karma really show up in our lives and whats the proof? Check out another Q & A session from a recent teaching where the “proof” of Karma is explored. > Is There Proof for Karma (Download MP3 File) Read More
The Practice of Contentment
Among the many benefits of going on a solitary retreat is the opportunity to practice contentment. We do, of course, have the option to work on our endemic dissatisfaction at any time. But in retreat we put ourselves in a situation that forcefully demands it. Retreat, one might say, is an exercise in compulsory contentment Read More