Your Mind Is Projecting Everything

Gen Gomlam explores Buddha’s transformative teaching that our mind and our world are intimately connected. Discover how purifying our thoughts, reducing delusions and cultivating love and compassion can change our personal experience of life. Through the analogy of a dream, she explains why developing wisdom offers a hopeful path towards lasting happiness and world peace.

Why do our problems seem never-ending, no matter how hard we try to solve them? In this inspiring teaching, Gen-la Dekyong explains the difference between outer problems and inner problems, revealing how our unhappiness comes from our own mind rather than external circumstances. Discover how Buddha’s wisdom can help us understand the real source of our problems and find a path to lasting inner peace.

Kadam Marie-Claude Martel explores why frustration arises when life doesn’t go according to plan. Using relatable examples from everyday life, she reveals how the tension between what we want and what actually happens creates unhappiness. Discover how changing our perspective can help us stop blaming external circumstances and begin solving our problems from within. Further reading in the following book: How to Solve Our Human Problems

Kadam Adam Star explains what it means to become a bodhisattva, describing this as becoming a friend of the world. He explores our potential to develop love, compassion, and wisdom, and shows how we can begin living this way now rather than waiting to become perfect. Further reading in the following book: The New Eight Steps to Happiness

Kadam Bridget explains how learning to cherish others can transform difficult relationships and protect our own peace of mind. She explores why jealousy, anger, and irritation arise when we feel disconnected from others, and offers a practical way of seeing people more positively by recognizing the kindness and benefits we receive from them. Further reading in the following book: How to Transform Your Life

Gen Devi follows what happens once the fantasy fades — the honeymoon ends, we feel the person has changed, and we blame them for no longer matching our projection. She shows the way out: removing attachment rather than abandoning the people we love, taking responsibility for our own mind, and switching our focus from ourselves to others as the true source of lasting happiness. Further reading in the following book: How to Transform Your Life

Gen-la Khyenrab explores the transformative power of our Buddha potential and explains how understanding the law of karma allows us to take full control of our lives. By recognizing and overcoming mental delusions like anger and attachment, we can intentionally cultivate positive mindsets and truly become the architects of our own destiny.

Gen Demo explores why letting go of anger is essential for a happy life, showing how anger can become a deeply ingrained habit and how it affects the people around us. Through relatable examples, she reveals that although we cannot control difficult situations, we can choose how we respond to them.

Gen Thekchen introduces emptiness with disarming humor — looking at his audience and showing how the same people can appear as kind or horrible depending entirely on the mind’s projection. He reveals that spiritual practice is simply about reducing exaggeration and bringing our mind closer to reality. Further reading in the following book: The New Eight Steps to Happiness

Gen Lamchen explains why thinking harder about a problem so often makes it worse. She shows how attention and mindfulness — the very mental habits that trap us in worry — can be turned around, then offers Shantideva’s simple framework for containing runaway thoughts in just five minutes a day. Further reading in the following books: How to Solve Our Human Problems Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life