Karma and its effects

Karma and its effects

Part of a series of talks given during the annual Young Adult Week program at Sravasti Abbey in 2012.

  • How to repay kindness for long-term benefits by using your wisdom
  • Our daily distractions can cause bad choices, which creates bad karma
  • Thinking about the consequences of our actions and our intentions; creating causes for happiness
  • The need to observe our minds, which create karma all day long

Venerable Thubten Chodron

Venerable Chodron emphasizes the practical application of Buddha’s teachings in our daily lives and is especially skilled at explaining them in ways easily understood and practiced by Westerners. She is well known for her warm, humorous, and lucid teachings. She was ordained as a Buddhist nun in 1977 by Kyabje Ling Rinpoche in Dharamsala, India, and in 1986 she received bhikshuni (full) ordination in Taiwan. Read her full bio.