Kindness and karma

Kindness and karma

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

  • How do we repay the kindness of our parents, teachers and others who benefited us
  • By practicing Dharma, we can benefit others in better ways—long-lasting benefits
  • Planting seeds, we create causes and the results come—planting good seeds means good results
  • What we experience now is a result of our previous actions

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.