Good Karma: Karma and the mind’s namtok
Good Karma 24
Venerable Thubten Chodron 
Good Karma Annual Retreat 
May 24, 2025 Part of a series of talks given during the annual Memorial Day weekend retreat based on the book Good Karma: How to Create the Causes of Happiness and Avoid the Causes of Suffering, a commentary on "The Wheel of Sharp Weapons" by Indian sage Dharmarakshita.
- Questions and answers:
- Karma and long life
- Developing antipathy to cyclic existence
- Verse 33: Our imagination arising as veils and spirits
- Four distorted conceptions
- Verse 34: Lost and wandering like a powerless person
- Verse 35: Calamities such as frost and hailstorms
- Verse 36: Greedy but bereft of wealth
- Reflecting on the karmic causes of our problems and doing the opposite
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.
