Karma and your life
Teaching given at the Mahabodhi Society of USA in Sunnyvale, California.
- Creating future experience by mindfully cultivating positive motivations
- The disadvantages of our self-centered motivations
- The karmic results of our actions
- Investigating our motivations in daily life activities
- Factors that strengthen/weaken karma
- The conditions that facilitate the ripening of karma
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.