Wheel of Sharp Weapons
Commentaries on The Wheel of Sharp Weapons by Dharmaraksita, a poem on the karmic effects of our past actions.
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Good Karma Annual Retreat
Ongoing teachings on Good Karma given during annual Memorial Day weekend retreats.
VIEW CATEGORYGood Karma Short Retreats
Short weekend retreats based on Good Karma, drawing on verses from The Wheel of Sharp Weapons.
VIEW CATEGORYWheel of Sharp Weapons 2004-06
Extensive commentary on The Wheel of Sharp Weapons by Dharmarakshita.
VIEW CATEGORYWheel of Sharp Weapons Retreat 2004
Shorter commentary on The Wheel of Sharp Weapons by Dharmarakshita.
VIEW CATEGORYWheel of Sharp Weapons Retreat 2014
A three-day retreat on The Wheel of Sharp Weapons at Chenrezig Institute in Australia.
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Wheel of Sharp Weapons Retreat (Missoula 2013)
Teachings on the Wheel of Sharp Weapons by Dharmarakshita given at Osel Shen Phen Ling in Missoula in 2013.
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Good Karma: Helpful and unhelpful friends
Responses to questions and commentary on verses about spiritual friends.
View PostGood Karma: The importance of motivation
The mental nonvirtues of coveting, malice, and wrong views.
View PostGood Karma: Karmic consequences of the ten nonvirtues
Why we should avoid engaging in killing, stealing, and sexual misconduct.
View PostGood Karma: Serving others instead of exploiting them
How to overcome miserliness and being mistreated by others.
View PostGood Karma: The four characteristics of karma
More about the characteristics of karma and how to overcome mental suffering.
View PostGood Karma: A short overview of the Buddhist worldview
Introduction to the Buddhist worldview and "The Wheel of Sharp Weapons."
View PostGood Karma: Offering our help to all beings
Doing the taking and giving meditation to purify past actions.
View PostGood Karma: Dealing with betrayal of trust
How to work with attachment and respond to harm from others with compassion.
View PostGood Karma: We are not inherently selfish
Purifying the harm we have done to others directly and to ourselves indirectly.
View PostGood Karma: Embracing hardship for others’ sake
Transforming hardship into the path to awakening.
View PostGood Karma: Solving problems at their root
How we can get the specific results that we want by creating the right causes.
View PostGood Karma: A bodhisattva’s courage
The heroism of bodhisattvas and how to gradually train the mind to look at the…
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