Good Karma Annual Retreat
Ongoing teachings on Good Karma given during annual Memorial Day weekend retreats.
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Good Karma
A commentary that plants a classic Buddhist text, the Wheel of Sharp Weapons, squarely into life in the modern world. Good Karma elucidates how we can eliminate the causes of anxiety, fear, and depression and create the causes of joy.
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Venerable Thubten Chodron Good Karma: Helpful and unhelpful friends
Responses to questions and commentary on verses about spiritual friends.
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Good Karma: The importance of motivation
The mental nonvirtues of coveting, malice, and wrong views.
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Good Karma: Karmic consequences of the ten nonvirtues
Why we should avoid engaging in killing, stealing, and sexual misconduct.
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Good Karma: Serving others instead of exploiting them
How to overcome miserliness and being mistreated by others.
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Good Karma: The four characteristics of karma
More about the characteristics of karma and how to overcome mental suffering.
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Good Karma: A short overview of the Buddhist worldview
Introduction to the Buddhist worldview and "The Wheel of Sharp Weapons."
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Good Karma: Offering our help to all beings
Doing the taking and giving meditation to purify past actions.
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Good Karma: Dealing with betrayal of trust
How to work with attachment and respond to harm from others with compassion.
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Good Karma: We are not inherently selfish
Purifying the harm we have done to others directly and to ourselves indirectly.
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Good Karma: Embracing hardship for others’ sake
Transforming hardship into the path to awakening.
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Good Karma: Solving problems at their root
How we can get the specific results that we want by creating the right causes.
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Good Karma: A bodhisattva’s courage
The heroism of bodhisattvas and how to gradually train the mind to look at the…
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