Continuing Chapter 11, explaining many factors that affect the result of karma and different perspectives on what karma ripens at the time of death.
Karma that ripens at death
Venerable Thubten Chodron teaches on the second volume of The Library of Wisdom and Compassion co-authored with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, on Buddhist theories of perception and the foundation stages of the Buddhist path.
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Venerable Thubten Chodron teaches on the second volume of The Library of Wisdom and Compassion co-authored with His Holiness the Dalai Lama, on Buddhist theories of perception and the foundation stages of the Buddhist path.
The results of karma
Continuing the teaching on the results of karma and explaining the verses from Precious Garland.
Three kinds of karmic result
Beginning Chapter 11 “Results of Karma” and explaining the three results of karma.
Karma and current ethical issues continued
Continuing the discussion of current ethical issues and karma, covering topics such as assisted suicide, suicide, death penalty, vegetarianism and sexual ethics
Karma and current ethical issues
Explaining karma and current ethical issues covering genetic engineering, stem cell research, cloning, birth control, and abortion.
Discerning virtuous from nonvirtuous actions
Completing “The Weight of Karma”, teaching “Discerning Virtuous from Nonvirtuous Actions”, and starting “Karma and Current Ethical Issues”
Constructive actions and the weight of karma
Covering the section “Constructive Actions” and beginning the section “The Weight of Karma”.
Intention, karmic paths and afflictions
Describing how the ten non-virtues can be distinguished from each other in terms of being intention, karmic paths, and/or afflictions.
Three non-virtues of mind
Explaining the ten non-virtues, covering idle talk, and the three non-virtues of mind: covetousness, malice and wrong views.
Verbal non-virtues
Continuing the explanation of ten non-virtues, covering the third physical non-virtue and the first three verbal non-virtues.