karma
Teachings related to the law of karma and its effects, or how intentional actions of body, speech, and mind affect our circumstances and experiences. The law of karma and its effects explains how present experience is the product of past actions and how present actions affect future experience. Posts include teachings on the types and characteristics of karma and how to use an understanding of karma in daily life.
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Venerable Thubten Chodron Good Karma: Karmic consequences of taking advantage ...
Examining situations when we are deceived by others and when our efforts are not successful.
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Good Karma: Pernicious thoughts
Questions about karma plus verses outlining obstacles to our spiritual practice and peace of mind.
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Good Karma: The importance of making offerings
How making offerings benefits us and how self-grasping ignorance causes afflictions to arise.
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Good Karma: Karma and the mind’s namtok
Our distorted ways of thinking and how this lead to the creation of negative karma.
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Good Karma: Overcoming spiritual obstacles
How contemplating impermanence and the defects of cyclic existence helps to transform our minds.
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Good Karma: The four characteristics of karma
How to understand karma in the context of cyclic existence and multiple lifetimes.
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Venerable Thubten Damcho Higher training in ethical conduct
Questioning why we engage in ethical conduct, and reviewing the first three sections in Chapter…
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Renunciation, bodhicitta and the wisdom realizing em...
How renunciation, bodhicitta and the wisdom realizing emptiness lead to true happiness.
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Venerable Sangye Khadro Karma and purifying the mind
An introduction to purification practice and different activities we can do to create merit.
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The five powers in life and death
Changing adverse circumstances into the path and elucidating a lifetime’s practice.
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The four characteristics of karma
How purification is possible and an introduction to the four characteristics of karma.
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Things depend on other things
Interview on how the teachings on interdependence apply to daily life.
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