Completing teaching from Chapter 10, explaining the last two transcendental factors and covering the types of results from polluted and unpolluted 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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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.
Review of true duhkha
Reviewing Chapter 2, covering the sections related to true duhkha covering realms of existence and three types of duhkha.
The “Ye Dharma Dharani”
Starting teaching from Chapter 10, explaining “dharani” to describe how they cover different aspects of the four noble truths and four self-confidences.
Benefits of meditating on the the 12 links
Commencing the teaching from Chapter 9 and describing the benefits of meditating on the 12 links and how it clears away wrong views
Ultimate nature of the twelve links
Continuing the teachings from Chapter 8, covering the section “The Ultimate Nature of the Twelve Links”
Contemplating karma and its effects
Contemplating karmic cause and effect to strengthen the aspiration for virtue.
Examples of how we cycle
Teaching from Chapter 8, describing the implicit explanation of the 12 links and covering the explanation from Pali.
Explicit and implicit presentations of the 12 links
Continuing the teachings from Chapter 8, explaining the explicit and implicit descriptions of the 12 links based on Rice Seedling sutra.
Aging or death
Completing Chapter 7, describing the twelfth-link, aging or death and starting Chapter 8 “Dependent Origination: Cycling in Samsara”.
Birth
Continuing teaching from Chapter 7, describing the importance of imagining our own death and explaining the eleventh-link, birth
