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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Questions on understanding Buddhist teachings
Exploring challenging topics through the lens of Buddhist thought.
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Five questions on karma and rebirth
Exploring how Buddhist teachings inform our choices and practice.
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Rebirth: What matters and why it counts
Understanding rebirth through karma, impermanence, and mental continuity.
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Overcome adversity and calm your mind
Exploring Dharma practice, anger, and ways to overcome the self-centered mind.
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Revolving in cyclic existence
Exploring dependent arising, karma, rebirth, and freedom from cyclic existence.
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Working with Anger
How we can learn to recognize and take responsibility for anger when it arises.
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Shared and specific characteristics
Covering a general description of the four establishments of mindfulness, and also the shared and…
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Karma, the universe, and evolution
Exploring causality, cooperative conditions, and how karma influences our present environment.
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Overcoming our rules of the universe
Examining our "rules of the universe" and how we create the causes for suffering.
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