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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Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe Hearing, thinking, and meditating
Teaching on a text that was written in response to a debate in Tibet in…
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Developing a relationship with Vajrasattva
Vajrasattva practice can help us to counteract our ignorance and afflictions.
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Formative action
Continuing teaching from Chapter 7, explaining formative action, the second of the twelve links of…
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Biting the hook of anger
Commenting on Ver. 85-90, Chapter 6, demonstrating how using daily events can reveal the faults…
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The root of samsara
Continuing teaching from Chapter 7, explaining how different tenet systems describe what is the root…
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Attachment and anger
Commenting on Verses 66-74 of Chapter 6, discussing the relationship between attachment and anger and…
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Counteracting anger
Covering Verses 62-66, leading a discussion on working with the self-centered thought and describing more…
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Applying karma to our lives
Continuing teaching from Chapter 7, applying karma to the recent trial and describing the Rice…
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Debating with anger
Beginning with a review of Verses 42-50, and then leading us in a debate between…
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Dependent arising
Completing Chapter 6, covering karma and instinctual behavior and commencing Chapter 7, describing the wheel…
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