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 Karma and its effects
Starting Chapter 10, "Karma and its Effects", describing the three principles of cause and effect.
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Offering natural substances
Beginning Chapter 2 "Purifying Negativities" with verses on making offerings to buddhas and bodhisattvas with…
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The benefits of bodhicitta
Meditating on equanimity and explaining the benefits of bodhicitta, covering various analogies that explain these…
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Understanding our situation in samsara
Speaking on the importance of seeing sentient beings as precious and teaching on ten nonvirtues…
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The mind is the source of happiness
Teaching on how our actions determine our present and future experience and explaining how the…
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Only the Dharma helps at death
Completing the section “Only Dharma helps at the time of death” in Chapter 9, explaining…
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Freedoms and fortunes of a precious human life
Covering verses 1.1c-1.4 on Shantideva’s purpose for writing the text and the eight freedoms and…
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Nine-point death meditation
Teaching nine-point death meditation, from the section “Learning from Our Own Mortality” in Chapter 9.
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Looking beyond this life
Finishing Chapter 8 and beginning Chapter 9 "Looking Beyond This Life", covering sections "Gross and…
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Equanimity and the kindness of others
Leading a meditation on equanimity and teaching on the the seven-point cause and effect method…
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Disadvantages of the eight worldly concerns
Continuing teaching from Chapter 8 “The Essence of a Meaningful Life” covering eight worldly concerns…
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The causes of samsara
Speaking on the benefits of meditation on impermanence and teaching on six root afflictions that…
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