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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Learning from illness
A Dharma student contemplates his experiences while in the hospital.
View PostThe robbers of wrong views
How wrong views about the law of karma and the nature of reality create create…
View PostPractical ethics and leadership
The first of two talks based on Nagarjuna's Precious Garland of Advice for a King…
View PostPractical ethics from Nagarjuna
Advice and discussion about governing and leadership, Buddhist activism, and compassion towards prisoners.
View PostDependent designation
Teaching on how everything depends on thought, and an explanation of the analogy of the…
View PostDependent arising and emptiness
How to see ourselves as an illusion instead of buying into our usual distorted view…
View PostQuestioning appearances
Teaching on extending the meditation on emptiness to things we own, and on the union…
View PostExistence of the “I”
Reviewing the four-point analysis of the emptiness of the self and teaching on coarse and…
View PostCultivating equanimity
How does one deal with one's own judgmental mind? A student examines the benefits of…
View PostThe wheel of karmic cause and effect
The third of three talks given in Russia on verses from the poem, "The Wheel…
View PostThe basic principles of karma
The second of three talks given in Russia on verses from the poem, "The Wheel…
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