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 Practical ethics from Nagarjuna
Advice and discussion about governing and leadership, Buddhist activism, and compassion towards prisoners.
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Dependent designation
Teaching on how everything depends on thought, and an explanation of the analogy of the…
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Dependent arising and emptiness
How to see ourselves as an illusion instead of buying into our usual distorted view…
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Questioning appearances
Teaching on extending the meditation on emptiness to things we own, and on the union…
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Existence of the “I”
Reviewing the four-point analysis of the emptiness of the self and teaching on coarse and…
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Kenneth Mondal Cultivating equanimity
How does one deal with one's own judgmental mind? A student examines the benefits of…
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The wheel of karmic cause and effect
The third of three talks given in Russia on verses from the poem, "The Wheel…
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The basic principles of karma
The second of three talks given in Russia on verses from the poem, "The Wheel…
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Bringing an awareness of karma into our lives
The first of three talks given in Russia on verses from the poem, "The Wheel…
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Creating the causes for good results
Examining our behaviors and attitudes in pursuing happiness in order to abandon mistaken ways and…
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Identifying the real source of our difficulties
Seeing self-centeredness and self-grasping as the source of our problems and counteracting them to find…
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