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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Chapter 12: Verses 278-280
Teachings on how to prove the Buddha’s omniscience based on reasoning and experience.
View PostChapters 11-12: Verses 275-277
Teachings on refuting the wrong views start with explaining the qualities of a proper Dharma…
View PostChapter 11: Verses 259-265
Refutation of lower Buddhist schools’ view of permanent future phenomena.
View PostChapter 11: Verses 251-258
Does time exist substantially? How do past, present, and future really exist?
View PostChapter 10: Verses 247-250
Does selflessness mean nonexistence? How to avoid the two extremes of nihilism and eternalism and…
View PostChapter 9: Verses 202-211
Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe continues teaching on refuting permanent personal self, uncompounded space, and permanent time.
View PostOverview and Chapter 9: Verse 201
Geshe Thabkhe gives an overview of the path and begins teaching on general refutation of…
View PostReimagining Buddhist ethics in the world
Venerable Thubten Jampa shares the many ways that Westerners can practice ethics in their daily…
View PostThe practice of generosity
Why Buddhist monastics do not work for a living and give the Dharma freely.
View PostTaking rebirth from the intermediate state
The transition from the intermediate state to a new rebirth based on explanations in the…
View PostLiving like we believe in karma
A meditation on integrating the teachings on karma into our daily lives.
View PostDeath and the intermediate state
Factors affecting our death, and the importance of the state of mind at death. What…
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