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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Aryadeva's 400 Stanzas

Chapter 11: Verses 251-258

Does time exist substantially? How do past, present, and future really exist?

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Aryadeva's 400 Stanzas

Chapter 10: Verses 247-250

Does selflessness mean nonexistence? How to avoid the two extremes of nihilism and eternalism and…

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Aryadeva's 400 Stanzas

Chapter 9: Verses 202-211

Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe continues teaching on refuting permanent personal self, uncompounded space, and permanent time.

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Aryadeva's 400 Stanzas

Overview and Chapter 9: Verse 201

Geshe Thabkhe gives an overview of the path and begins teaching on general refutation of…

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Explore Monastic Life

Reimagining Buddhist ethics in the world

Venerable Thubten Jampa shares the many ways that Westerners can practice ethics in their daily…

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Lay guests read the food offering prayer as monastics listen standing behind an alms bowl with food.
Monastic Life

The practice of generosity

Why Buddhist monastics do not work for a living and give the Dharma freely.

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Gomchen Lamrim

Taking rebirth from the intermediate state

The transition from the intermediate state to a new rebirth based on explanations in the…

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Guided Meditations

Living like we believe in karma

A meditation on integrating the teachings on karma into our daily lives.

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Gomchen Lamrim

Death and the intermediate state

Factors affecting our death, and the importance of the state of mind at death. What…

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Graphic yellow and red image of the word karma.
Wheel of Sharp Weapons

Karma: The boomerang effect

Learning about karma can help us to create the causes for happiness and avoid the…

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Graphic yellow and red image of the word karma.
Wheel of Sharp Weapons

How karma influences our lives

The teachings on karma are very practical. When we see that our experience is a…

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Gomchen Lamrim

Afflictions and the accumulation of karma

The disadvantages of the afflictions and how you accumulate karma through the afflictions. When you…

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