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 Verse 18: The sharp weapon that slices hearts
Our personal weapons of mass destruction -- harsh speech and divisive speech that destroys relationships.
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Verse 17: The liar
Lying creates suffering for others and ourselves, and creates the opposite effect of what we…
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Verse 16: The load of contaminated aggregates
Taking rebirth with polluted aggregates is a load that weighs us down and only causes…
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Working with criticism
How to see those who criticize us and challenge us as teachers who point out…
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Verses 14-15: The trickster and the exhibitionist
Failing to put the teachings into practice is, in essence, stealing from those who support…
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Verse 10: Misleading friends
Misleading friends appear kind but encourage us away from our ethics and principles and can…
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Generating wealth
The antidote to feeling poor is generosity, might it be in material or in immaterial…
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Verse 7: The enemies of happiness and prosperity
Afflictive emotions like miserliness and anger only bring us misery, though we think they'll bring…
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Heather Mack Duchscher Unloading the garbage mind
A student shares her thoughts on doing purification practice after attending the Vajrasattva retreat at…
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Middle way school and focusing your mind
What the self is and is not. Consciousness can be valid and mistaken at the…
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Causes and conditions for enlightenment
Understanding emptiness in the context of the entire Buddhist path, with the wish to attain…
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Verse 4: The darkness of ignorance
Ignorance of how things exist and ignorance of karma and its effects are like dark…
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