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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More on the 12 links of dependent origination
Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe discusses how to contemplate the twelve links of dependent arising.
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The 12 links
Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe continues explaining the wheel of life, going through each of the twelve…
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Positing a dependently existing self
Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe continues analyzing the existence of the self and starts explaining the wheel…
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The chariot is dependently designated
Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe explains how to analyze the mode of existence of the self.
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Review of the 4 fearlessnesses and 10 powers
Reviewing the four fearlessnesses and ten powers.
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Positing a dependently existing self
Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe teaches how a dependently existing self is posited within dependent arising.
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How the self transitions from this life into the next
Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe teaches how the dependent self transitions from this life into the next.
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Strategies for dealing with problems
Exploring practices we can use to shift our perspective and to increase our happiness.
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Why do I say I’m unhappy?
How karma fuels our experiences and an introduction to selflessness in different tenet systems.
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Intoxicants and celibacy
Explaining the two precepts westerners have the most difficulty with—taking intoxicants and unwise or unkind…
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How karma is accumulated
Identifying karma that is accumulated and how you die and are reborn.
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