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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Rice Seedling Sutra with Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe

The 12 links

Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe continues explaining the wheel of life, going through each of the twelve…

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Rice Seedling Sutra with Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe

Positing a dependently existing self

Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe continues analyzing the existence of the self and starts explaining the wheel…

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Rice Seedling Sutra with Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe

Positing a dependently existing self

Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe teaches how a dependently existing self is posited within dependent arising.

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Contentment and Happiness

Strategies for dealing with problems

Exploring practices we can use to shift our perspective and to increase our happiness.

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Stages of the Path

The path to cultivate

Guarding ethical conduct and the four causes of infractions.

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Heart Sutra

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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Volume 4 Following in the Buddha's Footsteps

Intoxicants and celibacy

Explaining the two precepts westerners have the most difficulty with—taking intoxicants and unwise or unkind…

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Stages of the Path

How karma is accumulated

Identifying karma that is accumulated and how you die and are reborn.

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