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 Good Karma: Serving others instead of exploiting them
How to overcome miserliness and being mistreated by others.
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Good Karma: The four characteristics of karma
More about the characteristics of karma and how to overcome mental suffering.
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Good Karma: A short overview of the Buddhist worldview
Introduction to the Buddhist worldview and "The Wheel of Sharp Weapons."
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Venerable Sangye Khadro The 9-point meditation on death
Two guided meditations on death with questions and answers.
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Geshe Tenzin Chodrak (Dadul Namgyal) Understanding ignorance
Explaining how afflictions are rooted in ignorance and how we can eradicate ignorance, continuing the…
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Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe The eightfold path
Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe explains the statement, "Whoever sees dependent arising sees the Dharma. Whoever sees…
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Liberation & the eightfold noble path
Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe explains the meaning of the eightfold noble path.
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How to seek the view
Teaching on the sections, "How to Seek the View," and "The Contradiction in One Thing…
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Dependent arising refutes the object of negation
Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe explains the difference in subtlety between the object of negation for the…
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Another way of establishing dependence
Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe explains mutual dependence, showing how just as an effect depends on its…
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All phenomena are dependently arisen
Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe clarifies the Prasangika perspective on causal dependency and explains the section, "The…
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Dependent arising of composite phenomena
Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe begins the section, "Dependent Arising of Composite Phenomena," and explains how effects…
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