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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Volume 3 Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature

Understanding ignorance

Explaining how afflictions are rooted in ignorance and how we can eradicate ignorance, continuing the…

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Volume 3 Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature

Buddhahood depends on sentient beings

Reviewing Chapter 12, "The Mind and Its Potential", describing how Buddhas depends on sentient beings…

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Rice Seedling Sutra with Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe

How to seek reality by means of dependent arising

The Buddha’s motivation for teaching dependent origination, the two kinds of ignorance, and the instinctual…

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Rice Seedling Sutra with Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe

Wrong views of emptiness

Geshe Yeshe Thabkhe outlines and refutes various misinterpretations of the Buddha’s teaching on emptiness.

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The Six Perfections

Perfection of generosity: Giving fearlessly

Supporting ethical and virtuous conduct with conventional analysis, and generosity of even most precious possessions…

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Volume 3 Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature

Karma in samsara and beyond

Completing teaching from Chapter 10, explaining the last two transcendental factors and covering the types…

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