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 Tarpa Compassion in action
How to be compassionate in a world where there are many problems and how to…
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Venerable Thubten Chodron The welfare of all beings
What it means to work for the wellbeing and happiness of all sentient beings. Seeing…
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The shaper of our life and death
An understanding of karma changes how we choose to live our lives.
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Verse 24-2: Marks of a buddha
Explaining the origin and significance of the signs and marks of the Buddha.
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Practicing the Dharma, transforming the mind
Identifying incorrect thoughts and applying effort and fortitude, practicing the Dharma by putting the teachings…
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Refuge in the Three Jewels
What it means to take refuge in the Buddha, Dharma, and Sangha.
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Verse 20-3: Creating the causes
A meditation practice of reasoning with the angry mind to drop the anger. Considering that…
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Verse 20-2: The lower realms
A description of the lower realms, and whether they are actual places or just states…
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Verse 20-1: Going downhill
The importance of preventing sentient beings, and ourselves, from being born in the lower realms.
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108 Verses: Verses 7-9
Three types of compassion and examples of bucket in a well for comparing cyclic existence.
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Verse 19-4: Antidote to depression
How meditating on precious human life results in constant awareness of how fortunate we are,…
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Verse 19-3: Bodhisattva practices
The importance of aiming for a precious human life, even if that's not our long-term…
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