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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Short Verses to Cultivate Bodhicitta

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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Short Verses to Cultivate Bodhicitta

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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Short Verses to Cultivate Bodhicitta

Verse 20-1: Going downhill

The importance of preventing sentient beings, and ourselves, from being born in the lower realms.

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Statue of 1000 armed Chenrezig made of wood.
108 Verses on Compassion

108 Verses: Verses 7-9

Three types of compassion and examples of bucket in a well for comparing cyclic existence.

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Abbey Guest
Short Verses to Cultivate Bodhicitta

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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Abbey Guest
Short Verses to Cultivate Bodhicitta

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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Connection
Short Verses to Cultivate Bodhicitta

Verse 19-2: Precious human life

Not every human life is a precious human life. Considering living beings who are so…

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Snow path with sun burst
Short Verses to Cultivate Bodhicitta

Verse 19-1: The upper realms

How a precious human life gives us just enough comfort and just enough suffering to…

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Seven-point Mind Training

Benefits of mind training

Self-centeredness is the root of all problems and conflicts. It is our true enemy, not…

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