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

The “Ye Dharma Dharani”

Starting teaching from Chapter 10, explaining "dharani" to describe how they cover different aspects of…

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Healing Anger

Working with anger

Practical advice on working with anger in personal relationships and dealing with criticism.

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Volume 3 Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature

Benefits of meditating on the the 12 links

Commencing the teaching from Chapter 9 and describing the benefits of meditating on the 12…

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Volume 3 Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature

Ultimate nature of the twelve links

Continuing the teachings from Chapter 8, covering the section "The Ultimate Nature of the Twelve…

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Wisdom

Monk chat: Questions about reality and attaining lib...

Short videos covering questions about arhats, karma, and the nature of reality.

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Volume 3 Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature

Examples of how we cycle

Teaching from Chapter 8, describing the implicit explanation of the 12 links and covering the…

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Meditation

Using logic to prove selflessness

The reasonings refuting external phenomena put forward by the proponents of the Mind-Only School.

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Volume 3 Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature

Explicit and implicit presentations of the 12 links

Continuing the teachings from Chapter 8, explaining the explicit and implicit descriptions of the 12…

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Volume 3 Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature

Aging or death

Completing Chapter 7, describing the twelfth-link, aging or death and starting Chapter 8 "Dependent Origination:…

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Volume 3 Samsara, Nirvana, and Buddha Nature

Birth

Continuing teaching from Chapter 7, describing the importance of imagining our own death and explaining…

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