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 The four opponent powers for purification
The importance of purifying negative karma and how to use the four opponent powers in…
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Venerable Thubten Chodron Chapter 3: Verses 10-20
How to look at our experiences of hurt or betrayal from a Dharma point of…
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Chapter 3: Verses 4-10
How the self-centered attitude obstructs our happiness. How and why we request teachings and how…
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Chapter 3: Verses 1-3
Developing love and compassion in a reasonable way. The importance of purification and creating of…
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Enlightening the path in our hearts
Are you dealing with hard situations in life or having difficulties with others? Daily meditation…
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Clarifying the practice
Learning to work with anxiety. Questions from retreatants on visualization in the sadhana and about…
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Working through cause and effect
Defining physical and mental causes with examples. Tools to work with negative states of mind.
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Mid-retreat discussion
Addressing questions on different aspects of the meditation: the body, emptiness, visualization and deity meditation.
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Raymond Larsen - Feb 1, 2008
Raymond Larsen An incentive to engage in virtue
A sudden illness gives a student greater incentive and renewed urgency to practice the Dharma.
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Taking joy in our Dharma practice
Having an appreciation for joyous effort and showing interest in overcoming laziness.
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Incarcerated people 
Fortitude of practicing the Dharma
Going through physical and mental hardships during our Dharma practice by cultivating patience.
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