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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Wisdom fear of samsara
A teaching on the reality of cyclic existence and possibility for liberation. Reflecting on our…
View PostCompassion for perpetrators
A compassionate response to the difficulties both caused and experienced by L. B., an incarcerated…
View PostThe 37 Practices of Bodhisattvas
Verses on developing the qualities of a bodhisattva by Gyelsay Togmay Zangpo, plus a recording…
View PostRealizing our potential
Realizing our full potential by recognizing others' great kindness and purifying the mind of the…
View PostWhy things happen the way they do
Understanding karma as a way to make our lives meaningful.
View PostRebirth: A difficult point for Westerners
Developing faith in the Buddhist view of continuation of life and guiding oneself with positive…
View PostPurification
Using the Vajrasattva mantra and practice to change unhealthy habits of daily life.
View PostHappiness and pleasures
Analysis of what it means to truly love ourselves. What is happiness?
View PostPurification and non-negotiables
Clarification of what is being purified. Criteria we use to make decisions: how wise are…
View PostCreate karma, accumulate merit, apply antidote
Working on concepts of karma, emptiness, attachment in the retreat. An analytical meditation of what…
View PostDoing Vajrasattva retreat
A person in prison relates his intention to take refuge and importance of purification.
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