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 Chodron Why things happen the way they do
Understanding karma as a way to make our lives meaningful.
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Rebirth: A difficult point for Westerners
Developing faith in the Buddhist view of continuation of life and guiding oneself with positive…
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Incarcerated people Purification
Using the Vajrasattva mantra and practice to change unhealthy habits of daily life.
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Happiness and pleasures
Analysis of what it means to truly love ourselves. What is happiness?
View Post Purification and non-negotiables
Clarification of what is being purified. Criteria we use to make decisions: how wise are…
View Post Create karma, accumulate merit, apply antidote
Working on concepts of karma, emptiness, attachment in the retreat. An analytical meditation of what…
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Doing Vajrasattva retreat
A person in prison relates his intention to take refuge and importance of purification.
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Rejoicing in receiving the Vajrasattva initiation from Lama Zopa. Clarifying various aspects of the meditation…
View Post Initial experiences of retreatants
Working through different states of mind and restless energy, changing the way we move in…
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Wheel of Sharp Weapons: Verse 104-Conclusion
How things exist dependent on causes and conditions, they appear one way and exist in…
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