Good Karma (2021–present)
Ongoing teachings during the annual Memorial Day Weekend Retreat based on Good Karma: How to Create the Causes of Happiness and Avoid the Causes of Suffering
Serving others instead of exploiting them
Venerable Thubten Chodron How to overcome miserliness and being mistreated by others.
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Karmic consequences of the ten nonvirtues
Why we should avoid engaging in killing, stealing, and sexual misconduct.
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Helpful and unhelpful friends
Responses to questions and commentary on verses about spiritual friends.
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Intro to karma and its effects
Reflections on the kindness of others and introduction to the law of karma and its effects.
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Determining to maintain good character wherever...
Avoiding pretension and deceit with our spiritual mentors and keeping good ethical conduct.
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Q&A on karma
The importance of developing equanimity and questions from the audience about how karma works.
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Results of transgressing ethical commitments
The importance of ethical commitments and taking our practice seriously.
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Facing hardship for the Dharma
How enduring hardship for the sake of the Dharma is worthwhile, freeing us from mental laziness.
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The four characteristics of karma
How to understand karma in the context of cyclic existence and multiple lifetimes.
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Overcoming spiritual obstacles
How contemplating impermanence and the defects of cyclic existence helps to transform our minds.
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Karma and the mind’s namtok
Our distorted ways of thinking and how this lead to the creation of negative karma.
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