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 Craving for pleasures
How we cling to sense pleasures, our own ways of doing things, and examining if…
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Ethical conduct and motivation
The meaning of happiness, how anger and attachment cause suffering, and the benefits of a…
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The relationship with a teacher
How pleasing our spiritual mentors benefits us, creating stores of merit. The importance of avoiding…
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Regard for the spiritual mentor
The benefit we receive by contemplating the kindness of our teachers, training our minds to…
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Incarcerated people 
Khensur Jampa Tegchok Renunciation and compassion
The mind at death, the nourishing of karma, and how renunciation and compassion are two…
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The 12 links of dependent arising
Ending the 12 links of dependent arising, correcting wrong views in how we perceive a…
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Conception of “I”
How all beings arise from the conception of "I" and are enveloped with the conception…
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Motivation in practicing virtue
The importance of creating virtue with the proper motivation.
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The truth of dukkha
Understanding dukkha helps us to cultivate the wish to be free from it.
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The mind and renunciation
The "garbage mind:" how it keeps returning us to cyclic existence over countless rebirths, and…
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