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Karma
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Wheel of Sharp Weapons – Literal Translation
I make prostration to the Three Rare Supreme Gems. “The Throwing Star Weapon Striking the Vital Point of the Foe.” I make prostration to forceful Yamantaka. (1) In the case of peacocks strutting in jungles of poisonous plants, although medicine gardens have been finely...
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Wheel of Sharp Weapons
Karmic Bingo
The Complexity of Karma Karma is a topic that concerns what happens to us and why. It is something that is very relevant to all of us on a personal level, not something outside of the sphere of our lives. If we can start to understand karma and how it works, we can begin to...
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Re-examining Karma Immediately after 9/11
True Sufferings and the True Cause of Unhappiness
Samsara This evening, we’re going to begin a series of talks on how the understanding of voidness (emptiness) helps us to overcome our uncontrollably recurring rebirths, samsara. Samsara is not some place that we want to escape from and go instead to some transcendent realm...
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Elaboration of “How Cognition of Emptiness Liberates Us”
General Questions about Karma
The Complexity of Karma This weekend we’re going to be speaking about karma, and although the topic is announced as “karma: free will versus determinism,” that will be just a part of what we’ll talk about. I’d like to go into some detail about what karma is, what the various...
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Karma: Neither Free Will nor Determinism
Mahamudra: Purification of Mental Activity
Stages of True Stoppings What is relevant here in our discussion of mahamudra is that in both the impure and pure situations, the nature of the mental activity is the same. The conventional nature of both impure and pure mental activity is always mere clarity and awareness....
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Mahamudra and the Four Noble Truths
Assertions about Karma from the Mahayana Sutra Basket
Let us first examine the main assertions concerning karmic impulses and revealing and nonrevealing forms in the Mahayana Sutra Basket and then, in the next part of this series, in the Sarvastivada Abhidharma Basket. These are the forerunners of some of the main features of the...
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Details of Karma: The Sanskrit Tripitaka Presentation
Differentiating Body, Speech and Mind Karmic Impulses in Sautrantika
How a Mental Urge, and Not a Revealing Form, Functions as a Karmic Impulse for Actions of the Body Vasubandhu explains in A Discussion for the Establishment of Karma (Las-grub-pa’i rab-tu byed-pa, Skt. Karmasiddhiprakaraṇa) (Derge vol. 136, 144B): Suppose (Vaibhashika) asks,...
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Details of Karma: The Sautrantika Presentation
The Seven Types of Karmic Impulses in Madhyamaka
The karmic impulses of the body, speech and mind can be further divided into seven types. Nagarjuna’s Presentation Nagarjuna states in Root Verses on the Middle Way, Called Discriminating Awareness (dBu-ma rtsa-ba’i tshig-le’ur byas-pa shes-rab ces bya-ba, Skt....
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Details of Karma: Madhyamaka Presentation
Aftermath of Karma
We have discussed the first two periods, immediately before doing, saying, or thinking something and while we are actually doing, saying, or thinking it. Now we are ready to discuss what happens after the karmic action has ended. After a karmic action has ended, there are...
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Mechanism of Karma: Asanga’s Presentation
Mental Urges in Karmic Actions of the Body and Speech in Vaibhashika
Review of Mental Urges in Karmic Actions of the Mind In the previous part of this series, we modified Vasubandhu’s Sautrantika presentation of the division between performer impulses (byed-pa’i las, Skt. kāritrakarma) and exertional impulses (rtsol-ba-can-gyi las, Skt....
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Details of Karma: The Vaibhashika Presentation
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