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Karma
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The Need for Revising Asanga’s Presentation of Karma
Review We are continuing our discussion of what karma actually means. We discussed the presentation the Indian master Asanga made within the context of the Chittamatra system of tenets. If we translate Chittamatra literally, it means “mind-only.” We saw that, in this system,...
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Mechanism of Karma: Vasubandhu and Nagarjuna’s Presentations
The Fundamental Features of Karma
The Meaning of Karma There are many explanations of karma in the different Indian Buddhist tenet systems. Let us use the least complicated of them, the main explanation followed by the non-Gelug Tibetan traditions. We also find it in the Gelug explanation of all the Indian...
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Re-examining Karma Immediately after 9/11
Wheel of Sharp Weapons: The Four Sections of the Text
Part One: Contrasting Bodhisattvas with Ordinary Beings Two Traditions for Developing Conventional Bodhichitta To destroy self-grasping and self-cherishing and to attain enlightenment, all mind training texts emphasize tonglen. This is the practice of giving and taking as...
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Overview of “Wheel of Sharp Weapons” – Dr. Berzin
Not-Yet-Happening Events
Karma: Neither Deterministic nor Predetermined We’ve been discussing karma, and we saw that there are various systems with which karma is explained. However, what we are speaking about when we talk about karma is our compulsive behavior, what brings on our compulsive behavior,...
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Karma: Neither Free Will nor Determinism
Karma Impulses of the Mind, Body and Speech
Brief Review In the first session, we introduced the topic of Karma: Who’s to Blame? We saw that the approach we need to follow is an analytic one in which we examine each of the three components: karma, self and blame. If we want to get a harmonious picture of how these...
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Elaboration of “Karma: Who’s to Blame?”
Wheel of Sharp Weapons – Poetic Rendering
The name of this work is The Wheel of Sharp Weapons Effectively Striking the Heart of the Foe. I pay heartfelt homage to you, Yamantaka; your wrath is opposed to the Great Lord of Death. [1] [notes by Geshe Ngawang Dhargyey: see below] (1) In jungles of poisonous plants...
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Wheel of Sharp Weapons
The Twelve Links: Karma, Mind & Next Life Aggregates
Review We were talking about how mind in Buddhism refers to an activity that goes on with no break, with no beginning and with no end. It is the mental activity of experiencing things and it is an individual, subjective experiencing of things. We are not talking here about...
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The Twelve Links: An In-Depth Analysis
Kalachakra: The Awake-Occasion Creative Drop
The Importance of Analysis We were discussing what Kalachakra adds to our understanding of the four noble truths. And we saw that one of the most distinctive features that it adds is the discussion of the flowing or coursing of the winds of karma in our bodies, our subtle...
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Kalachakra: The Four Creative Drops
Mahamudra: Deeper Presentation of the Preliminaries
Taming the Mind All of us wish for happiness and none of us wish to have any suffering. This is true of everybody, but it is very difficult to come upon all the circumstances that will bring this about. If we look merely at external circumstances, we find it nearly...
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A Discourse on “Autocommentary to ‘A Root Text for Mahamudra’” – The Dalai Lama
Is There a Common Ground-Denominator Time?
Formulation of the Topic for Analysis We’ve seen that a temporal interval is what we’re speaking about in Buddhism when we speak about time, an interval between the occurrence of a cause and the occurrence of an effect. And what is most common that everybody accepts is that...
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Buddhist and Scientific Understandings of Time
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