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Karma
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Examples of the Laws of Karma
Meditation Practices on the Laws of Karma Yesterday we talked about the laws of karma, the laws of behavioral cause and effect. In terms of karma in general, the main practice entails specifically to restrain yourself from committing any of the ten destructive, or nonvirtuous,...
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Serkong Rinpoche Dialogues with Students about Lam-rim
Karmic Versus Non-Karmic Impulses
The Constraints Regarding Five Systems of Natural Order According to Theravada Let me explain a little bit here about karmic and non-karmic impulses so that we have some idea of what we are actually talking about when we talk about karma and the issue of choice. In Theravada,...
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Karma: Neither Free Will nor Determinism
The Mechanism of Karma
Explanations of Karma If we’re going to work to overcome karma, to rid ourselves of this compulsiveness in our behavior, we need to know how karma works. There are several detailed explanations of this to be found in Buddhist literature. In general, there is the explanation...
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Ethical Discipline: Overcoming the Compulsiveness of Karma
Inciting, Incited, Speech and Mind Karmic Impulses in Sautrantika
Inciting and Incited Karmic Impulses In A Discussion for the Establishment of Karma (Las-grub-pa’i rab-tu byed-pa, Skt. Karmasiddhiprakaraṇa) (Derge Tengyur vol. 136, 144B), Vasubandhu states: Suppose you ask, “Well then, has the Bhagavan (Buddha, the Vanquishing Master...
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Details of Karma: The Sautrantika Presentation
Questions about Nonrevealing Forms of Vows and Karma
Nonrevealing Forms Can Be Known Only with Mental Cognition When we talk about a nonrevealing form, how is this known? Can we in our practice learn to be able to perceive it? “Nonrevealing” means that it doesn’t reveal its motivation to anybody. It is something that can be...
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Elaboration of “Karma: Who’s to Blame?”
Assertions about Karma from the Sarvastivada Abhidharma Basket
The Relation between Reinforced and Enacted Karmic Impulses and Inciting and Incited Karmic Impulses One of the main sources about karma from the Abhidharma Basket is Revealing Karma (Las gdags-pa, Skt. Karmaprajñapti) by Buddha’s disciple Maudgalyayana. In it, Maudgalyayana...
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Details of Karma: The Sanskrit Tripitaka Presentation
Analysis of the Gelug Prasangika Assertions about Karma
Further Background Material Range of the Analysis Since the issue of free will versus determinism hinges on the understanding of “ not-yet-happenings,” let us focus our analysis, for the moment, primarily on them. Moreover, let us limit our discussion to the Gelug Prasangika...
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A Buddha's Knowledge of the Past, Present and Future
Further Samsara
Review In this formulation, karma is exclusively a mental factor, an urge or impulse. It is the impulse that, while focused on an object, drives the primary consciousness and its accompanying mental factors to engage, in the next moment, in a specific action directed toward or...
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Mechanism of Karma: Asanga’s Presentation
Revealing Forms of the Body in Vaibhashika
Review In the discussion of the mental factor of an urge, in which we have borrowed and adapted to the Vaibhashika view the distinction between a performer and exertional impulse that Sautrantika draws, we have seen that urges that affect and drive a consciousness and its...
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Details of Karma: The Vaibhashika Presentation
Revealing Forms of Physical and Verbal Karma
Brief Historical Background of Non-Gelug and Tsongkhapa’s Systems Now we’re ready to look at Vasubandhu and Nagarjuna’s presentation of karma as asserted by Tsongkhapa. This is in accord with Tsongkhapa’s special way of explaining the Prasangika system of Madhyamaka. Someone...
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Mechanism of Karma: Vasubandhu and Nagarjuna’s Presentations
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