Cause and Effect

The Need for Deconstruction Methods Sometimes, we discover that we are overreacting to what we see, hear, or feel because we are mistaken about what we perceived. We thought, for example, that our friend was angry with us because he or she did not call for days. In fact, our...

Exercise 12: Visualizing Life's Changes The first exercise for deconstructing deceptive appearances helps us to dissolve faulty impressions we might have of situations or persons as permanent. We need to deconstruct our feelings that people's appearance, mode of behavior, or...

An introduction to the Four Noble Truths, Buddha’s unique approach to the problem of suffering, and how it can be solved.

A concise explanation of karma from the Buddhist point of view.

The samsara-builder network of positive force gives rise to a samsaric body and samsaric happiness, while the enlightenment-builder network of positive force ripens into to a Buddha Form Body and untainted bliss. There is a similar distinction with the samsara-builder and...

Different types of causes and conditions lead to different results.

There is not one cause, but a multitude of causes that result in our experiences.

The basic framework for the Buddhist teachings.

To deconstruct our moment-to-moment experiences, we need to deconstruct our aggregates through an analysis of causality: causes, conditions and results.

With an extensive presentation of harmful situations that befall us, their karmic causes and the ways of behaving that will counter them, Dharmarakshita leads us to the practice of tonglen, giving and taking.