Karma

Ordering Someone to Commit a Harmful Action Brings about an Increase in Negative Karmic Potential for Both the Agent of the Action and the One Who Ordered It  As for ordering others to commit harmful actions of body or speech, such as taking a life or lying, Vasubandhu,...

Gaining Liberation To gain liberation from uncontrollably recurring rebirth, samsara, we need to reverse the mechanism of the twelve links. We do this by ridding ourselves of the first link, unawareness or ignorance about how the self – me and all others exist. When we have...

Let us look more closely at the type of nonrevealing form that a pratimoksha vowed restraint (so-sor thar-pa’i sdom-pa, Skt. prātimokṣasaṃvara) is. There Is Only One Nonrevealing Form for All the Branches of a Pratimoksha Vowed Restraint  Vasubandhu adds further detail...

Three Main Types of Nonrevealing Forms Vasubandhu states in A Treasure House of Special Topics of Knowledge, Put in Verses (Chos mngon-pa’i mdzod-kyi tshig-le’ur byas-pa, Skt. Abhidharmakośa-kārikā) (IV.13) (Gretil ed., Derge Tengyur vol. 104, 11A): Nonrevealing (forms) are to...

Obtaining the Nonrevealing Form of a Vowed Restraint Vasubandhu states in A Treasure House of Special Topics of Knowledge, Put in Verses (Chos mngon-pa’i mdzod-kyi tshig-le’ur byas-pa, Skt. Abhidharmakośa-kārikā) (IV.26cd) (Gretil ed., Derge Tengyur vol. 140, 11A):  What...

Relinquishing Nonrevealing Forms of Vowed Restraints Vasubandhu explains how the nonrevealing form of a vowed restraint is relinquished in A Treasure House of Special Topics of Knowledge, Put in Verses (Chos mngon-pa’i mdzod-kyi tshig-le’ur byas-pa, Skt. Abhidharmakośa-kārikā)...

The evolution of a universe is intimately connected with the karma of the limited beings that will be reborn into it.

A summary of the main assertions unique to the Gelug tradition, concerning cognition theory, the Indian Buddhist tenet systems, karma, the three times, and many more.

Understanding the many factors that affect our karma, we can change what we experience in life as the result of our previous compulsive behavior.

Constructive behavior builds up positive potential (merit) on our mental continuum for experiencing happiness. But what does that mean?