Karma

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

An explanation of the role of the four creative-energy drops in the process of causing uncontrollably recurring samsaric existence.

Vajrasattva practice is a tantric meditation done for the purification of negative karmic potentials. On an ultimate level, Vajrasattva practice is non-conceptual meditation on voidness.

According to Mahayana texts, if we get angry for even one moment at a bodhisattva whom we do not know is a bodhisattva, it devastates the positive potential that we have built up for many eons.

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.

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.

The Madhyamaka presentation derives from Nagarjuna and his Indian and Tibetan commentators.

To overcome chronic feelings of guilt at having committed destructive actions, we need to deconstruct our misconceptions about karmic cause and effect and the self.

A look at the ten destructive ways of behaving – actions that create our unhappiness – and how to avoid them.

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