Karma

Inner Kalachakra concerns the cycles that the body undergoes, such as the life cycle and the passage of the breath during each day.

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.

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 overview of terminologies used when describing everything left on someone’s mental continuum as a consequence of having committed a karmic action.

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

A detailed analysis of how to understand the networks of “pure-builder positive force” and “pure-builder deep awareness.”

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...

A discussion between Jonathan Landaw and Dr. Berzin about the relationship between collective karma and environmental or societal situations of a group that experiences them.

An in-depth series of talks on how the question of free will versus predetermination fits into the Buddhist presentation of karma.