Karma

The Vaibhashika explanation of karma derives from the abhidharma texts of Vasubandhu and their Indian commentaries.

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.

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

With ethical self-discipline, we can overcome the compulsiveness of our karma that causes us all levels of problems.

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

Karma is the mental urge that drives us to act, speak or think in compulsive ways.

How the topic of karma is to be understood in relation to the issue of free will versus determinism.

The lam-rim, or graded stages of the Buddhist path, take us from an ordinary limited being to a fully enlightened Buddha.

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.

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