Karma

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.

The Sautrantika explanation of karma arose as a critique of the Sarvastivada abhidharma presentation that was later codified as the Vaibhashika view.

To overcome the karmic obstacles we create for ourselves, we must forcefully destroy the self-grasping underlying our compulsive destructive behavior.

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

Blame for our karma is based on the misconceptions involved with grasping for a self-established “me,” whereas taking responsibility for our karma is based on correct understanding of voidness and dependent arising.

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

Buddha spoke of karma, as recorded in his sutras, while his disciples and later generations elaborated his teachings on karma in their abhidharma compilations.

A seminar on what karma actually means in terms of Vasubandhu and Nagarjuna’s presentations.

If we can start to understand karma and how it works, we can begin to understand what happens in our lives and how to deal with it.

An explanation of the samsaric mechanism of death and rebirth and the liberating mechanism of the sutra, anuttarayoga tantra and Kalachakra methods for attaining a true stopping of them with the attainment of enlightenment.