Karma

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.

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

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.

Our precious human life allows us to achieve liberation from uncontrollably recurring rebirth and reach the enlightened state of a Buddha through Dharma practice.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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