Karma

Introduction to Kalachakra, a tantra system for overcoming the ravages of time and attaining enlightenment.

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.

Karma refers to the compelling urges driving our behavior and the compulsive forms our behavior takes. Learn how each of the Buddhist tenet systems uses the basic terminology to describe the mechanism involved.

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.

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

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...

Think before acting or speaking compulsively, to prevent later feeling regret.

Take a broad view of yourself, to stop exaggerating mistakes and forgive yourself.

A Tibetan-Mongolian horoscope reveals possible courses one’s life can take due to karma and thus indicates that no course is inevitable. Everything that happens arises dependently on innumerable causes and circumstances and what one does contributes to the course of one’s life.