Karma

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

This presentation is the basic explanation of karma of the Chittamatra, Sautrantika and Yogachara-Svatantrika Indian tenet systems, based on texts of Asanga and Vasubandhu.

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...

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.

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.

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

Details about Kalachakra, its history and relation with the Dalai Lamas.

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

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.