Karma

Inner Kalachakra concerns the cycles that the body undergoes, such as the life cycle and the passage of the breath during each day.

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

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

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

A concise explanation of karma from the Buddhist point of view.

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

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.

The Gelug assertions of the various ways in which tendencies and habits differ.

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.

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