Karma

An explanation of the role of the four creative-energy drops in the process of causing uncontrollably recurring samsaric existence.

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

Understanding karma helps us begin to comprehend what happens to us in lives and to influence what will happen in the future.

Repeatedly gaining precious human rebirths makes the ultimate goals of liberation and enlightenment possible. To understand rebirth, it is essential to understand the nature of our mind and to gain a proper understanding of karma.

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

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.

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

How the topic of karma is to be understood in relation to the issue of free will versus determinism.

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.

We need to develop a deeper understanding of the four noble truths by understanding its sixteen aspects.