Karma

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.

Understanding and appreciating Kalachakra’s unique features and methods for attaining enlightenment grow based on first understanding and appreciating the unique features of Mahayana sutra, general tantra and anuttarayoga tantra.

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

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

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

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.

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

Understanding the many factors that affect our karma, we can change what we experience in life as the result of our previous compulsive behavior.

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

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.