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Karma
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Analysis of Causality and Karma
Six Types of Causes Our discussion has brought up several questions and topics. We can add more pieces of the puzzle by looking into these topics so that we have a larger picture of what’s involved with karma. One of these topics is the topic of the different types of causes,...
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Karma: Neither Free Will nor Determinism
The Different Realms of Existence and Karma
Understanding Rebirth in Life Forms Other Than Human or Animal A topic that is often skipped over is that of the sufferings of the three lower realms, or the “three worse realms” as I prefer to call them. The Tibetan term is actually the “three bad realms,” but “bad” seems a...
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Self-Transformation through the Lam-rim Graded Stages
The Most Essential Aspects of Tantra Practice
Review Yesterday, we spoke about the meaning of tantra, a stream of continuity that goes on forever. There is a basis level – our mental continuum with the Buddha-nature factors. These include our networks of positive force and deep awareness, and the relative and deepest...
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Approaching Tantra as a Westerner
Types of Karmic Results
Five Types of Results We were speaking about the different types of causes and conditions, and in order to finish that discussion, let’s just list the five types of results. First of all, there are ripened results. Ripened results are the unobstructive, unspecified items...
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Karma: Neither Free Will nor Determinism
Refutation of Nonrevealing Forms as Substantial Entities in Sautrantika
Vasubandhu, in his (Auto)commentary on “A Treasure House of Special Topics of Knowledge” (Chos mngon-pa’i mdzod-kyi rang-’grel, Skt. Abhidharmakośa-bhāṣya) (Gretil ed. 196.04-06, Derge Tengyur vol. 160, 169A), explains further reasons that Sautrantika gives for rejecting...
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Details of Karma: The Sautrantika Presentation
Specifics of Revealing Forms of Speech in Vaibhashika
We have seen that a revealing form of speech is: A pleasing or unpleasing sound that, as a platform for words, is communicative of a sentient being and that has as its cause the great elements of the lips and tongue (parts of the body-sensors) that are appropriated by a...
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Details of Karma: The Vaibhashika Presentation
Karmic Potentials, Tendencies and Constant Habits
Brief Review of the System of Karma According to Vasubandhu and Nagarjuna Last time, we presented the main components of karma, or karmic impulses, according to Vasubandhu and Nagarjuna. We saw that mental karma refers to the mental factor of a compelling urge that draws the...
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Mechanism of Karma: Vasubandhu and Nagarjuna’s Presentations
Kalachakra: Winds of Karma & Mental Holograms
The Relevance of the Topic What I am hoping you will understand and appreciate through this explanation is the relevance of this topic. We’re not talking about something really esoteric and not related to anything. Because as I pointed out yesterday and I must underline again,...
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Kalachakra: The Four Creative Drops
All Aspects of Karma in the Five Aggregates
The Five Aggregates There’s one more topic that is relevant to our discussion of “me” and the role of “me” in all of this. “Me,” like age and speed and these sorts of things, is a nonstatic imputation phenomenon that is neither a form of physical phenomenon nor a way of being...
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Elaboration of “Karma: Who’s to Blame?”
Exploratory Analysis of Buddha’s Knowing the Three Times
The Basis for Valid Cognition of Not-Yet-Happenings (continued) We have been talking about the basis of negation, the basis of imputation, and so on, in terms of the not-yet-happening of the result. And we can understand the difference here: The basis of negation is the...
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Buddhist and Scientific Understandings of Time
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