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How Karma Works part 5

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How Karma Works
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Karma: all of our actions and thoughts have inevitable results, both positive and negative, for better or for worse. Navigating our lives—and future rebirths—depends on understanding causality: how karma works. Understanding karma is crucial to reaching our goals, both material and spiritual.

In class 5 we discuss:

  • Virtuous, non-virtuous, and neutral karma.
  • Four aspects of creating new karma.
  • How to create powerful karmas—for better or worse.
  • Mitigating the effects of non-virtuous karma.

Video and class materials.

How Karma Works part 4

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How Karma Works part 4
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Karma: all of our actions and thoughts have inevitable results, both positive and negative, for better or for worse. Navigating our lives—and future rebirths—depends on understanding causality: how karma works. Understanding karma is crucial to reaching our goals, both material and spiritual.

In class 4 we discuss:

  •  How karma is stored in the mind.
  • How karmic causes are created, and how karmic results emerge.
  • Comparing Mind-Only and Middle-Way schools description of karma.

Video and class materials.

How Karma Works part 3

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How Karma Works
How Karma Works
How Karma Works part 3
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Karma: all of our actions and thoughts have inevitable results, both positive and negative, for better or for worse. Navigating our lives—and future rebirths—depends on understanding causality: how karma works. Understanding karma is crucial to reaching our goals, both material and spiritual.

In class 3 we discuss:

  • when karma created in the present can ripen in the future
  • the four different types of ripened results
  • karmic correlations—the types of ripened results that come from specific actions

Video and class materials.

How Karma Works part 2

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How Karma Works
How Karma Works
How Karma Works part 2
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Karma: all of our actions and thoughts have inevitable results, both positive and negative, for better or for worse. Navigating our lives—and future rebirths—depends on understanding causality: how karma works. Understanding karma is crucial to reaching our goals, both material and spiritual.

In class 2:

  • Examine “old” karma and “new” karma.
  • Explore virtuous, non-virtuous, and neutral karma.
  • Go through the ten main ways to create non-virtuous karma, and their positive counterparts.

Video and class materials.

How Karma Works part 1

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How Karma Works
How Karma Works
How Karma Works part 1
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Karma: all of our actions and thoughts have inevitable results, both positive and negative, for better or for worse. Navigating our lives—and future rebirths—depends on understanding causality: how karma works. Understanding karma is crucial to reaching our goals, both material and spiritual.

In class 1:

  • we start looking at the Buddhist texts we’ll use as our source,
  • logical proofs for how the universe works,
  • and mental vs phyiscal karma.

Video and class materials.