Search results for: past karma

1. Beyond All Directions Beyond All Directions
    … The Buddha’s teaching on karma, however, focuses on the fact that while your experiences are influenced to some extent by actions from the past, the way you experience those influences depends on what you do with them in the present. In fact, without the karma of your present actions, you wouldn’t experience anything at all. So the Buddha’s teaching on karma … 
2. Beyond All Directions Virtue Without Attachment
    … In this way, you avoid creating the negative karma that would create needless harm around you, placing needless difficulties in your path. This also protects you from the regrets or denial that would eventually develop if you intentionally broke the precepts simply to prove to yourself that you weren’t attached to them. On the internal level, the practice of holding strictly to the … 
3. Beyond All Directions Metta Means Goodwill
    … Let no one deceive another or despise anyone anywhere, or through anger or resistance wish for another to suffer. —  Sn 1:8 In repeating these phrases, you wish not only that beings be happy, but also that they avoid the actions that would lead to bad karma, to their own unhappiness. You realize that happiness has to depend on action: For people to find … 
4. Beyond All Directions On Denying Defilement
    … Like traditional Buddhist concepts such as karma and rebirth, it has been dropped by many Western Buddhist teachers. But unlike those concepts, people rarely mention that it’s been dropped. Either it’s not mentioned or—if it is—it’s dismissed as always having been dismissed in the Buddha’s teachings. Few Western Buddhists realize that the concept ever played much of a … 
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