Search results for: past karma

1. Head & Heart Together Head & Heart Together
    … The skillful karma of developing these attitudes in the present is so expansive that whatever results of past bad actions may arise, you hardly notice them. A proper understanding of karma also helps to correct the false idea that if people are suffering they deserve to suffer, so you might as well just leave them alone. When you catch yourself thinking in those terms … 
2. Head & Heart Together The Lessons of Gratitude
    … As for the debts you owe yourself for your past good karma, the best way to repay them is to use your benefits as opportunities to create further good karma, and not simply enjoy the pleasure they offer. Here again it’s important to remember the hardships that can be involved in acting skillfully, and to honor your past skillful intentions by not allowing … 
3. Head & Heart Together The Power of Judgment
    … The second warning sign is that they don’t hold to the principle of karma. They either deny that we have freedom of choice, or else teach that one person can clear away another person’s bad karma from the past. People of this sort are unlikely to put forth the effort to be genuinely skillful, and so are untrustworthy guides. Lack of integrity … 
4. Head & Heart Together The Wisdom of the Ego
    … If your ego functions are healthy and well-coordinated, they give you a consistent sense of priorities as to which forms of happiness are more worthwhile than others; a clear sense of where your responsibilities do and don’t lie; a strong sense of your ability to judge right and wrong for yourself; and an honest sense of how to learn from your past … 
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