Search results for: past karma

  1. Book search result icon The Heart a Flowing Stream Everywhere & Always
     … This means that if you recognize a mistake and learn not to repeat it, you can delay its results, which would give you the opening to practice for the sake of awakening and gaining release from the results of past actions entirely. The Buddha’s understanding of karma, along with the steps he recommended in judging your past mistakes, help to avoid two extreme … 
  2. Book search result icon The Heart a Flowing Stream The Heart a Flowing Stream
     … One of the insights that the Buddha gained in the second knowledge on the night of his awakening—knowledge of how beings are reborn in line with their karma—was that your level of rebirth was determined not only by past karma, but also, and sometimes more forcefully, by your present karma: the choices made at the moment of death. This insight showed him … 
  3. Book search result icon The Heart a Flowing Stream Fun & Games
     … Their general attitude is that if you have the past karma to develop any of the psychic powers, they’ll come on their own as you practice concentration. If they come, learn how to use them wisely and with caution. If they don’t come, no problem, as they’re not necessary for awakening. At the same time, the fact that other people have … 
  4. Book search result icon The Heart a Flowing Stream At War with the Dhamma
     … Yet there have been such attempts in the past, and they’re with us again now. If we have any concern for the Dhamma at all, it’s important to reject these theories outright. Otherwise, we find ourselves quibbling over when and where it’s right to issue a Buddhist license to kill. And no matter how strictly we try to restrict the license … 
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