Search results for: past karma

  1. Book search result icon The Truth of Rebirth 3 : Rebirth & Action
     … Knowledge about karma played a role in the second and third. In the first knowledge, he recollected many eons of his own previous lives: “When the mind was thus concentrated, purified, bright, unblemished, rid of defilement, pliant, malleable, steady, & attained to imperturbability, I directed it to the knowledge of recollecting my past lives. I recollected my manifold past lives, i.e., one birth, two … 
  2. Book search result icon The Truth of Rebirth 6 : Food for Rebirth
     … On the other hand, had there been no past craving, none of these forms of nutriment would even exist: “These four nutriments have craving as their cause, craving as their origination, are born from craving, are brought into being from craving.” — MN 38 This means that craving produces the food that it then feeds on—a fact that allows for the processes leading to … 
  3. Book search result icon The Truth of Rebirth 7 : Choosing Dispassion
     … In addition to providing motivation in practicing the path, the assumptions of karma and rebirth play an important role in ferreting out attachments to fabrications and other processes that you might otherwise overlook as you follow the path. If you don’t believe, for instance, that a particular instance of passion or delight could have huge repercussions in the future, and if it seems … 
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