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Karma

Action and its fruit. The seeing that what we do shapes what we become — the most precise law the Buddha named.

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A traditional Bhavacakra wall mural showing Yama holding the wheel of life, with the six realms of rebirth and the Buddha pointing the way out

Core Teachings

Karma and Rebirth

Karma, in the Buddha's usage, is volitional action — and the law that intentional acts of body, speech, and mind carry consequences that ripen in this life or the next. Rebirth is the continuation of the stream of consciousness driven by craving and clinging.

A Bhavacakra (Wheel of Life) mural held in the jaws and claws of Yama, painted on a monastery wall

Core Teachings

Dependent Origination

The twelvefold chain by which ignorance gives rise to suffering, and the principle that nothing arises independently. The deepest of the Buddha's teachings, and the heart of the Madhyamaka analysis of emptiness.

Teachings

Chokyi Nyima Rinpoche

The Ten Non-Virtuous Actions

A teaching on the ten unwholesome deeds — three of body, four of speech, three of mind — and what it means to renounce them in a modern Nepali life.

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The Dhammapada in Daily Life — Episode 06

The sixth episode. The slow accretion of practice, one verse at a time.

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