Teachings
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Advice and practices to purify negative karma created by previous actions.
- The Karma of Killing •
- Fatal Car Accident •
- Killing One's Parents •
- Purifying Negative Karma •
- Purifying Forefather’s Karma of Killing •
- Purifying the Karma of Harming Others •
- The Real Responsibility •
- Purifying the Karma of Disrespecting a Friend •
- Purifying the Karma of Harming Mother •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
Advice on karma, including how to create good karma and avoid nonvirtue.
Topics: Path to Enlightenment (lam-rim) > Karma > Understanding Karma
- Accepting Karma •
- Many Obstacles Due to Karma •
- Karma of a Group is More Powerful •
- Everything is Produced by Karma •
- Result of Past Karma •
- Karma and Its Results •
- Good Karma of Caring For Animals •
- Karma is Definite •
- Think of the Kindness of Sentient Beings •
- The Karma of Harming Others •
- Treat Others Peacefully, Be a Good Example to the World •
- It Is Best to Live in Morality •
- Rinpoche's Online Advice Book: The Power of Dharma Practice •
By Lama Thubten Yeshe in Cumbria, England
In this teaching Lama Yeshe discusses the fundamentals of karma, the actions of body, speech and mind.
Topics: Path to Enlightenment (lam-rim) > Karma > Understanding Karma
By Lama Thubten Yeshe in Chenrezig Institute, Australia
An introductory teaching on karma given by Lama Yeshe, who explains that every action—positive or negative, good or bad—produces an appropriate result.
Topics: Path to Enlightenment (lam-rim) > Karma
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kopan Monastery, Kathmandu, Nepal
In this excerpt from Kopan Course No. 27 in 1994, Rinpoche explains that if the cause is not created, the result cannot be experienced.
Topics: Path to Enlightenment (lam-rim) > Karma
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kathmandu, Nepal
A strong understanding of karma gives energy to the mind and increases the fear of creating negative karma
Topics: Path to Enlightenment (lam-rim) > Karma
By Lama Thubten Yeshe in Ibiza, Spain
A teaching on karma, the law of cause and effect, and emptiness, the ultimate nature of reality.
Topics: Path to Enlightenment (lam-rim) > Karma
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kopan Monastery, Nepal
When we practice thought training, experiencing problems becomes a cause for finishing the results of negative karma
Topics: Path to Enlightenment (lam-rim) > Karma
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in San Francisco
To eliminate suffering and obtain happiness, the most important thing is to have a good heart
Topics: Path to Enlightenment (lam-rim) > Karma
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Maitreya Instituut, Emst, Netherlands
Teachings on karma, excerpted from a lam-rim course led by Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche at Maitreya Instituut, Emst, in August 1990.
Topics: Path to Enlightenment (lam-rim) > Karma
Chapters:
The Negative Karma of Killing •
The Results of Karma •
Karma in Everyday Life •
Karmic Appearance •
The Four Suffering Results of Negative Karma •
Heresy and Other Religions •
The Benefits of Understanding Karma •
Purification of Negative Karma •
Renouncing the Self-cherishing Thought •
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche in Kopan Monastery, Nepal
The karmic results of nonvirtuous actions are experienced in this life or in future lives, unless we purify the negative karma.
Topics: Path to Enlightenment (lam-rim) > Karma
By Kyabje Lama Zopa Rinpoche
Excerpt from an edited compilation of Rinpoche's teachings on the subject of karma.
Topics: Path to Enlightenment (lam-rim) > Karma
Chapters:
The Importance of Understanding Karma •
What Karma Is •
The Four Outlines •
The Four Suffering Results •
Lama Zopa Rinpoche's Online Advice Book
- Habituated in Nonvirtue •
- Sexual Misconduct •
- Profiting from Selling Alcohol •
