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Karma Doesn’t Work How Most People Think It Does

By Paul Ratner — 2020

Eastern traditions have complex views on how karma affects your life.

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The Buddha’s Baggage Everything You Wanted to Know About Karma But Were Afraid to Ask

Karma and rebirth are often treated as Buddhism’s cultural baggage: a set of Indian beliefs that—either because the Buddha wasn’t thinking carefully, or because his early followers didn’t stay true to his teachings—got mixed up with the dharma even though they don’t fit in with the rest of...

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Thanissaro Bhikkhu
2016
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What’s in a Word? Samsara

Our expert explains the etymology of samsara.

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Andrew Olendzki
2019
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In the Moments of Non-Awakening

Larry Yang takes an honest look at what it means to be a dharma teacher who hasn’t been, and doesn’t imagine ever being, enlightened.

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Larry Yang
2021
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Karma: It’s Not About What We Do.

If karma is truly one of the Buddha’s most important teachings, as he himself repeatedly emphasized, then to follow in his footsteps, we need to be clear about its definition.

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Culadasa, Matthew Immergut
2015
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Buddhism and Karma Introduction to the Buddhist Understanding of Karma

Karma is a word everyone knows, yet few in the West understand what it means. Westerners too often think it means "fate" or is some kind of cosmic justice system. This is not a Buddhist understanding of karma, however.

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Barbara O'Brien
2019
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Karma and Intention

I would like to talk about the Buddhist concept of karma. It is a big topic, and you could spend years talking about it, and decades arguing about it.

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Gil Fronsdal
2006
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Understanding Karma

Reginald A. Ray examines the doctrine of karma, one of the most important yet most misunderstood of all Buddhist teachings.

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Reginald Ray
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