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02 Exploring Buddhism: The Mind, Rebirth, and Karma 06-22-16

2016

Venerable Thubten Chodron explores core Buddhist concepts of rebirth and karma with the young adults.

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Karma

Karma has become a household word in the modern world, where it is associated with the belief in rebirth determined by one’s deeds in earlier lives. This belief was and is widespread in the Indian subcontinent as is the word “karma” itself.

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Johannes Bronkhorst
2011
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The Future Is Open: Good Karma, Bad Karma, and Beyond Karma

Karma has become a popular term in the West, often connected with somewhat naive or deterministic ideas of rebirth and reincarnation or equated with views of morality and guilt. Chögyam Trungpa unpacks this intriguing but misunderstood topic.

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Chögyam Trungpa
2018
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Karma Doesn’t Work How Most People Think It Does

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

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Paul Ratner
2020
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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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Your Conscience: The Key to Unlock Limitless Wisdom and Creativity and Solve All of Life’s Challenges

The book offers a straightforward explanation of the four functions of the mind, according to the ancient wisdom of Yoga Science: the senses, ego, unconscious mind, and the Conscience. Readers are taught how—and why—to coordinate these four functions in order to live the joyful life we all long for.

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Leonard Perlmutter, Jenness Perlmutter
2021
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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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Karma: A Yogi’s Guide to Crafting Your Destiny

A new perspective on the overused and misunderstood concept of “karma” that offers the key to happiness and enlightenment, from the world-renowned spiritual master Sadhguru. What is karma? Most people understand karma as a balance sheet of good and bad deeds, virtues and sins.

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Sadhguru
2025
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The Tibetan Book of the Dead: The Great Liberation through Hearing in the Bardo (Shambhala Pocket Library)

A classic of Tibetan Buddhism brought to life with insightful commentary by a modern master.

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Francesca Fremantle (translator), Chögyam Trungpa (translator)
2019
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Healing America’s Racial Karma

More than 150 years after the end of slavery, America’s tragic racial karma rolls on. If we understand how karma really works, says Buddhist teacher Larry Ward, we can stop it.

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Larry Ward
2021
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Karma: What It Is, What It Isn't, Why It Matters

A master of Tibetan Buddhism cuts through prevalent misconceptions around karma and rebirth to get to the root cause of our suffering—and how we can end it The Buddha’s teaching on karma (literally, “action”) is nothing other than his compassionate explanation of the way things are: our...

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Traleg Kyabgon
2015
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