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HOW KARMA WORKS: The Twelve Links of Dependent-Arising
by Geshe Sonam Rinchen
We all want to find happiness and be free from suffering. Happiness comes from positive mental states and actions and suffering from the opposite. The twelve-part process of dependent arising shows how actions underlain by ignorance propel us from one rebirth into another, keeping us trapped in suffering, and how through understanding reality correctly we can break this cycle. The twelve links that make up this chain of causes and effects are an extension of the four noble truths, the heart of the Buddha's teaching, and demonstrate in particular the connection between true suffering and true sources of suffering. This oral teaching by Geshe Sonam Rinchen is based on the Rice Seedling Sutra and the twenty-sixth chapter of Nagarjuna's Treatise on the Middle Way.
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EVERLASTING RAIN OF NECTAR
by Jampa Gyatso Geshe
Explains the theoretical basis of purification--the cause and effect principle of karma--which will allow us to achieve happiness.
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THE MEANING OF LIFE: Buddhist Perspectives on Cause and Effect
by H.H. the Dalai Lama, trans. & ed. by Jeffrey Hopkins
Basing his explanation on the twelve links of dependent-arising as depicted in the Wheel of Life, the Dalai Lama presents Buddhism's worldview while answering some of life's most profound questions: Why are we here? How should we live our lives?
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LEAVES OF THE HEAVEN TREE: The Great Compassion of the Buddha
by Padma Chophel, K. Semendra
Treasured by all Buddhist traditions, these 108 teachings on karma both delight and instruct, illuminatihg every gesture we make and every action we perform. Springing forth like leaves from the tree of enlightened knowledge, they reveal precisely which actions lead to freedom and which enmesh us in suffering. Seated beneath the Bodhi Tree at the time of enlightenment, the Buddha saw clearly how each action arises, matures, and creates the conditions for future actions, producing cycles of suffering or opening opportunities for realization. When his disciples asked why certain things happened, he showed the link between past and present by recounting his own previous lives and those of his disciples. Anyone who reads and remembers his compassionate words today can learn to protect the mind from suffering and awaken the heart of wisdom.
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NECKLACE OF GOOD FORTUNE
by Geshe Lam Rim
This wonderful text by Geshe Lam Rim propounds the Buddhist theory of Karma and past and future lives, presented in a lucid and concise manner.
This spiritual and political testimony was composed by this eminent Geshe in Tibet during the upheaval and multiple tragedies of the Cultural Revolution, when religion in all its forms was under presecution.
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FAMILY AND DHARMA, Teaching
by Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche
In this world of existence, there are many different forms of birth. Among all of these, that which is most difficult to obtain, and that which is the most precious if put to proper use, is undoubtedly birth as a human being. Obtaining a human birth does not come about by sheer chance. It is the result and the reflection of a great deal of positive and wholesome actions in the past. With such a karmic accumulation, we experience birth as a human being.
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SECRET BEYOND THOUGHT: The Five Chakras and the Four Karmas
by Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche
Potent presentation of the five chakras (form, speech, consciousness, quality and activity) which are present in everything and referred to in the tantric teachings as the secret which is beyond the measure of thoughts and lies hidden in everyday life. The four karmas are: pacifying, enriching, magnetizing, and destroying.
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BUDDHIST CONDUCT: The Ten Virtuous Actions
by Thrangu Rinpoche
This book is an extensive examination of how Buddhists of all traditions should conduct themselves as well as guidelines for determining if an action will lead to a positive or negative karmic result.
Rinpoche explains the ten virtuous actions, which have two aspects: Avoiding the ten unvirtuous actions and engaging in the special practices which are their opposites. He also explains how certain actions lead to negative karma using the four fundamental conditions of: object, intention, the action itself, and the completed action.
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KING UDRAYANA AND THE WHEEL OF LIFE
by Sermey Geshe Lobsang Tharchin
Explained in detail is the extensive symbolism contained in the wheel of life (Tibetan: Sipai khorlo).
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THE WHEEL OF LIFE
by Kulananda
The Wheel of Life is a graphic representation of the Buddhist understanding of life's processes, a mirror held up to us to help us fathom the depths of our suffering and predicament. Within it we see the forces that bind us and the ephemeral happiness and suffering that we create. We see how the forces interdependently act to drive the karmic process.
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