To me, the meaning of karma is not about good or bad. Also It is not about what happened in the past or will happen in the future. The idea of karma is to look and understand our personality, learning about our personality , how it is built up, how it is, how we can shape it. The fear of karma and all the fuss about it is quite useless.
Karma is more like an example that permits us to understand ourselves, to change and improve our lives. At the end karma is all about us, it’s about improving and facing our responsibility on this planet !
Again with your simplicity and truthfulness.
I like to think of Karma as energy where it was last left, or being moved. You say it so perfectly here. thank you.
Muito verdade querido Kaluzinho .
Gratidão por relembrar para nós !
Carinho , se cuide bem !
Thank you so much, Rinpoche!
Alsolutely yes!
You’ve given me what I desperately need now.
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Wishing you a very happy day
I have never heard karma expressed exactly like that, but it makes a great deal of sense. Thanks.
Thank you so much, Rinpoche!
Alsolutely yes!
You’ve given me what I desperately need now.
Wishing you a very happy day
Interesting spin! To me karma means action (harmful or helpful) and does include past and future. Old saying: if you want to know where you were in the past, look at your present body and life (the results of the past). If you want to know where you will be in the future, look at your actions in the present. So the present holds it all and it is up to us to act helpfully so we do not harm ourselves and others. But yes, no fear invlolved (except to regret our past negative actions and purify them). Since we are in control of our actions, no fear needed.
Thank you Rinpoche for this teaching and for the wisdom of all your teachings – and even more importantly what you teach when you are not teaching but just being you.
Thank you for this. It totally makes sense!!!
Yes, we all need to improve ourselves and strengthen what is good in us. The road is often a stony one, and surprises that arrive are so completely beyond any control. So, I visualize waves, and the real difficulties that I’ve live through are somehow like riding a tsunami wave. I do my best to keep my balance, and breathe deeply as I ride my imaginary wave towards an imaginary welcoming shore ! Optimism is essential. Often hard to remain so, look up at the sky and rejoice !
Dear Kalu, don’t you think that understanding Karma as the law of cause & effect can’t be useful to improve our responsability ?
with much love
It is important to not change the definition of words in the Communication cycle or words become even more meaningless. You got it right when you said to be careful or concerned or aware of the result. Most people agree that nothing happens without a cause, that was the basic assertion of Nagarjuna. Of course the understanding of Karma is to mold a better “person” or “personality” although cause and effect is also the apparent basis of the physical universe and all scientific models. On the Path, in what appears, the basic definition and understanding of Karma is very important. That why it is in the 4 Thoughts that turn the mind to Wisdom Dharma.
When you say karma is ” to look and understand our personality, how it is built up, how we can shape it,” do you mean we need to look and understand how perception works so we can understand why we want and don’t want stuff? Which in turn causes us to feel in ways that drives our emotions and actions.
I sometimes think of karma as where ignorance and appearances meet! We innately, unconsciously, impute inherent existence and we don’t experience the nature of mind….sigh… although it is beautiful here in so.cal nonetheless.
I like that approach! I have always seen karma, as a statement of reality and it is easy to translate that into fear about karma, rather than a tool. Thank You!
Dear Kalu,
I have listened to various teachings about karma over the years. Your comments provide a different perspective and one easier to practice when we think it’s all about building character through the process of accepting responsibility and being accountable for our actions.
Dear Kalu I have practiced as a Core Process Buddhist psychotherapist and trainer for over twenty years at the Karuna Institute in the United Kingdom. Your understanding and explanation of karma is how I have practiced with my clients and students and has been powerfully transformative. For me it’s about self responsibility and working with integrating the relative and the absolute to bring about liberation in the present.Thank you from my heart for your deep words of wisdom.
love you,follow you,be a good person….
Dear Rinpoche la, lately I have seen some videos on facebook about the invasion of Tibet by China, their violence and the suffering they are going through Tibetan Lamas and people. According to your words we have to face the responsibility in this planet, what can be do about this issue?
Thank you Kalu la, thank you for the best advice ever, delivered in an undestandable, and realistic manner.
Your are the best.