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Cause and Effect: Reflecting on the Law of Karma

By Joseph Goldstein

Karma, the action of body, speech, and mind, affects every aspect of our life. Actions affect both doers and those around them in unimaginable ways, and the seeds of karma shape our lives and our worlds, though different Buddhist traditions give different weight to whether the action is willed or not.

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Re-Fleshing Mindfulness with Buddhism, Dr. Miles Neale

Often, when teaching a new idea or practice, it helps to try to boil it down to its essentials. Getting to the pith of things is very important and being able to do so in a way that reaches and sticks with others is a sign of genius.

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Justin Whitaker
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Mindfulness and Buddhism: An Interview with Dr. Miles Neale

How can Buddhism and mindfulness help people?

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Jonathan S. Kaplan
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Frozen Yoga and McMindfulness: Miles Neale on the Mainstreaming of Contemplative Religious Practices

Danny Fisher in conversation with Buddhist psychotherapist and meditation teacher Miles Neale about the mainstreaming of mindfulness practice.

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Danny Fisher
2010
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Continuing Thay’s Teachings

Meet eight of Thich Nhat Hanh’s students who are now teachers themselves. In their own unique ways, they’re helping to carry his dharma into the future.

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Peggy Rowe Ward, Larry Ward, Joseph Emet, Sister Chan Khong, Gail Silver, Brother Phap Hai, Mitchell Ratner, Zachiah Murray, Annabelle Zinser
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Pushing Past Tokenism

La Sarmiento has been a leader of American LGBTQ and people-of-color Buddhist communities for close to a decade. I caught up with the trans, queer Filipino teacher before a silent retreat to discuss the dynamics of race and gender in a world that is typically White, cisgender and straight.

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Miriam Zoila Pérez
2016
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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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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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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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