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What’s in a Word? Samsara

By Andrew Olendzki — 2019

Our expert explains the etymology of samsara.

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What Do Buddhists Believe Happens After Death?

Simply the mind continues, because as we’ve discussed in previous times, the mind is a stream of awareness which is not generated from physical causes.

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2019
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The Experience of Insight: A Simple and Direct Guide to Buddhist Meditation

This modern spiritual classic, presented as a thirty-day meditation retreat taught by Joseph Goldstein, offers timeless practical instructions and real-world advice for practicing meditation—whether walking or sitting in formal practice or engaging in everyday life.

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Joseph Goldstein, Ram Dass (introduction)
2020
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From Death to Birth: Understanding Karma and Reincarnation

For most of us, the journey of the soul from death to birth is determined mainly by our karma―the actions we perform in the interval between birth and death.

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Pandit Rajmani Tigunait
1997
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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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The Big Book of Reincarnation: Examining the Evidence that We Have All Lived Before

In The Big Book of Reincarnation, Roy Stemman attempts to answer one of the big questions of existence: Is death the end? Or, is it the merely the end of a chapter in the book of existence? A self-described “skeptical believer,” Stemman uses his skills as a professional journalist to perform...

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Roy Stemman
2012
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The Problem of Rebirth

A discussion of rebirth with regard to the spiritual evolution of humanity, and of karma and the concepts of freedom, justice, will, and consequence as part of a wider understanding of karma.

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Sri Aurobindo
2025
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