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Ethan Nichtern on Karma and the Past

By Ethan Nichtern — 2015

In this brief excerpt from the live-online course Understanding Karma and Transforming Habitual Patterns, IDP Founder and Teacher Ethan Nichtern counterbalances the emphasis that much of contemporary Buddhism's places on the present moment by explaining how our past experiences - or karma -... See more...

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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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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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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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The Astrology of Fate

Why has the concept of fate become so offensive to the modern Western reader? Why does it imply for us a lack of free will, a loss of control, a sense of powerlessness, humiliation and impotence? Why has the meaning of fate become so disconnected from its sister concept, karma? In this masterwork...

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Liz Greene
1984
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Our Human Potential: The Unassailable Path of Love, Compassion, and Meditation

When His Holiness the Dalai Lama gave a series of lectures at Harvard University, they fulfilled magnificently his intention of providing an in-depth introduction to Buddhist theory and practice.

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The Dalai Lama
2019
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Karma Theory

It is one of the peculiar characteristics of Jainism, which is elaborately discussed. The theory of karma is nothing but the theory of causation, the law of moral causation. Nothing happens without a cause.

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JAINA
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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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Happiness in Your Life—Book One: Karma

Karma is a word often thought to mean a curse on people who do bad things, or a comfort to people who do good things and are yet to see any reward. Karma, however, is not a punishment and reward system. It is instead, based on understanding.

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Doe Zantamata
2012
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Origin & Development of Karma Doctrine in Hinduism

The purpose of this essay is to explain some of the earliest Vedic beliefs and concepts associated with the doctrine of karma and how they developed into our current knowledge of the law of karma in Hinduism.

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Jayaram V
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