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| Six Ways to Create Good Karma ["deeds that will bear fruit"] (Power of Positivity.com) |
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| Mexican-American monk in LA |
Happy birthday, Ayya Soma (BuddhistInsights.org)!
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- Nico Zheng: βMe, too
- Roy D'Souza:βπ
- Geetha Gnana β: πππ
- Rick Thorn: βGreetings from Indiana, USA. π
- Dennise Guzman β: Hello, friends!
- Nico Zheng β: Hello from California
- Suzanne Boyle: βMetta to you all β€
- Jayantha Fernando β: Good evening
- Gurgel Segrillo β: Warm greetings from Ireland πππΌ
- Elaine Saunders: Hello, everyone!
- Lucas Gialluisi β: Sadhu, Sadhu, Sadhu!
- Anthony Hessling: βWho enforces karma?
- Suzanne Boyle β: How do you know when you are experiencing the unfortunate results [vipaka and phala] of your actions, and when it is just...life?
- Suzanne Boyle β: And then how do you know what you did wrong if you didn't have ill intent?
- Dennise Guzman β: So is kamma [karma] related to the asavas [biases, underlying tendencies, cankers]? I understood that the asavas were biases in the mind that come from prior existences that influence our actions/intentions.
- pete: βIs there a difference between karma as "intention" and "action"? Or is intention considered an action?
- Marielle Tejada β: Good evening!
- Anthony Hessling β: How is it decided whether your actions [karma] result in good or bad karma [vipaka]?
- Anthony Hessling β: By the question I was more asking, Does it [karma] enforce itself?
- Geetha Gnana β: Our past kamma [karma] maturing along with our past habit energies mature in this lifetime that may cause some suffering, how can one navigate skillfully with mindfulness as not to get involved, or create any...
- Geetha Gnana β: new negative states of mind?
- Anthony Hessling: βLike who decides if my action was good or bad or neutral so which karma I deserve?
- Amaranta Arcadia Castillo GΓ³mez β: Can you, please, write the suttas [sutras, discourses] mentioned by the venerable? Thank you! π
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- Amaranta Arcadia Castillo GΓ³mez β: Thank you, Bhante!
- Aaron Ball β: π
- Gurgel Segrillo:β ππΌ
- Puthrika Moonesinghe: βGood morning! Good evening! Venerables
- Marielle Tejada β: In times in the past where I would ask why was I experiencing something, I can now see that it wasn't simply karma what I was paying. Sometimes it was a lack of self-empowerment and autonomy to
- Marielle Tejada β: realize that I had the ability to remove myself from certain situations and away from certain people
- Marielle Tejada: βSometimes, it simply was a lack of responsibility for my own life
- No Identity: βGood evening, Venerables. I worked in healthcare taking care of severely developmentally disabled patients. They are completely dependent on the caregivers. Is this a result of previous karma?
- Rick Thorn β: Alcoholism, addiction, and physical, emotional, and sexual abuse on children can have negative effects on multiple generations...
- Rick Thorn β: However, just one family member living the Buddha's Path can positively impact the whole family and positively help future generations. Is this related to karma?
- Geetha Gnana: βWe are most grateful for the opportunity to offer the food (dana) to our Maha Sangha πππ
- Rick Thorn β: Is there a type of collective karma? Groups of people can get whipped up into a frenzy, doing together that which they would not have done on their own.
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- Geetha Gnana β: Thank you all, Venerables, for sharing Dhamma [Dharma] wisdom and answering all our questions πππ
- Rick Thorn β: Thank you, Venerables, for your teachings and for offering these online opportunities. They are of great benefit. πππ
- Elaine Saunders: βSadhu sadhu sadhu! May all blessings be yours, Venerables.
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- Aaron Ball β: Sadhu, sadhu, sadhu
- Rick Thorn: βWhat are the most skillful means to generate wholesome karma? Generosity, practicing sila [virtue], learning, and practicing the Dhamma, [Dharma] helping others...?
- Dennise Guzman β: Are Arahants [fully enlightened beings] exempt from the Law of Karma? [Yes, they only generate kriya, "simple action, which does not bear results."]
- Aaron Ball: βπ
- Rick Thorn β: Venerables, thank you for your powerful teachings.
- Geetha Gnana β: πππ
- Amaranta Arcadia Castillo GΓ³mez β: Thank you, Bhantes, for your teachings and your time πππππππ·π·π·
- Rick Thorn β: Sadhu, Sadhu, Sadhu πππ
- Amaranta Arcadia Castillo GΓ³mez: βKilling our parents
- Amaranta Arcadia Castillo GΓ³mez: βπ
- Marielle Tejada: βI send a bunch of hugs your way from the Dominican Republic ππΌππΌππΌ
- Dennise Guzman: Thank you, Ayya!
- Aaron Ball β: Sadhu Sadhu Sadhu
- Dennise Guzman β: Dominicana: libre y soberana!
- Roy D'Souza: βπππ
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