REBIRTH Rebirth refers to a person’s mind taking one body after the other. Our body and our mind are separate entities. The body is matter and is made of atmos. The mind refers to all of our emotional and cognitive experiences, and is formless. When the body and mind are linked, we are alive, but at death, they separate. The body becomes a corpse, and the mind continues on to take another body. Each moment of mind is a continuation of the previous...

KARMA What is Meditation? Meditation is habituating ourselves with positive, constructive and realistic attitudes.It building  up good habits of the mind. Meditation is not sitting in the full - Vajra position, with an arrow-straight back and a holly expression on our face. Mediation is done by mind. Even if the body is in perfect position, if the mind is running wild and thinking about objects of attachment, that is not mediation.  With...

KARMA IMPERMANENCE, DEATH, AND SUFFERING The purpose of contemplating impermanence, death, Suffering is not to become depressed and have the joy taken out of life. The purpose is to rid ourselves of attachment and false expectations. If we contemplate these things in such a way that we get emotionally afraid or depressed, then we are not contemplating in the right way. Rather, such subjects should make our mind calm and more lucid as the confusion caused...

KARMA WHY ARE SOME PEOPLE WHO COMMIT MANY NEGATIVE ACTIONS SUCCESSFUL AND APPEAR TO BE HAPPY? When we see dishonest people having wealth or cruel people receiving respect and power, or kind people being robbed or dying young, we may doubt the law of cause and effect. This is because we are only looking at what is happening in the short period of time of this one life. Many of the results we experience in this life are results of actions created in...

KARMA HOW CAN WE PURIFY NEGATIVE IMPRINTS? Purification by means of the four opponent powers is very important. It not only Prevent  Future suffering, but also relieves the guilt or the heavy feeling we experience now. By cleansing our mind, we are able to understand the dharma better, and we are more peaceful and can concentrate better.  The four opponent powers used to purify negative or seeds are  1-Regret 2-Determination not to do...

KARMA WHY SUFFERING OCCUR? HOW TO STOP SUFFERING? Suffering occurs simply because the causes for it exist: afflictive emotions- Ignorance, attachment, anger and so on- and the actions we motivated by these misconception such as killing, stealing, lying by developing the wisdom realizing selflessness, we stop the cause of our problem. Then the pain results cannot fallow. And instead we can abide in a state of lasting happiness or nirvana. ...

KARMA People suffer Due To Negative Actions, It doesn't mean That We Are Helpless. Not at all! We know what it is like to feel miserable, and that is exactly how another person who is experiencing the results of his own destructive actions feels. Out of empathy and compassion, we should definitely help! That person’s present predicament was caused by his/her own actions, but that does not mean that we stand by and relax say, “oh that’s too bad. You...