Venerable Robina Returns to teach Karma: We Create Our Own Reality
Dharmakaya Center is honored to host Venerable Robina again.
Venerable Robina will be teaching Karma: We Create Our Own Reality
on Wednesdays, February 1st, 8th and 15th.
(This event is being held using the Zoom Online platform. Please go to www.dharmakayacenter.com to register for one or more of the teachings. Once you have completed the TicketTailor registration you will receive a Zoom link for the session you registered for.)
WE CREATE OUR OWN REALITY: THE NATURAL LAW OF KARMA
We spend our lives being seduced by the outside world, believing utterly that happiness and suffering come from "out there." Even more fundamental than that, we assume that we are the handiwork of someone else, either a superior being or our parents. The experiential implications of this are blame, anger, and guilt, bringing ever-deepening levels of suffering and hopelessness.
Buddha’s view of reality is that we create ourselves: we come into this life at the first moment of conception in our mother’s womb fully programmed with our own tendencies and the seeds of our experiences in this life. As the Dalai Lama says, the view of karma is one of “self-creation.” We are, literally, the creators of our lives, our happiness, and our suffering. We are the boss.
With this view we realize that everything we experience is our own "karmic appearance," as Lama Zopa Rinpoche puts it. Everything is made by our own minds, in the past and in the present.
The experiential implication of this view is empowerment, accountability, and the courage to change and, combining it with an understanding of the Buddha’s model of the mind, we gradually loosen the grip of ego-grasping and the other neuroses, thus developing our marvellous potential for clarity, self-confidence, empathy and the other qualities that Buddha says are at the core of our being.
And there is no negative karma that we can’t change, so we’ll also discuss the practice of purification, which Lama Zopa Rinpoche says “we’re insane not to do every day.” And as Lama Yeshe says, “We create negative karma with our minds and we purify it by creating positive karma with our minds.”
Venerable Robina will be teaching Karma: We Create Our Own Reality
on Wednesdays, February 1st, 8th and 15th.
(This event is being held using the Zoom Online platform. Please go to www.dharmakayacenter.com to register for one or more of the teachings. Once you have completed the TicketTailor registration you will receive a Zoom link for the session you registered for.)
WE CREATE OUR OWN REALITY: THE NATURAL LAW OF KARMA
We spend our lives being seduced by the outside world, believing utterly that happiness and suffering come from "out there." Even more fundamental than that, we assume that we are the handiwork of someone else, either a superior being or our parents. The experiential implications of this are blame, anger, and guilt, bringing ever-deepening levels of suffering and hopelessness.
Buddha’s view of reality is that we create ourselves: we come into this life at the first moment of conception in our mother’s womb fully programmed with our own tendencies and the seeds of our experiences in this life. As the Dalai Lama says, the view of karma is one of “self-creation.” We are, literally, the creators of our lives, our happiness, and our suffering. We are the boss.
With this view we realize that everything we experience is our own "karmic appearance," as Lama Zopa Rinpoche puts it. Everything is made by our own minds, in the past and in the present.
The experiential implication of this view is empowerment, accountability, and the courage to change and, combining it with an understanding of the Buddha’s model of the mind, we gradually loosen the grip of ego-grasping and the other neuroses, thus developing our marvellous potential for clarity, self-confidence, empathy and the other qualities that Buddha says are at the core of our being.
And there is no negative karma that we can’t change, so we’ll also discuss the practice of purification, which Lama Zopa Rinpoche says “we’re insane not to do every day.” And as Lama Yeshe says, “We create negative karma with our minds and we purify it by creating positive karma with our minds.”
