Ep. 144 – The Law of Karma

Insight Hour with Joseph Goldstein

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Joseph Goldstein, Mindfulness, Vipassana, Buddhism, Insightmeditation, Meditation, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality

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🗓️ 8 December 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Joseph Goldstein takes a deep dive into the law of karma, how it affects us in our practice and daily lives, and how can we apply it in a way that it becomes the condition for our happiness.

This dharma talk from November 11, 2003, at the Insight Meditation Society, was originally published on Dharma Seed.

“So we can see these are karmic results of one thing or another coming as impressions in the mind. But when we bring awareness to them, when we bring a certain compassionate understanding, then our practice becomes a great purifying process.” – Joseph Goldstein

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0:00.0	We can understand that all situations have causes and conditions behind them.
0:13.0	This is what the law of karma is saying.
0:16.0	Everything is arising out of causes and conditions,
0:21.0	including our own past actions.
0:25.0	Our own past actions are part of the causes and conditions which bring about results. Welcome to the Joseph Goldstein Inside Hour.
0:50.0	This podcast is an expression of our shared interest in self-discovery.
0:57.0	Join Joseph as he shares his deep knowledge of the path of mindfulness.
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1:20.0	There are two overarching principles or perspectives in Buddhism that illuminate this question.
1:30.0	And these two principles also provide a bridge between our deepening meditative insights
1:39.8	and our lives in the world. The two principles involved, the teachings on
1:48.8	emptiness and the teachings on the law of karma.
1:54.0	These are the most basic aspects of the Buddhist teachings.
2:00.0	Sometimes questions arise about how they fit together.
2:07.5	You know, if everything is empty,
2:09.9	what does it matter what I do?
2:19.9	And some weeks ago, there was some questions that came up in the morning, quite vividly put, you know, if I murder somebody mindfully, is it okay?
2:25.0	While we come to understand through our practice is that even as we realize the
2:41.0	insubstantial empty of self nature of all experience.
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