RINPOCHES FULL TEACHING ON KARMA & THE
IMPORTANCE OF PURIFICATION PRACTICES.
"Everyone wants happiness and does not want suffering
and problems. We know this Is true. So in order to find
happiness and avoid suffering, we should learn about
those factors that bring happiness, so we can practice
them, and those factors that bring about suffering, so
we can avoid them.
Whatever suffering that happens has a principal cause
and conditions. Correct feng-shui is an external
condition that contributes to achieving harmony and
success. On the other hand, incorrect feng-shui is an
external environmental condition that disturbs and
brings is harmony. The way the elements of the
environment are arranged - whether inside the house, the
house itself, things outside, the location, the
surroundings, the buildings, and so forth. These things
can either be harmful or disturbing to you, or they can
be harmonious, and contribute to your peace and success.
Good feng-shui can help in
many ways. It can contribute to harmony in the
family; good relationships between husbands and wives;
wealth and prosperity; education and learning; good
family reputation; being able to find friends; health
and long life; finding a good job and developing a good
career; clarity of mind and good meditation. Good
feng-shui can benefit the family as a whole and bring
great benefits to all family members. Therefore, I think
it is especially important when one is building a new
house to build according to feng-shui so that harmony is
handed down for as many years as the house will last. In
this way all the people who will live in the house in
the future will receive great benefits for all those
years.
Even though feng-shui
can help in many ways for many years, still, feng-shui
is not the main cause of all success and happiness in
life. The main cause of all success and happiness in
life is your own mind. In other words, the main cause of
all life success and happiness is good karma, a
positive, pure, healthy intention, a peaceful attitude
toward life, the nature of which is non-attachment,
non-ignorance, non-hatred and non-self centered mind.
What is karma
To begin, there are the body and the mind. Within the
mind there are six consciousness
and five mental factors.
The 5 mental factors: contact, feeling,
discernment, intention, and apprehension.
The five mental factors ascertaining the object :
aspiration, appreciation, recollection, concentration,
intelligence
The six root afflictions:
attachment, anger, pride, ignorance, afflicted views,
doubt
The eleven virtuous mental factors: faith,
self-respect, consideration for others, detachment,
non-hatred, non-bewilderment, enthusiasm, suppleness,
conscientiousness, equanimity, and non- aggression
The twenty non-virtuous mental
factors: wrath, vengeance, spite, envy, cruelty,
avarice, self-satisfaction, excitement, concealment,
dullness, faithlessness, laziness, forgetfulness,
inattentiveness, pretension, dishonesty, shamelessness,
inconsideration for others, unconscientiousness,
distraction
The four variable mental
factors: sleep, regret, general examination, and
precise analysis
The definition of karma is: the thought
called intention (one of
the 5 accompanying all mental factors) that accompanies
the principal consciousness. This refers to the thought that arises,
accompanies, and functions with the principal
consciousness and which has the five similarities of
object, aspect, duration, substance, and basis.
From the five all accompanying mental factors,
karma is the mental factor intention (Tib.
sems pa). Karma is the principal cause which is the
sentient beings - mind that produces happiness and
suffering. Lets take growing things as an example
plants, fruit, beautiful flowers. Even though these
things came from the external physical cause of the seed
planted in the ground, there must be a reason why all
these exist and grow, why they - including their seeds,
the physical causes - are happening. There is a reason.
The reason is that there is an inner
cause. The minds of those sentient beings who
perceive and enjoy those plants, fruit, and flowers are
the inner cause. The enjoyment experienced in the minds
of those sentient beings comes from their own good
karma. Their good karma is the inner
cause.
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