Speaker:  Robert Tomic (In Person)
Wed 2 Oct | 7-8.30pm AEST
Location: In person at Western Sydney University, Parramatta City Campus (Entry at 1 Parramatta Square), Level 3 Room PC-01.3.82; or Online (Zoom link below)
Cost: Free

In popular culture, karma is often portrayed as something bad happening to someone in retribution for an action they have done. The truth is that everything we do, good or bad, is the karmic consequence of previous actions – actions in body, speech, and mind.

By understanding the Buddha’s teachings on cause and effect, we can begin to understand why we are the way we are. A preoccupation with external priorities misleads us into believing that other people and other things have more importance over our own personal existence. This can lead to an extreme feeling of inferiority and loss of validation on the one hand, and narcissism and self-importance on the other hand, both of which are two extremes of a single misunderstanding.

The advantage of understanding how karma operates is that it gives us an option as to what we wish to do. Clearly seeing that we are, and always have been, responsible for all our actions, we now can have control over future circumstances should they come about.

Understanding the law of cause and effect brings us happiness in that it empowers us to recognise our latent abilities and thereby not waste our life in some meaningless way. Secondly, understanding the law of cause and effect allows us to deepen our faith in the Buddha’s teachings and trust that we are following a genuine spiritual friend.

Finally, being consciously responsible for our actions will help us to master one of the most difficult practices there is: being mindful of what we say in public and being mindful of what we think in private.

In conjunction with this talk, there will be a Chenrezig purification practice to help us integrate our understanding of what has been said.

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