The good news is that right here, right now, we have agency: we can purify negative karma and build on positive karma.| Mindworks Meditation & Buddhist Path
The three turnings exemplify the many skillful means with which the Buddha taught and serve to clarify and categorize the Buddha’s teachings.| Mindworks Meditation & Buddhist Path
Karma is intentional actions and their consequences. This creates mental imprints on how we perceive, and react to events in a certain way.| Mindworks Meditation & Buddhist Path
Mahayana Buddhism describes three types of motivation, or 3 vehicles, which transport us from where we are right now to where we’d like to be.| Mindworks Meditation & Buddhist Path
The 8-fold path begins with the idea that we can come to a deeper understanding of the true nature of our lives and of the world around us.| Mindworks Meditation & Buddhist Path
Emptiness in Buddhism is the teaching that things are empty of self-existence. All that we perceive is dependent on us, the perceiver.| Mindworks Meditation & Buddhist Path
In prajñā or Buddhist wisdom there are two things to know: the nature of the so-called self and the nature of the other, subject and object.| Mindworks Meditation & Buddhist Path
When we’re able to stay in the present with mindfulness, our awareness begins to open up and we can transition to vipashyana meditation.| Mindworks Meditation & Buddhist Path