war-on-karma_geoff.md

title	authors	external_url	drive_links	formats	course	tags	year	month	minutes
The War on Karma	geoff	https://www.dharmaseed.org/talks/5979/	https://drive.google.com/file/d/1bZb8_fSP2lXQ2BDoKV70OSg5OI8rP8hX/view?usp=drive_link	mp3	thought	karma west origination	2006	feb	79

One of the main paradoxes of Buddhism's coming to the West is that the teaching on karma, which in Asia is probably the most basic Buddhist teaching, is the one most Westerns don't like and is most often dropped from the teaching one way or another.

This lecture describes the various ways karma has been misunderstood in the West and how a close reading of the Buddha's words correct such views.