Audio recorded at Buddha House Adelaide. Transcript auto-generated and AI-corrected; may contain errors.
About this talk. In this 7-minute teaching, Geshe Dhawa Gyaltsen explains how karma multiplies by comparing internal and external laws of cause and effect. The example: one small fruit seed grows into branches, leaves, and produces many fruits, year after year. One negative action similarly confines you to lower realms for a long time; one positive action elevates you to a universal king with sustained happiness. He then teaches the practical path: purifying past negative karma that hasn’t ripened yet, making firm determination not to repeat harmful actions, and understanding Buddha’s teaching that negative karma can be removed through practice. The logic: if positive actions yield results, then purification must also work.
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File: 12 GP 1996 03 03.mp3
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Teacher: Geshe Dhawa Gyaltsen
Collection: Graduated Path (Geshe Dhawa Gyaltsen)
Date: 1996-03-03
Recorded at: Buddha House Adelaide
Duration: 7.4 minutes
Words: ~379
Next is. So for ten minutes, if you have any questions. So, this part also we’ll explain next. And, let’s say, we’ll give an example that with the internal cause and effect and the internal law of causes, law of karma, and the external law of karma, the If you compare these two, internal law of karma, the what is it? The multiplication of internal law of karma is much much greater than the external one.
So how karma multiplies as an example with the external law of karma is that, for example, if you plant a fruit seed, seed of a fruit tree, you plant one small fruit seed which then brings gives it a rise to the plant, branch, leaves, and fruit. And how many, once a year or twice a year, how many fruits can produce. So that’s in that that’s still with example how come like can it be the many, what’s the result or how how it can multiply. So not only that but then next year, another year can continue with that. So similarly, one negative action can cause one to remain in the lower level for a very long period of time.
Negative And similarly, one virtuous action can also cause one to take the form of the universal king and experience the pleasure at that stage for a very long period of time. So, yeah, that’s how it multiplies or increases. On this case, we will also explain more in next time. So, like, purifying those karmas that you have collected in the past, those which haven’t had happened. So those are ones which you can purify and then also like not to do those actions again, making that determination.
So so because if one performs the purification practice, then the negative karma can be removed. And it’s because that is what Buddha taught. Buddha taught that if you do positive actions, which is karma, you will achieve high reward. And and if you do purification, yeah, karma can be purified. Maybe karma can be purified.
This both are taught by Buddha. So if one part is true, then this other part like purification. If you do purification then it should be also true that the karma will be removed. Anymore? Oh.