Hello!
Now I will like to tell you the Third Thought that Turns Your Mind.
And this is what we call karma.
To understand the meaning of karma,
At first you understand the precious human life,
Second, you understand the impermanence.
The impermanence, the main emphasis about is changing
everything is changing. Your life is also changing.
You are impermanent.
And specially we focus on the impermanence of death, dying
I think death is very very important,
because, if you try to ignore the death,
If you try to run from the death.
And you'll have more fear about death.
If you face to the death,
and learn about death, is nice.
You can learn many things from death.
In Tibetan Buddhist practice what we call: "Death is not death,
death is opportunity".
Even you can practice while you are death,
or while you are dying.
The death really helps you to liberate from samsara,
It may become cause to become enlightenment.
But even though, you are not facing the death,
I'm not saying commit suicide, ok?
Don't misunderstand.
Commit suicide is not good.
But natural death is good.
But even you develop fear of death, it really helps.
For example:
If you have fear of death. Let's say, if you are going to die tomorrow.
Then you don't have all the negative emotions, negative thoughts.
What you think is more to the positive.
You are not going to regret that: "I'm not enough get harm to other people!"
You don't have the regret: "I am not steal something"
"I'm not famous enough"
"I'm not making money enough"
"I'm not aggressive enough"
You don't think this too much...
And you look for the meaning of life.
"Oh, What have I done?"
Is there anything I did in the past which is meaningful?
Your mind automatically become more compassion.
More looking for positive direction.
The power of death.
In Tibet many people, try to develop fear of death:
They say: "If I have fear of death, that is all".
I don't have any good qualities, but
just little bit fear of death, that's all.
We focus about death.
But, then what happen after death?
So, that now, karma is explaining
after death is not just nothing.
Not just like black whole.
As I mentioned before: "Death is not death",
Death is changing your body,
your state of mind to another possibility, to another life.
How to say...
Is transition.
After death, what happens?
Then, what we call Karma.
Karma means the positive interdependent connections.
If you do something good, result will good.
If you do something bad, result will be bad.
What is good and bad?
For the general, good means to help others.
You become cause to help others.
Bad means, harm to others.
You become cause to harm to others.
And these are what we call, good karma and bad karma.
And result of good karma is happiness.
Result of bad karma is suffering.
And the result, how soon?
Sometimes it'll come in this life,
And sometimes, next life.
Sometimes comes many, many, lives after lives.
So is a long process. Its continue.
But the mind never dies.
as well the continuation of the body, also never dies.
That is what we call "Body and mind always goes together".
Like a cup and the water in the cup.
When you die, you will leave this body.
but you will have "Bardo body" and then "Next life body".
As body change, the state of mind also changes.
Its continue.
How this process work?
Because of the karma
there is interdependence. Cause and result.
And all the necessary causes and conditions together, you will have result.
Result always come from causes and conditions.
So, if you understand this,
Then you will search for
liberate from these causes and conditions
which is produced by suffering, the samsara circle, circle, circle.
If you break that, and want to be free.
and also you understand that
if you understand all the causes and conditions together, understand many things.
Your mind not become narrow.
Normally we only see one direction,
one possibility.
Your mind cannot become open.
Completely close.
But if you understand karma, then you'll see the many possibilities.
You not only seeing one hand, right hand, or left hand.
Only seeing nose, only heart.
In order to have full body, you need to have all these comes together.
This way, these interdependence, that is karma.
And then you have function, and you'll have result.
This way the causes and conditions, that is the meaning of karma.