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Podcast: Buddhism for Everyone with JoAnn Fox
Episode: Episode 38 - Actions Create Self
Description: The word "karma" literally means action. Fundamentally, Buddha explained that karma is the law of cause and effect; from actions of our body, speech and mind come results. Yet it is not as simple as saying that from an action of giving comes the result that others will give to us in the future. That will happen, but that action of generosity also changes us. Our actions condition us, shape us, and create our future personality, body, and the environment we will live in. Actions not only affect others, they affect the agent. Modern science reiterates this truth through...