Transcript The Winning Life - SGI-USA South Bay Community Center

The Winning Life
An Introduction to Buddhist Practice
The Process
Eternity of Life
Everything we’ve done until this moment
adds up to who we are. This is the law of
cause and effect in action, this is Karma.
Eternity of Life
Karma is like a bank for our thoughts, deeds,
and actions (causes) until, when our lives
meet the right environmental conditions, we
experience the results (effect).
Eternity of Life
So when we are reborn, we still face the same
problems or karma from causes we have
made. This goes a long way to explaining why
people are born under such different
circumstances -- in other words, why people
have different karma.
Eternity of Life
This principle of cause and effect suggests we
can change our karma or destiny that we may
have thought unchangeable. This is the great
hope and promise offered by Buddhist practice.
The Oneness of Life
and Its Environment
The effects of one’s
karma, both good and
bad, manifest themselves
both in one’s self and in
the environment, because
these are two integral
phases of the same entity.