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Tonight karma one of the foundations of Buddhist thought and one of probably the most misunderstood

is a teaching that has just been so diluted by loose references and culture.

People use the word karma to mean pretty much anything and everything.

I'm going to sort of sidle in to this talk by noting that there's a deep seated belief in our culture,

courtesy of the fact that we believe that feelings are secondary to our intellect, that it's our reasoning, our logic, make us so specifically

human and are so responsible for our well-being.

The feelings are evolutionary byproducts

that we have to live with but disregard and that people are better off when they are

entirely logical and disregard how they feel. Well that's not really actually at all possible and it's also very important in general to understand how central feelings are.

And to the choices we make and to our behaviors,

we like to believe that we're rational beings

only occasionally interrupted by our emotions and feelings, but actually, but just consider

thirst hunger.

These are feeling states that provide essential information about how our bodies are

doing and they focus our attention on solutions they motivate actions

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