Karma - If only I had the choice…

An online course taught by Buddhist teacher Jeff Simm

We all try to plan for our future and if we choose wisely we can prepare some security for ourselves. But even if we accumulated great wealth there is no guarantee it would bring real happiness or fewer problems. While we can provide for the outer quality of our life, we leave the most important thing to chance – our own experiences.

But imagine if by taking some steps now we could be confident of finding peace and happiness in the future – would we miss this opportunity?

Buddha gives us both the motivation and the method to make this happen. Without these we will have little choice over our future experiences. We even find it hard to explain where the present ones have come from.

Buddha tells us everything has causes. Nothing is random or determined by fate. Even our own experiences are the effects of their own causes. These are inner causes - our intentions and actions. This is “karma” which means “cause and effect” in another language. It is scientific thinking. By changing our thoughts and actions now, we create positive results in the future. We start to build our own store of inner wealth.

This course will help us to create the real causes of our own future welfare. We can discover we have the freedom to change our experience of the world and ourselves for the better.