Gelek Rimpoche de-mystifies karma, explaining the natural relationship between cause and result, and empowering us to take responsibility to bring about positive change in our lives.

Does karma leave any room for self-determination, or are we totally at the mercy of fate? Does personal responsibility exist, or is even that an illusion? These are questions rising when discussing karma.

Gelek Rinpoche, using four different characteristics explains how the law of karma works within the individual. In that, the part that ego plays, and our habitual patterns are central issues, rendering the key to freedom from (pre)determination.

The theme is clarified by lovely stories from the Indian and Tibetan tradition.

Karma - Actions and Their Consequences, Gelek Rinpoche, Jewel Heart, Paperback, 88 pages, $15.00

Gelek Rimpoche (1939-2017) is considered to be one of the great Tibetan Buddhist masters and scholars of the 20th and 21st Centuries who came to the West and taught in English. Born in Lhasa, Tibet, in 1939, Kyabje Gelek Rimpoche was recognized as an incarnate lama at the age of four. Carefully tutored from an early age by some of Tibet�s greatest living masters, Rimpoche gained renown for his powers of memory, intellectual judgment and penetrating insight. As a small child living in a monk�s cell in a country with no electricity or running water, and little news of the outside world, he had scoured the pictures of torn copies of Life Magazine for anything he could gather about America. Among the last generation of lamas educated in Drepung Monastery before the Communist Chinese invasion of Tibet, Gelek Rimpoche was forced to flee to India in 1959. He later edited and printed over 170 volumes of rare Tibetan manuscripts that would have otherwise been lost to humanity. Rimpoche was also instrumental in forming organizations that would share the great wisdom of Tibet with the outside world. In this and other ways, he played a crucial role in the survival of Tibetan Buddhism.