Understanding the Law of Karma

All of the specific declarations in that teaching rest on the framework of understanding the law of karma. This principle, this understanding is so fundamental and far-reaching. It was emphasized over and over again by the Buddha and by many great enlightened beings up until the present. His Holiness the Dalai Lama said something very interesting in one discussion. He said if He had to choose and speaking to people between emphasizing emptiness, which is such an essential principle of the Buddhist teaching, and karma, He would emphasize the law of Karma. Because it's easy to get lost in a philosophical abstraction of emptiness or attachment to some concept.