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Pema Chodron: Non-Meditation and Natural Wakefulness
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Tibetan Buddhist Companion Very Good Book |  |
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1975 Tibetan Buddhist Chant Kaufman 1st Ed Book | |
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The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying Sogyal Rinpoche Buddhism Buddhist Book | |
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Tibetan Book Yoga Ancient Buddhist Teachings on the Philosophy Michael Roach | |
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Tibetan Buddhist Organizations NEW by Books LLC | |
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TIBET BUDDHISM 11 BOOKs TIBETAN BUDDHIST TEACHING DALAI LAMA MEDITATION ZEN | |
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Scarce illustrated book of essays on Tibetan Buddha Buddhist art and culture | |
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The Tibetan Book of Yoga Ancient Buddhist Teachings on | |
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Portraits of Tibetan Buddhist Masters Book | Don Farber HB NEW 0520239733 WLY | |
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antique tibetan buddhist prayer book cover jade buckle | |
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Can anyone offer some clarity about Karma?
The popular western idea of Karma that I hear very often, refers to it as a case of everything good or bad that you have done will come back to you in some way. But when I read the Buddhist version in "Tibetan Book on Living and Dying", they explain it as your life issues and problems reoccurring until you learn to resolve them.
I wonder if the popular western concept of Karma could be a case of unconsciously projecting the Christian belief of 'repenting for your sins' onto a popular Eastern idea.
What do you think?
Good morning, That Guy.
This is how the Buddha answers the question of karma and where it leads both in past lives and in the future.
"The well-instructed disciple of the noble ones..... attends appropriately, This is stress... This is the origination of stress... This is the cessation of stress... This is the way leading to the cessation of stress. As he attends appropriately in this way, three fetters are abandoned in him: identity-view, doubt, and grasping at precepts and practices.
"... This is how he attends inappropriately: 'Was I in the past? Was I not in the past? What was I in the past? How was I in the past? Having been what, what was I in the past? Shall I be in the future? Shall I not be in the future? What shall I be in the future? How shall I be in the future? Having been what, what shall I be in the future?' Or else he is inwardly perplexed about the immediate present: 'Am I? Am I not? What am I? How am I? Where has this being come from? Where is it bound?'
"As he attends inappropriately in this way, one of six kinds of view arises in him: The view I have a self arises in him as true and established, or the view I have no self... or the view It is precisely by means of self that I perceive self... or the view It is precisely by means of self that I perceive not-self... or the view It is precisely by means of not-self that I perceive self arises in him as true and established, or else he has a view like this: This very self of mine — the knower that is sensitive here and there to the ripening of good and bad actions — is the self of mine that is constant, everlasting, eternal, not subject to change, and will endure as long as eternity. This is called a thicket of views, a wilderness of views, a contortion of views, a writhing of views, a fetter of views. Bound by a fetter of views, ...he is not freed, I tell you, from suffering and stress." (from the Sabbasava Sutta [MN 2] : All the Fermentations)
How does it relate to the Christian concept of repentance? Personally, I don't believe it does since one is based upon an eternal Self while the other denies a permanence of Self. To me, karma is real and has an effect. To others it does not. Ultimately in Buddhism, as I understand and in my practice, it's where you are now that matters the most.
May all be at peace.
John
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