Questions tagged [karma]
For questions about ethically potent action (karma) and its effects.
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What would be the karmic result of worrying?
How come worrying is a bad karma ? Buddha stated that Having a confident mind gives a good rebirth ( in heaven etc.).
Most of the time, I worried about not able to complete a task within the desired ...
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Animals: why did the Buddha remain silent? [closed]
I know there have been discussions about vegetarianism, but my question is not exactly that.
I know that:
The Buddha allowed eating meat for monks, if it is clear that the animal was not killed on ...
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Uncertainty vs Cause and Effect
Isn't uncertainty and cause and effect conflict each other ? Did Lord Buddha teach about uncertainty ? (Ven. Ajahn Brahma thero on uncertainty - Life is a series of unexpected events )
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Difference between Kamma, Kammanto, and Kammanta?
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Hi all, i would like to ask if anyone knows the difference in meaning between these three pali words:
Kamma
Kammanto
Kammanta
What i've found so far
I can see from looking at the pali ...
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What Lord Buddha said about “practicing”?
When we practise some thing, we will get a new skill or improve a current skill. Similar effect happens when we do karma. There is also a result. Is practise another form of karma ?
Is life all about ...
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Is understanding a practice?
Enlightened people doesn't have any desire, because they see impermanence in everything. All the things are useless to them. To achieve enlightenment , one required to practise deattachment, ...
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Must I continue a relationship with my abusive parents?
My parents were physically and mentally abusive to me as a child. As an adult, they have never recognized what they have done to me and even try to guilt me into having a relationship with them that I ...
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What is the difference between the path to nibanna and the path to higher planes?
From what i understand, moha - loba - dosa - ( greed, hatred, attachment, delusion...) are mind qualities and actions that strengthen samsara and are the path to lower rebirth.
The opposite is also ...
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Is procastinating lengthen the samsara?
I know that good or bad karma lengthen the samsara. Similary, Is procastination / laziness lengthen the samsara ?
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Is it a bad heavy karma to criticize or give up your guru?
"However it is said in the Guhyasamaja Root Tantra:"
"If sentient beings commit an action
As grave as the five heinous crimes
He [still] can attain the superior Vajra Vehicle,
But who from within ...
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Can a lay person commit sangha-bedha?(five heinous acts) Anantarika-karma
https://info-buddhism.com/sangha_schism.html
“A bhikkhunī does not split a Community even if she strives for a split. A female trainee does not split a Community. A novice … A female novice … A male ...
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Is there a way to wipe out ones Karma?
I am 34 and I was brought up in this mad rat race of trying to become 'someone' and be somebody successful. I come from a Hindu background and up until I have been introduced to Buddhism I have only ...
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Most frequent realms for post-human rebirth
I read the following extract from the book "The Workings
of Kamma", produced by the Theravada monastery "Pa-Auk Tawya Sayadaw"
Rebirth in the human world is always because of wholesome kamma. None-...
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What arguments are there for “karma” — that the agent inevitably experiences the result of their actions?
There are philosophical arguments for e.g. 'emptiness', as evidenced by it having sections in philosophy encyclopedias. Whether or not you agree with them, probably depends on your language and pre-...
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How could the Buddha know that he had attained enlightenment when he didn't know what it was?
Having learned and gained complete mastery from the two most famous teachers of his time, he decided to apply extreme austerities for some six years. With these skills acquired, driving a powerful ...
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What is the main difference between buddhist and others? [duplicate]
If 2 groups of people are there:
1st group claims to follow and practice teachings given by someone who followed THE 5 PERCEPTS. 2nd group follows and practices the teachings of someone who NEVER ...
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Do visual objects have karma?
According to Nagarjuna, the second causal link (sankhara, motivations)
and the tenth causal link (bhava, gestation) are two karmas through
which sentient beings trigger seven sufferings identified ...
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gratitude towards & repaying the debt to one's parents
Consider these two texts:
https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/kn/iti/iti.4.100-112.than.html
the part that contains:
Mother & father,
compassionate to their family,
are called
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Most beneficial Buddhist organizations and monastic orders?
My understanding is that, in order to hear the correct dhamma, one must hear it from somebody who displays the outward marks of humility, generosity and selflessness. Otherwise, one cannot be sure ...
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Who judges Karma?
I know the Buddhism does not believes in the existence of personal god.But if it is the case that there is no personal God who is capable of interacting with his own creation,then who/how to determine(...
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Where does choice enter into Buddhist practice?
I am curious about what, if anything, gets said, especially those trained a buddhist background.
Personally and currently, I am having the understanding that the ability to say 'no' to the influence ...
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If teacher punishing student is also supposed bad karma?
Either school teacher or Buddhist teacher in monastery, if they would punish their students is also supposed bad karma even if it cause of bad behavior of students?
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Kamma and the Physical [duplicate]
Does kamma bind or work with the physical realm? Such as a tsunami will kill you, but you will also die in such a way due to past kamma?
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What happens if no beings choose to act on one's bad karma?
What happens if no beings choose to act on one's bad karma?
Does one then hallucinate one's bad karma? ( By this I mean i.e. is there experiencing of hallucinations (or illusions) alongside things ...
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Can bad karma be created and paid back in the same lifetime
My father was mentally very unwell. As a result my mother worked to support her children. We grew up embarrassed by my fathers behaviours and effectively excluded him from our lives even though he ...
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Enlightend beings don't make more good or neutral karma?
Does a Buddha or Arahant not make good or neutral karma? If somehow an enlightened one does make karma does it immediately come to a result? Are all the actions enlightened beings do the result(...
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State of mind corrected by anti anxiety or anti depressants
How does karma apply itself to an incarnation with a predisposition to aniexty who acts and reacts differently on no anti depressants , to the same incarnation who is not on mind control drugs.
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What is karma vipaka and its contents?
What are the results of various sins done. I heard that it has various kinds of results we get for sins done.
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Is regret worth?
Today I regret for a sparrow was wandering around running ceiling fan.
Even I had noticed and think to turn it off but I forget.
I don't care if it was my bad karma which is not important than ...
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Through which medium does kammic information travel after the break-up of the body?
If we understand kamma-vipaka as the process of creation and perpetuation of habitual volitional deeds, we can see that, in a living being, there's a medium through which behavioral information is ...
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Can Buddhists make very eccentric vows?
Can Buddhists make very eccentric vows, and in what sense might these affect their karma?
I do believe in karma, in some sense, but am struggling to understand something specific -- and a little ...
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Five tricks to avoid unwholesome kamma
I have heard of five tricks/methods which could be used to avoid performing unwholesome kamma. I can remember three of them precisely. Would like to know all 5 listed in order. One is shifting the ...
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Persevering Through Very Difficult Periods
How do those who have experienced multiple, profound-negative events, and/or long periods of extreme hardship muster up the will to continue on the path, or even to try to live a morally-upright life ...
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irrational fear of hell and damnation and spiralling, please help me?
I've posted on this Q&A site before when my grandmother just passed away, and some of the answers here really helped me feel a lot better and eased my fear enough for me to go back to my normal ...
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Explanation of the six temperaments
Greedy, hating, deluded, faithful, intelligent, speculative
I know they may seem self exploratory on the surface, but I'm looking for an understanding to more properly determine how one is to know ...
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Is it a sin to vacuum cobwebs & ants while cleaning?
I vacuum away cobwebs, ants & any other small insects I find while cleaning the house. My intention is to clean the house but I still feel bad about those insects. And most of the time I don't ...
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AN 4.233 what exactly is the relation between kamma, saṅkhārā?
AN 4.233 sutta passage here in pali + english:
https://notesonthedhamma.blogspot.com/2019/08/an-4233-what-exactly-is-relation.html
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what exactly are those 3 sankharas (bodily, voice, mind)?...
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Intention and Karma
When a text (e.g. Abhidhamma) lists 'wholesome' mental factors, is it meant that these are also likely to produce positive karmic consequences, or that these are just beneficial in general?
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Karma and Contact with Dharma
I'm wondering whether the knowledge of the Buddhist path and participating in it would be the fruition of good karma? I mean, since following this path implies virtue and further good karma, even if ...
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Crippling fear of hellfire &, damnation, please help?
My original belief used to be that as long as you are a decent good person without any intentions to hurt others, you'll be fine. Meaning that no matter what religion you follow, no matter how flawed ...
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Can a Sikh enter a buddhist temple with a turban?
As I went to worship at one of the most famous & sacred temples in Sri Lanka a Sikh person entered with his turban. As per the religious traditions we are not allowed to wear any head coverings ...
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Is kamma the driving force behind dependent origination
I hope someone could help me clarify something about dependent origination, is Kamma the driving force behind dependent origination ?
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Which specific process determines where consciousness will alight?
As the title indicates, I don't know how the mind "picks" which sensation to focus on. Considering the huge amount of sense-data being received by the mind each moment, which condition directs ...
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Is Intention a sankhara?
I would like to know if the following premises are well stated and if their content is true. Also, I'd like to know if the conclusion/answer makes sense:
1) In the aggregates, 'sankhara' are kammic ...
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Is ignorance a kammically active volitional formation, or a kammically passive fruit of past kamma?
As the title indicates, I'm not sure how to classify 'avijja' in Dependent Co-arising:
Is it a volitional formation which produces a certain kind of vipaka, or is it a vipaka in itself?
In Bhikkhu ...
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Acting nice for karma's sake?
If I recall correctly, karma is constituted of two parts - action and intention. Which means if one wishes to "gain" positive karma, one would have to conduct a positive action AND do so with a ...
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Feelings and kamma and sankhara , am I bound for the rest of my life
Are my painful feelings, that I feel now, result of my past kamma (I have for a long period felt extremely painful feelings which I couldn't stop and therefore I am helpless and trapped by them)? Or ...
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Goal of liberation in yoga/meditation - Isn't it Boring?
I see that the goal of yoga/meditation is liberation from the karma and from the birth/death cycle. People say that it is the ultimate happiness forever. But wouldn't that be boring and monotonous if ...
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How should a Buddhist approach honoring parents who abused them?
As a Buddhist, we are called upon to honor our mother and father. However, how should this be applied in a situation where parents were abusive, neglectful, and harmful? When engaging the parents is ...
