Questions tagged [karma]
For questions about ethically potent action (karma) and its effects.
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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
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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?
For ...
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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 ...
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Judges passing the death sentence
The Yodhajiva Sutta tells the story of a warrior who thought that brave warriors who fought valiantly and died heroically on the battlefield, would go to warrior heavan. The Buddha disappointed him by ...
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How to avoid poorness?
There are many, considering themselves even as "Buddhist" who would not give much toward Monks and Priests, yet reminded by the Sublime Buddha talk:
"There is the case where a woman or man is not a ...
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No more kamma and vipaka for Noble Ones?
There is a (are) person(s) here, who advocate the denying of "person is heir of his action", advocate no-self, for whom who has reached the path already (Sekha).
In that case, do, and why, make ...
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Wholesome is absence of passion?
A person told here, that wholesome (kusala) means absence of passion (desire, will..., raga, lobha, chanda...).
Is that right? If, why. Is it wrong? If, why?
No need to have passion to answer the ...
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If there be no soul or transmigrating entity that takes rebirth, who or what bears or enjoys the consequences or fruits of karma?
How can a religion or school of thought justify or rationalise the proposal that potential suffering could be inflicted on a subsequent rebirth - to all intents and purposes, a new individual, ...
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Does the actions of one's ancestors pass down?
I want to know whether the action of ancestors will be pass down to their children in the form of karma?..
A father's decision can affect his children like father quitting his job and staying at home ...
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Morally unwholesome deeds knowing the consequences but without unwholesome intentions
As far as I understand (of course I may be wrong), every act done voluntarily is born from some specific kind of intentions, and according to the nature of that intention, the act can contribute to ...
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Do we “deserve” our bad fortune?
If I recall correctly, the term karma is used to explain the concept of dependent origination and how one thing leads to another, consequently creating every event that happens in our lives. It is ...
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Who or what creats a realm of existance? [closed]
What or who is the cause that a realm of existance comes into being?
Or is such accidentally? Or an unconditioned phenomena? A material-alone phenomena?
What causes your world you "be", have "been", ...
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Whatever bad deed done with this deed-born body is all to be experienced here
In the context of the sutta below, what does the following phrase mean? - "whatever bad deed I did here in the past with this deed-born body is all to be experienced here. It will not follow along" (...
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What is the process for cleansing a very negative action?
Several years ago I did something that was totally legal, but very much against my upbringing, my world-view, and my ethics. It was a spur of the moment thing and I have regretted it massively ever ...
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Buddhist thought on Amends
Did the Buddha address the idea of making amends for past wrongs? I understand that we really only have the present moment in which karma is made, and where past karma manifests. But say one was a ...
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Taking Vinaya as a measure of the weight of kamma?
Some Brahmans, strangely those learning Abhidhamma and give into meditation, draw excuses of deeds and weight of kamma from the Vinaya, arguing that a lesser transgression must be lighter kamma. Is ...
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My job requires me to shuck oysters
I am not necessarily Buddhist but I am a vegan and killing doesn't sit well with me. I have suffered terrible sleep condition over the past 2 years and can't work in my field anymore and have no ...
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Is Enlightment ultimatelly up to you (Karma and Freewill)?
According to the traditional Buddhist dogma the fourth noble truth or eight-fold path is the way to attain Enlightenment then again some sects in Buddhism accept karma as a factor.
Not knowing (gnosis)...
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Desperate for help about intent and my fears
I am hoping for help as I’m feeling really horrible right now. I’m not a Buddhist but I have OCD (Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder) that is focussed on religion. I am sorry for such a long post but I don’...
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What if there is no rebirth but karma is not eradicated by meditation and the path?
What if there is no rebirth but karma is not eradicated by the path?
I think that would mean that the agent experiences the results of their actions even without rebirth. Am I right? At least if the ...
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The kamma of silence and/or “not acting”?
Aside of Silas there is the matter of kamma which includes always the mind.
What's the impact of acting "political correct" or "according to laws", Sila, while having unskilful intentions?
Whould ...
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Why is “idle speech” one of the ten unwholesome actions?
According to the Suttas, "idle speech" is one of the ten unwholesome actions which generate bad karma. I understand why the other nine unwholesome actions would generate bad karma, but I have a lot of ...
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Is Karma part of Dharma? In other terms, is Karma a subset of Dharma?
As per title.
I read the English translation of the heart sutra recently.If Karma is part of the Dharma, or is the Dharma, does this mean that Karma is not created or destroyed, and it neither ...
