Questions tagged [karma]
For questions about ethically potent action (karma) and its effects.
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Reason of pandemics
According to the theory of karma,an individual receives the punishment for one's past deeds.Now my question is the whole world is going through a massive unprecedented time,not only corona but severe ...
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Cause and effect
Buddha said that every living creature is subject to cause and effect.My question is what were we paying for in our first life?Well let me put forward like this,the first living creature after the ...
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How important is patience in buddhism?
I've heard that patience has a big place in Buddhism. It is especially very important for monks. I can think two ways of patience.
When we get angry, we have to have patience to avoid bad ...
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Where does Karma get stored?
Sometimes we get an instant Karma. In other cases it takes time for Karmic fruits to ripen. I want to know in later case where does the Karma get stored or how is it remembered.
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Does 'karma' mean that everything that happens to us is under our control, or only that we are responsible for it?
Does 'karma' mean that everything that happens to us is under our control, or only that we are responsible for it? I thought that only substantial beings could be completely in control of everything ...
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The Buddha and the Cycle of Life
What is the source of the cycle of life/death in the scripture , Does it have references in the Pali canon? Is the cycle itself introduced with Buddhism or came from other sources?
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Why are they called “old kamma”?
The sutta below states that eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body and mind are old kamma.
Why are these called old kamma (purāṇakammā)?
Is it because of rebirth? Or could there be other reasons?
If rebirth ...
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Do any Buddhists say that everyone's Buddha nature repeats an infinite number of times?
Do any Buddhists say that everyone's Buddha nature repeats an infinite number of times? To be specific, I mean that everyone's -- including Sakyamuni's -- life, or perhaps just karma, is repeated over ...
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Today, I killed
At work, a tiny little flying insect landed on my desk. At first I thought he was dead because he wasn’t moving, so I gently pushed him to see if he reacted, and he moved so I left him alone. Some ...
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Is karma of arms giving depends on the reciever?
Consider the following situation
There are two people. One of them is enlightened. Other one is not. If I gave something to them equally without knowing anything about them, Are there any deference ...
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Does everything that happens to me happens because of me? [closed]
I always wonder that my self. People scam me because I am not wise.
What happened?
Is there always something I did that causes that? How do I know that?
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Shouldn't we care only “What I think” instead of “What I + Others think”?
Our own thoughts make something wholesome or unwholesome. Not what other's think. So, is there a need to care about what others think regarding a certain thing?
We can do good for others, but they ...
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Unintentionally killing insects when playing sports and running
I jog everyday and teach children how to play basketball. There are some insects on the path where I jog and on the basketball court, and I’m sure we unintentionally kill a few of them. We live in a ...
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How to experience Karma?
Today I realize that , If something good or bad happen to me is caused by Karma. It gave me a huge relief. Because,Before I got aversion when something bad happen to me. But now, I believe that I am ...
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Is better sati cause to better memory?
Did Lord Buddha tell something about this ? (Relationship between sati and memory)
There was a monk in Buddha's time who is enlightened but didn't have a strong memory. To be enlightened, some has ...
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How bad is the karma of feeding meat to your children?
I have a girlfriend who has a daughter from another man. If I raise this kid not vegetarian, will that be bad karma? Her mother is an omnivore and the kid is being raised in an omnivore household. It ...
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Animals and morality
I'm thinking a lot about the animal issue right now, and a question came to me. Are the five precepts universal? If so, are animals required to respect them? If not, what morals must animals follow? ...
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Things that I have pirated in the past
Ever since I was a kid I have pirated and bought illegal copies of many different kind of media such as music, movies, video games and softwares.
Now as an adult do I have to pay for all these ...
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Oral sex and semen swallowing
My girlfriend does oral sex and she likes to swallow my sperm during sex. Will these activities violate any precep?
Will swallowing of semen violate the no killing precet and are sperm cells ...
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How things become easier when we do things continuously / repeatedly?
What are habits, and why do they stick? Lord Buddha said that we even bring habits into next lives. Why does that happen? How come it is powerful enough to continue from life to life?
There are some ...
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Is the Dhamma objective?
Does the Dhamma allow the philosophical establishment of an objective and/or universal morality without God?
If yes, how?
Do all beings intuitively know what is right and what is wrong deep within ...
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Dhamma - one law, two paths?
I was having a debate with a follower of another faith, and during it, this quandary came to me:
Did the Buddha describe one law for sentient beings - that is, the law of intentional action? (I ...
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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.
