Karma and Rebirth in Theravada Buddhism Part 2 of 8

[loki00700]

Buddhism is a distorted view of vedic teachings and in truth it is crap

[keeyk118b]

i know of a woman whose husband is a serial adulterer yet claimed he was told by a high level monk she wronged him in previous lives and she is now paying off her karmic debt. she consulted another monk who said she did not wrong him at all in any previous lives.

[20053633]

@keeyk118b They weren't monks, let alone 'high level'.

[FeelGoodinc91]

'If you've existed for infinity, then you have infinite good bad and neutral karma. This means there's nothing you can do to "attain" nibbana

[BrianRuhe]

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[bardarians]

Plain and simple; Karma is speculation.

[DreamsofMajesty]

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[jityr2]

I hate it when the audio is out of sync with the video.

[SriSatchitananda]

Nibbana is not a place. One does not "reach" it one realizes it. One should not expect to have to live billions of lives. The Buddha taught that our Awakening can happen IN THSI LIFE. You are too influenced by Hinduism and Mahayana. Stay with the Tipitaka.

[Frogstomp121]

I don't believe that anything in heaven is forced onto us, not even reincarnation.

I know I was very strong-willed in my last life, pushing ahead with my ideas regardless of other's reservations. I looked down upon weak people and did not care for them. This life I chose under my own free will to be born shy and weakened, because I felt obligated to see life from this angle to right the wrongs I made out of ignorance. Heaven is total unconditional love and acceptance.

[wadok1942]

If we apply infinity to any condition, then all things, including enlightenments, are infinite. That is, given any part of this universe experiencing time without end implies that all things experience all conditions.

[BrianRuhe]

Thanks Matteded. Yes, Schopenhauer was perhaps the first great Western thinker to introduce and promote Buddhism about two centuries ago. Thanks for that reference!

-Brian Ruhe

[Matteded]

I think you might be interested in Schopenhauer's idea of "eternal justice." It's found in the final section of his _The World as Will and Representation_. It's the best explanation of karma I've ever read, though he doesn't use the word.