12-10-2018, 02:23 AM
here's an example of how karma works according to buddhist point if view.
it is a story about Sariputra, who saw a layman sitting in front of his house, eating a fish from the pond behind the house, holding his son in his lap. the dog was eating the fishbones and the man kicks the dog. with his clairvoyance Sariputra saw the law of karma in action so he comments:
“He eats his father’s flesh and kicks his mother away,
The enemy he killed he dandles on his lap,
The wife is gnawing at her husband’s bones,
Samsara can be such a farce.“
this is an example of how we stray away by karma.
our attachments, aversions, ignorance, biases and predispositions, positive or negative deeds all take part in molding our karma and, eventually, determine our next reborn, which can be anywhere in samsara. if we made lots of evil deeds then we gonna be reborn in hell realms, if we make lots of good ones then we will go in gods realm. the idea in buddhism is: 1. to realize true nature of things so you exhaust karma and no longer reborn meaninglessly and endlessly in samsara and 2. to use this realization in helping others out of samsara. in Tibetan buddhism they make boddhisattva vow - that is that you'll stay in samsara as long as it takes to liberate all sentient beings. to me this is obviously service-to-others path.
in regard that buddhism doesn't really recognize the soul that’s not the case from what i understand. what they say is our true self is not our ego. ego dies. our true self does not and it is our true self what reincarnates. the problem is that we doesn’t recognize our true self mistakenly thinking that it is our ego, our personality. Hatonn put it very clearly as well: “personality is an illusory self”. Tibetan master of meditation can say: “because i no longer am, i am everybody, i am everything”.
it is a story about Sariputra, who saw a layman sitting in front of his house, eating a fish from the pond behind the house, holding his son in his lap. the dog was eating the fishbones and the man kicks the dog. with his clairvoyance Sariputra saw the law of karma in action so he comments:
“He eats his father’s flesh and kicks his mother away,
The enemy he killed he dandles on his lap,
The wife is gnawing at her husband’s bones,
Samsara can be such a farce.“
this is an example of how we stray away by karma.
our attachments, aversions, ignorance, biases and predispositions, positive or negative deeds all take part in molding our karma and, eventually, determine our next reborn, which can be anywhere in samsara. if we made lots of evil deeds then we gonna be reborn in hell realms, if we make lots of good ones then we will go in gods realm. the idea in buddhism is: 1. to realize true nature of things so you exhaust karma and no longer reborn meaninglessly and endlessly in samsara and 2. to use this realization in helping others out of samsara. in Tibetan buddhism they make boddhisattva vow - that is that you'll stay in samsara as long as it takes to liberate all sentient beings. to me this is obviously service-to-others path.
in regard that buddhism doesn't really recognize the soul that’s not the case from what i understand. what they say is our true self is not our ego. ego dies. our true self does not and it is our true self what reincarnates. the problem is that we doesn’t recognize our true self mistakenly thinking that it is our ego, our personality. Hatonn put it very clearly as well: “personality is an illusory self”. Tibetan master of meditation can say: “because i no longer am, i am everybody, i am everything”.