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Originally Posted by lemex
Very well put. I have never heard consciousness put this way in discussing its role in karma. Is this a traditional or nontraditional view?
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It's the Buddhist teaching on Kamma and rebirth. Gotama the Buddha said Kamma is the volition and the teachings on kamma rest on that premise. Hence Buddhist teachings, at least Gotama's teachings, on Kamma are about volition.
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Can consciousness change karma in a moment? We are talking about awareness, enlightenment, awakening.
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In order to look into 'what is' it is necessary to stop trying to make it 'as you want it to be'. Thus the volition ceases when one 'sees it as it is', and that's liberation from 'cycle of rebirth'. This basically means that what we now call 'the ego', the false sense of self, ceases, and it wont be 'reborn'... at least, not as 'you'. In that sense, it's entirely momentary, but the potentials of past volition/kamma still have manifest to conscious awareness, so 'life goes on' as it were.
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If you wish to call these balance, ok. As you know karma ends, is consciousness at that level?
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