Question about karma (in Buddhism)

[sentient]

If everything is in a constant state of flux (as in …. anything can be anything at any time) - how can habitual patterns and attitudes of the mind (the past) be a guide to that which spontaneously arises?

Aren’t habitual attitudes or preconceived attitudes more about the nature of ego and the ego’s struggle to maintain itself?
I.e. efforts to make the “self”, the sense of meeeee as something ‘solid’.

Rather than trying to create good karma or avoid bad karma ….. what about transcending karma all together on the spot through situation plays (displays of 'what is').

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[sentient]

Originally Posted by Busby

It's worth pointing out - as this seems to have slipped through our minds - that who you are at this moment, where you are at this moment, how you are at this moment both in physical form and in mental presence is a result of everything that has ever happened in your collective environment(s) (family, village, town, country and planet) in relation to your conscious partaking of this thing we call life.

All that has ever been is at this moment at its zenith. You and the trees and the grass and your dog and your bicycle. They are in the now all the result of everything.

There cannot be various sorts of karma, whether Buddhist or anything else. The proof lies in the now pudding and the pudding permanently resides in the now.

If you want to improve your lot then make a firm start now, but don't forget you need to do it with the rest of everything.

The processes and procedures we call karma have another - let's say more modern word - Evolution.

I at least imagine of getting your drift.

The nature of ‘the all-pervasive dance of interconnected energies’ and the Taoist notion of the Inward Alchemy comes to mind.

We are slowly being cooked by our Karma.

If that makes sense.

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[Gem]

Originally Posted by 7luminaries

Gem...very nice explanation.

But to this, I would note that the addition of lovingkindness from a place of equanimity surely can't hurt anything -- can it? -- and may help (to alleviate suffering and add to the balance of well-being in the world).

Lovingkindness simply for its own sake, that is, and not with any specific intent save one...in support of the highest good of each one equally to all, and of all equally to each one.

Peace & blessings
7L

The concept of metta In Buddhism is a deep philosophy, but primarily it is the underlying wish that all living things be happy. The other wishes to hurt, harm, undermine and otherwise generate misery are all regarded as ill-intent. If we contextualise that not with good intent, but with a notion of pure intent, then we either have pure intent or tarnished intent and the absence if ill-will is the same as good-will - or what we might call free of impurity or defilement. This is because in the core of us is an everlasting outpouring of pure love that inspires the wish for the happiness of all beings, and that deep aspect is not of our volition. It is non-volitional by nature - and 'just Is.' Thus, all ill-will is generated through a false sense of self enlivened by aversions and desires and such reactivity. The ability to observe sans reactivity is the essence of the purification process simply because that's a pure observation or pure awareness, and in the absence of aversion/reaction there is no ill-will. Hence loving kindness is endemic of our nature, and ill-will but a false illusion generated by our desires for, and aversion toward, our own sensations.

[sentient]

Does this make sense?

Isn’t Karma about being caught in a Wheel?

The cosmic ballet around a still centre - the Pole Star:
https://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012...62_964x613.jpg

From the net:

The root of Karma is the mind.

So do your dance, but let your mind be upon the Divine Witness.

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[JustBe]

Originally Posted by Gem

The concept of metta In Buddhism is a deep philosophy, but primarily it is the underlying wish that all living things be happy. The other wishes to hurt, harm, undermine and otherwise generate misery are all regarded as ill-intent. If we contextualise that not with good intent, but with a notion of pure intent, then we either have pure intent or tarnished intent and the absence if ill-will is the same as good-will - or what we might call free of impurity or defilement. This is because in the core of us is an everlasting outpouring of pure love that inspires the wish for the happiness of all beings, and that deep aspect is not of our volition. It is non-volitional by nature - and 'just Is.' Thus, all ill-will is generated through a false sense of self enlivened by aversions and desires and such reactivity. The ability to observe sans reactivity is the essence of the purification process simply because that's a pure observation or pure awareness, and in the absence of aversion/reaction there is no ill-will. Hence loving kindness is endemic of our nature, and ill-will but a false illusion generated by our desires for, and aversion toward, our own sensations.

In many ways your showing quite clearly that when everything you seek to make be outwardly, is generated from a place of mindful conscious awareness as yourself, then it is not about being anything or ‘needing’ to be for others. The centre of our being or the true self becomes its own presence quite naturally and spontaneously as ‘it is’, as things are. The action becomes what just is, as you are open and aware of as yourself. What you are as your true nature.

This is how I see it all now. This is how I live it.

[Gem]

Originally Posted by JustBe

In many ways your showing quite clearly that when everything you seek to make be outwardly, is generated from a place of mindful conscious awareness as yourself, then it is not about being anything or ‘needing’ to be for others. The centre of our being or the true self becomes its own presence quite naturally and spontaneously as ‘it is’, as things are. The action becomes what just is, as you are open and aware of as yourself. What you are as your true nature.

This is how I see it all now. This is how I live it.

I learned Buddhist philosophy as the philosophy behind the meditation. Like, the phiiosophy explains why the meditation is done in the way it is done. As the meditation becomes more refined and subtle, the meaning of the philosophy becomes more nuanced. Buddhist dhamma integrates practice and philosophy and by meditating you understand philosophy and by understanding philosophy you are enabled in meditation. As such, the philosophy and the practice aren't seen as separate things but as aspects of the same thing. This is why I rarely paste quotes from Buddhist literature and prefer to let things come out by way of conversation.


Here I'm not trying to reach an ultimate truth - people can notice in themselves their craving for knowledge - and I'm only saying what people already know because we are aware of this experience as it is here and now. Complete certainty of the conscious awareness that 'this' is the way it is.


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[Busby]

Originally Posted by sky123

In Buddhism Evolution and Karma are very different, you can find plenty of Buddha's Teachings regarding Karma to understand the difference Neil.

There are many versions of karma and the Buddhist one I know.

Not as I see it. There is no other way to look at the workings of karma other than to look at the now. The karma which you and I have accrued during this life time will give a result and this result will mirror in the now. This will again be you (and me of course) being someone, somewhere, somehow, in a form and having been affected by all that has ever happened.

[jonesboy]

When you act with intent you create karma. Karma is the ongoing cause and effect of that intent. Works sort of like the law of motion in physics... A body in motion stays in motion...

[Busby]

Originally Posted by jonesboy

When you act with intent you create karma. Karma is the ongoing cause and effect of that intent. Works sort of like the law of motion in physics... A body in motion stays in motion...

Not quite.

Everything creates karma in the world in which we live. Even a falling leaf is to be taken into account.

[bahruddinkhan]

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