karma Flashcards
Erriker: ‘the importance of karma is that…
it demonstrates the practicality of Buddhist teachings. Ethical considerations become paramount’
Erriker: ‘the Buddha’s view…
rooted in karma in the process of rebirth’
Keown: ‘for buddhism it is possible to…
sin in ones heart without the physical act’
Keown: ‘unintentional acts are…
karmically neutral’
Burton: ‘personal identity… is to be understood as the…
continuation of complex casual processes rather than the never ending existence of an unchanging substance’
Buddhas and arhats being exceptions to karma: ‘the exception made in their case is because…
they are delivered from both good and evil; they have eradicated ignorance and craving, the roots of karma’
Majjhima Nikaya: ‘from the coming…
to be of that, this arises’
Samyutta Nikaya: ‘According to the seed…
that’s sown,
So is the fruit you reap there from,
Doer of good will gather good,
Doer of evil, evil reaps
Dhammapada: ‘karma is…
action, and Vipaka, fruit or result, is its reaction’
Dhammapada pairs: ‘If with an impure mind…
a person speaks or acts, suffering follows him like the wheel that follows the foot of the ox’/ ‘if with a pure mind a person speaks or acts, happiness follows him like his never-departing shadow’
Dhammapada pairs: ‘Just as rain breaks through…
an ill-thatched house, so does passion penetrate a undeveloped mind’/ ‘Just as rain does not break through a well-thatched house, so does passion never penetrate a well-developed mind.’
Dhammapada: ‘Hatred is never…
appeased by hatred in this world. By non-hatred alone is hatred appeased.’
Dhammapada: ‘No harm comes to…
him who does no harm.’
Sutta Nipata: ‘Destroyed are their…
germinal seeds; selfish desires no longer grow’
Gombrich: ‘The Buddha defined karma as…
intention…. The focus of interest shifted from physical action, involving people and objects in the real world, to psychological processes.’
