jim_flanegin wrote: > I'd like to hear your definition of Buddha. > Which Buddha?
The historical Buddha taught causation. The Buddhist teaching on karma is entailed in the Buddha's sermon on the 'Second Watch of the Night' when the Gotama described his attainment of enlightenment. In the 'First Watch of the Night' he had attained knowledge of rebirth, but in the second he attained a different kind of knowledge, the knowledge of karma, the natural law of cause and effect - natural law. According to the Buddhist records the historical Buddha is supposed to have said: "With the heavenly eye, purified and beyond the range of human vision, I saw how beings vanish and come to be again. I saw high and low, brilliant and insignificant, and how each obtained according to his karma, a favorable or painful rebirth" (55). Works cited: 'The Historical Buddha' By H.W. Shumann Arkana, 1989
