ED, Karma covers both material and spiritual worlds. Newton's laws and others define the actions of materials quite well, while karma is the best theory I know regarding life and spirit (or whatever you call why life is so terrible), in contrast to the chaos theory of no rules or laws. There are also others that say God or luck decides everything. If you know of something else better than karma, please let me know. Anthony
--- On Mon, 25/10/10, ED <[email protected]> wrote: th From: ED <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Zen] Zen, Self, I, Me and Mine To: [email protected] Date: Monday, 25 October, 2010, 6:28 AM Definitions of karma: o (Hinduism and Buddhism) the effects of a person's actions that determine his destiny in his next incarnation wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn o Karma (Sanskrit: कर्म , '' "act, action, performance"; Pali: kamma'') in Indian religions is the concept of "action" or "deed", understood as that which causes the entire cycle of cause and effect (i.e., the cycle called saṃsāra) originating in ancient India and treated in Hindu, Jain, Sikh and ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karma o Karma is a concept in Hinduism which explains causality through a system where beneficial effects are derived from past beneficial actions and harmful effects from past harmful actions, creating a system of actions and reactions throughout a souls's reincarnated lives forming a cycle of rebirth. ... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karma_(Hinduism) --- In [email protected], Anthony Wu <wu...@...> wrote: > > No, in Buddhism, karma is your action. Like in Newton's laws, once an action > is done, there is certainly a reaction coming. > You cannot 'surpass' your karma by sitting chan. If that was true, why not > take an easier way of going to church and ask a pedophilic priest to absolve > you? >Anthony Hi JMJM, What is meant by the high-lighted sentence below? Is it a teaching of the Buddha? --ED Hi Ed, That's a description most valuable to the author. What we teach is, through Sitting Chan, as we gradually surpass the three karmic hindrances -- body, mind and spirit -- then we can witness or experience ourselves. Perhaps you have heard the statement about Chan, "It simply could not be described?" :-) JMJM, Like this: http://www.ahastories.com/whenwillibelivin.html ? --ED > Hi Ed, > > Thank you. However, if I may point out... > > Every path is a path. Xin Xin Ming stated well... > > "The way is not hard, if we don't pick or choose.." > > Just live and die as is... > > :-) > > Be Enlightened In This Life - We ALL Can > http://chanjmjm.blogspot.com > http://www.heartchan.org
