Bill, As far as I know, the Buddhist view of karma should be as follows: - karma can be wholesome or unwholesome. Whether it is good or bad is more or less subjective. Wholesome karma reduces suffering (of yourself and/or others), whereas unwholesome one increases suffering. - The same type of the cause aspect (e.g. wholesome) of karma accumulates, but I don't know if a different type offsets or accumulates by itself differently. It is part of you, so karma does not 'attach', and never 'leaves'. There is no way you can let go of karma. - When your unwholesome karma is exhausted, you blasts off all the way to heaven, or halfway to hungry ghost or human levels. Anthony
________________________________ From: Bill! <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, 10 January 2012, 16:26 Subject: Re: [Zen] When you began learning about buddhism, How did your friends & family react? Anthony, As you are well aware I believe both 'karma' and 'God/sin' to be illusory, but I do have some questions about your (or anyone else reading this) belief in karma: - Is there 'good' and 'bad karma? Or only 'bad' karma? Or just generic, suitble-for-every-day-use karma? - How is karma accumulated? - Where is it accumulated? (To what is it attached?) - How is karma reduced/exhausted? - Where does karma go when it 'leaves' you? - What happens when karma is exhausted? That's enough for now...Bill! --- In [email protected], Anthony Wu <wuasg@...> wrote: > > That defeats the definition of karma. God can absolve sin, while karma > cannot. It has to be 'exhausted'. > > > > ________________________________ > From: ED <seacrofter001@...> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Tuesday, 10 January 2012, 0:12 > Subject: Re: [Zen] When you began learning about buddhism, How did your > friends & family react? > > >  > >  > Is not 'karma' a postulated process which is an outside agent more or less > equivalent to the postulated outside agent of the just Abrahamic God?  > --ED >  > --- In [email protected], Anthony Wu <wuasg@> wrote: > > > > The difference is that karma does not rely on God or any other 'outside > > agent'.  > > Anthony >
