mike..i need you to clarify what you mean?...please supply an example..merle Merle,
If the Buddha was spouting "bullshit", then I challenge you to name one thing in your life you've done that didn't have a preceding cause or condition. The whole of Buddhism can basically be summed up as 'cause and effect'. Are you claiming a higher knowledge than Buddha?? Mike Sent from Yahoo! Mail for iPad ________________________________ From: Merle Lester <[email protected]>; To: [email protected] <[email protected]>; Subject: [Zen] karma drama rama Sent: Thu, Jun 6, 2013 8:12:42 AM bullshit bullshit bullshit...cause and effect..does not work in the human field... might do in science.. humans are irrational creatures .. yes bill..it is true..the mantra karma has the good and bad sing song attached to it.. as joe blow in the steeet merle Mike, Are you now saying that the Buddhist understanding of karma is the same as the modern scientific understanding of cause-and-effect? I didn't think that was what you were saying nor do I believe that's the case. The reason I don't believe it is because you (and most Buddhists out there) assign a good/bad valuation to the 'cause' which is passed on to the 'effect' of set of karmic events. Science (the last I checked) does not. That's why I specified karma as a Buddhist belief, although I also think it is a core belief in most (maybe all) religions. ...Bill! --- In [email protected], uerusuboyo@... wrote: > > Bill!,<br/><br/>How is it just a Buddhist belief?! Who else denies cause and > effect accept you? I agree with David Hume that it is difficult to pinpoint a > necessary connection in a train of cause and effect events (Was it the > darkness of the room that caused me to turn on the light or was it the > flicking of the switch or the electric current or the heating of the > filaments etc.), but that still doesn't rule out cause and effect; it's just > difficult to breakdown). Even Hume said causality is the "cement of the > universe".<br/><br/>Mike<br/><br/><br/>Sent from Yahoo! Mail for iPad >
