--- Infernal Elk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> >> It means that the person who had composed that
> letter
> >> was not besotted with substantiality while
> composing
> >> it, and consequently his acts didn't result in
> any
> >> karma being produced.
>
> does this apply to all other actions that such a
> person does? i.e.,
> if such a one composing a letter with no karmic
> consequences were to
> *send* the letter, would the sending itself produce
> no karma?
A person who is besotted with substantiality produces
karma in three ways:
a. by generating thoughts
b. by generating speech
c. by generating deeds/actions
Anything such a person does produces karma. That
person cannot wiggle out of producing karma in any
way; he is destined to keep producing karma by
engaging in thinking, by engaging in speaking, by
engaging in doing. Only by waking up from the dream of
substantiality can that person cease to produce karma.
This is exactly what happened to Shakyamuni Buddha one
early morn under the boddhi tree.
If a person is to compose a leter while being free
from the oppression of the illusion of substantiality,
such person would not generate karma. By the same
token, if that same person were to send that letter,
no karma would be produced either, as that person is
free from the illusion of substantiality. And so
forth.
Alex
No karma was produced during the composition of this letter
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