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Going through my records to find new subjects to write about ,I came upon a summarized text of 11pages on Karma and Rebirth.
Tomorrow...... Shall start this new find.
Loong
Simple Buddhist ,that last nIte lived,the most intense bliss of my years in Buddhism.

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Going through my bookshelves found a nice text on Karma
It also speaks of Re-Birth,contains 11 pages of text and is from www.the big view.com

Today we shall start with the intro of that little booklet.

KARMA AND RE-BIRTH.

The wheel of life ,or SAMSARA,is an ancient symbol that has the same meaning in Buddhism and Hinduism.It symbolizes the cycle of birth and life and death .When one revolution of the wheel is completed,life begins again with rebirth.

Tomorrow!!!! We will go into the text part.

Loong
simple Buddhist
P.s.for a long while I made my own books ,by downloading and printing and having them assembled
This one dates July 12 2007.

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WHAT IS KARMA?

Karma is a Sanskrit word that literally means "action".The word is used to refer to volitional acts as well as the forces that arise from these acts.The idea of karma had existed in ancient Indian philosophy before the time of Siddhartha Gautama,and it became an important element of Buddhist philosophy.

The Hindu and Buddhist concept of Karma are quite similar although Hinduism makes a further distinction between different types of Karma,such as present Karma,latent &future Karma.In the understanding of both thought systems,the law of Karma describes the connection between actions and the resulting forces ,as follows;wholesome actions lead to wholesome states while unwholesome states,individually and as well as collectively.

Loong's comment:In Hinduism a soul is involved,Buddhism does not believe in an immortal soul.Everything being impermanent,and
totally controlled by the Mind.

Loong
simple Buddhist.

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THE ETHICAL DIMENSION
To make this more intelligible ,one has to account for(in)wholesome actions and unwholesome states,and their respective meaning in Buddhism.The former is outlined in the Noble Eighfolkd Path.Action springs from volition,which springs from intention ,which springs from thought,and so forth.The quality of actions can be described in ethical terms,simply as either good or bad ,or both good or bad,or indifferent.There are various grades of ethical qualities,and most people have an intuitive understanding that enables them to discern between good and bad,although the discerning ability depends on the persons state of mental development.A wise person at a high level of mental development can clearly discern good from bad,,mental activities and actions in an ethical dimension ,while adeluded person has difficulties or is even unable to do so.

Loong
simple buddhist

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Text taken from The big view org.

GOOD AND BAD VS SKILFUL AND UNSKILFUL.

Whenever the three defilements-delusion,greed,and aversion ,are present ,they blur the view and increase the level of confusion
in the individual or group.Consequently,if the defilements are present,there is a low level of skill in distinguishing between good and bad actions.Thus it makes sense to say that we have skillful(good)and unskilful(bad) thoughts,we speak skillful(good)and unskilful(bad) words,and we act either in a
skillful(good)or in an unskilful(bad) way.

The Buddhist Precepts and the Ten Perfections give concrete meaning to good and bad and explain skillful and unskilful volitional acts in detail.Since everything in Buddhism is interrelated,the Eightfold Path must be seen in connection with the Four Noble Truths,the concept of karma,and the tenet of rebirth.

Loong
Learning and simple buddhist

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Text taken from the site Www,The big view.

MORAL QUALITY OF VOLITIONAL ACTS DETERMINES KARMA.

The law of Karma states that there is a connection between the moral quality,the level of skill in volitional actions,and the resulting states.What we are is determined largely by what we thought,said and did in the past,while what we are thinking ,saying,and doing now will form our future.The Karma of past,present,and future events are connected by the law of cause and effect.
For instance,if one generates bad karma by hurting or killing sentient beings,one will have to endure the negative consequences of these dees in this or another lifetime,Similarly ,if one generates good karma by observing the precepts ,positive consequences will follow inevitably.
Buddhists understand Karma as a natural law.
There is no higher instance,no judgment,no divine intervention ,and no gods that steer mans destiny,but only the law of karma itsel,
Which works on a global frame .Deeds yeild consequences either in the next second,in the next hour,day,month,year decade or even in the next lifetime,or in another distant lifetime.To illustrate
this consider the following example describing a sequence of volitional acts,which yield instant karmic results.

Enough for today.

Loong
simple Buddhist.


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EXAMPLE ;The arising of voliation and Karma.


An unpleasant sensation occurs.A thought arises that the source of
the unpleasantness was a person.This thought is a Delusion;any decision based upon it will therefore be be unskilful.A thought arises that some past sensations of unpleasantness issued from this same person .This thought is further delusion.This is followed by a
wilful deision to speakwords that will produce an unpleasant sensation in which is perceived as a peron .This decision is an act of hostility.

Of all the events described so far,only this is called karma.Words are carefully chosen in the hopes that when heard they will cause pain .The wors are pronounced aloud.this is the execution of the decision to be hostile.It may also be classed as a kind of karma,technically it is after-karma

enough for today

this text is taken from www.the big view.com

loong
refreshind and learning new knowledge,a simple buddhist.

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This text is taken from a resume on karma and rebirth from
the Big View.

Today we shall enter the world of REBIRTH.

Buddhists hold that the retributive pocess of karma can span more than one lifetime.REBIRTH,in Buddhism ,reincarnation in other phylosophies otr religions,has always been an mportant tenet in Buddhism.and it is often referred to as walking the wheel of life
(Samsara) It is the process of being born over and over again in differnt times and different situations,possibly for many thousands
times.As long as there is delusion,,greed ,and aversion ,and as long as passions are not extinguished,we generate karma.Because we evevtually accumulate unmaterialised karna in this or in a past lifetime,there is a next lifetime in which the accumulated karma wiil take form.Only when all accumulated karna is realised and the generation of new karma is calmed,one can enter the stream that leads to NIRVANA.
loong

simple buddhist

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Text taken from The Big Vue.

Yesterday we saw part of the text on Rebirth,todaywe shall close the subject.

This process continues until Nirvana is reached ,which signifies the cessation of rebirth and,hence suffering.

It is notable that this also entails the avoidance of "good karma".Once tge stream that leads to Nirvana is entered,creating wholesome karma is not an object anymore.Although wholesome karma leads to entering the stream ,it does not necessarely lead to
Nirvana,only the estinguishment of all karmic forces will lead to Nirvana.

loong
simple buddhist

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THE NON-SELF.

taken from a document from The Big-view.

The concept of rebirth is unfamiliar to most Western people.Its
philosoical and traditional foundation is found in India where the
theory of transmigration of soulsad presumably existed long before it was written down in the Upanishads around 300 B.C.
The Buddhist cocept is subtly different frao the classical Indian understanding,because it denies the existence of a self.In Buddhism the idea of self is merely an illusion .Man wrongly identifies
perception ,consciousness,mind and body with what he calls self.In
reality there is no abidind identity that could be identified with a self, because the states of perception ,consciousness,abd mind constantly change.
That is it for today.

loong
relearning and a simple buddhist.