Wednesday 18 November 2009

Karma in Advayavada Buddhism

Buddhism presupposes traditionally that the human being is composed of some five skandhas or clusters of which, at death, the physical rupa skandha disintegrates and dissolves and the non-physical arupa skandhas, including our consciousness, simply cease to occur completely. In Advayavada Buddhism, karma is seen as a continually changing knot of interdependent events in time, including personal choices and responsibility - karma is the incredibly precise here and now product of all events in all time. New life is the result of the parents' procreative deed and the karma in which the procreative moment is embedded as an integral part. The genetic and social factors present at the beginning of each new life are the direct result of that wondrously minute karmic occurrence in infinite interdependent overall existence.

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