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**casinobonuscxz** · 05-30-2012, 06:54 AM

karma (Skt; Tib: lä): action; the working of cause and effect, whereby positive (virtuous) actions produce happiness and negative (non-virtuous) actions produce suffering.
www.lamayeshe.com Karma, being the action you/your Mind make is what causes the outcome of the realm you're reborn into.

I also know that many, including myself, believe in Buddhism as purely psychological/philosophical, with no real belief in any sort of 'continued existence', wether it's the mind, or your Karma. That is what you believe and that is fine. It's your belief.
The Buddha and some High Lamas and Yogis have, in deep meditation, had realizations from past lives/existences

Is the candle example the sutta you are speaking of?
If so, also understand that the example of the flame is the continuing Mind. Which as it burns the first, and each following candle it is never the same. It is burning a different part of the wick, different wax of the candle and different molecules of oxygen. Then moves to another candle/existence. So our Mind is in constant change just as the flame of the candle form each moment of this existence and each following existence.

05-30-2012, 06:54 AM	#7
casinobonuscxz Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 437 Senior Member	karma (Skt; Tib: lä): action; the working of cause and effect, whereby positive (virtuous) actions produce happiness and negative (non-virtuous) actions produce suffering. www.lamayeshe.com Karma, being the action you/your Mind make is what causes the outcome of the realm you're reborn into. I also know that many, including myself, believe in Buddhism as purely psychological/philosophical, with no real belief in any sort of 'continued existence', wether it's the mind, or your Karma. That is what you believe and that is fine. It's your belief. The Buddha and some High Lamas and Yogis have, in deep meditation, had realizations from past lives/existences Is the candle example the sutta you are speaking of? If so, also understand that the example of the flame is the continuing Mind. Which as it burns the first, and each following candle it is never the same. It is burning a different part of the wick, different wax of the candle and different molecules of oxygen. Then moves to another candle/existence. So our Mind is in constant change just as the flame of the candle form each moment of this existence and each following existence.
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