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**Aafimoq** · 09-23-2011, 10:00 PM

From Ajahn Sucitto's "Kamma and the End of Kamma", page iv:

Did the Buddha actually teach this?

No.

Isn't Sucitto just repeating (rebirthing?) the bhikkhu Sati's heresy (MN 38) here? Yes.

What do you think? I think Sucitto should just paint a red dot on his forehead and be done with it...

(Sucitto):

Rebirth and kamma
The agency of samsara is not a body or an identity.
Bodies endure dependent on conditions for one lifetime
only. Identity – as daughter, mother, manager, invalid and
so on – arises dependent on causes and conditions. What is
above referred to as ‘transmigration’ is not ‘rebirth’ but the
process whereby a persisting current of grasping continues
to generate sentient beings. Moreover, this current isn’t
something that only occurs at death, but is continually fed
by kamma in the here and now. Through an inclination
called ‘becoming,’ kamma forms something like a psychological
genetic code. This code, which is the pattern of each
individual’s kammic inheritance, is formed through dynamic
processes called sankhara. Like one’s personal genetic code,
the sankhara retain our kammic blueprints, and so from day
to day we remain the same person in relative terms. "Sankhara" as Atman. I love playing "Find the Atman"....

09-23-2011, 10:00 PM	#6
Aafimoq Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 420 Senior Member	From Ajahn Sucitto's "Kamma and the End of Kamma", page iv: Did the Buddha actually teach this? No. Isn't Sucitto just repeating (rebirthing?) the bhikkhu Sati's heresy (MN 38) here? Yes. What do you think? I think Sucitto should just paint a red dot on his forehead and be done with it... (Sucitto): Rebirth and kamma The agency of samsara is not a body or an identity. Bodies endure dependent on conditions for one lifetime only. Identity – as daughter, mother, manager, invalid and so on – arises dependent on causes and conditions. What is above referred to as ‘transmigration’ is not ‘rebirth’ but the process whereby a persisting current of grasping continues to generate sentient beings. Moreover, this current isn’t something that only occurs at death, but is continually fed by kamma in the here and now. Through an inclination called ‘becoming,’ kamma forms something like a psychological genetic code. This code, which is the pattern of each individual’s kammic inheritance, is formed through dynamic processes called sankhara. Like one’s personal genetic code, the sankhara retain our kammic blueprints, and so from day to day we remain the same person in relative terms. "Sankhara" as Atman. I love playing "Find the Atman"....
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