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**TriamiCaw** · 10-07-2010, 10:33 PM

Just 2 cents,

I really never felt comfortable with the Karma/Reincarnation stuff... seems that to practice from this perspective is not at all right and it is not a very wise attitude. Practice should be just because... because the Noble thing in our life is to develop the skills for Right View and thus to overcome dukkha, even if this is the only and last life.

K/R doctrine makes a subtle substitution of some sort of "a god" with the fear for it included, so to do good. It ends in the same frame of thought where is religion... do good or be a good person so to have a comfortable life. Some buddhists tell me... "oh this life I have had has been because some bad karma..." How do they know for sure... what if this is the good one ripening now...?

Is like being a good kid with dad so to have a reward. K/R doctrines works well with this kind of logic. K/R doctrines degrade what Buddha taught and set them into religious thought and makes more solid the identification of the self.

Sorry...

10-07-2010, 10:33 PM	#4
TriamiCaw Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 392 Senior Member	Just 2 cents, I really never felt comfortable with the Karma/Reincarnation stuff... seems that to practice from this perspective is not at all right and it is not a very wise attitude. Practice should be just because... because the Noble thing in our life is to develop the skills for Right View and thus to overcome dukkha, even if this is the only and last life. K/R doctrine makes a subtle substitution of some sort of "a god" with the fear for it included, so to do good. It ends in the same frame of thought where is religion... do good or be a good person so to have a comfortable life. Some buddhists tell me... "oh this life I have had has been because some bad karma..." How do they know for sure... what if this is the good one ripening now...? Is like being a good kid with dad so to have a reward. K/R doctrines works well with this kind of logic. K/R doctrines degrade what Buddha taught and set them into religious thought and makes more solid the identification of the self. Sorry...
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