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**Keendwainge** · 04-30-2011, 05:13 AM

What are you teaching now, Podgerl?

Hi Karine,
I am going to be looking at the relationship between karma, samsara and nirvana next week and as my students also do philosophy of religion as a separate component of their course they should be familiar with the concept of determinism. In Christianity, they may have come across the contradiction between determinism and free will: some of them may even come from strict Calvinist backgrounds which mean that they believe that they have been chosen by God. What about their free will in that case? Have been looking at some of the threads here on Karma and am interested in how determinism works in Buddhism....

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Keendwainge Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 444 Senior Member	What are you teaching now, Podgerl? Hi Karine, I am going to be looking at the relationship between karma, samsara and nirvana next week and as my students also do philosophy of religion as a separate component of their course they should be familiar with the concept of determinism. In Christianity, they may have come across the contradiction between determinism and free will: some of them may even come from strict Calvinist backgrounds which mean that they believe that they have been chosen by God. What about their free will in that case? Have been looking at some of the threads here on Karma and am interested in how determinism works in Buddhism....
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