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**RlUbQU3R** · 03-08-2011, 09:21 AM

Karma is choice. Chosen thought, chosen speech, chosen action. The fruit of karma is consequence.
Hence, your choices and their consequences. Act skillfully, and wholesome consequences (generally) result.

With regards to enlightenment, you choose to think, speak and act in accordance with the teachings of impermanence, not-self, dukkha, the (Five) Precepts, the Four Noble Truths and Noble Eightfold Path and the like, and the consequence is that the mind is lead away from a state of clinging to having (Supramundane/Noble) Right View, where craving and clinging drop away as the mind discerns its true nature and the nature of all things as nothing but a cloud of change, ungraspable, causing suffering to chase after.

Understanding choice and consequence is how we take responsibility for ourselves, as well as the reason that the Noble Eightfold Path actually works. If you choose to follow this path and exert Right Effort, it lets you accept reality and let go of your striving and craving. Looking for some special/magical/supernatural meaning to life is what got us into such problems that we have now, and belief systems. See the simplicity right in front of you, here and now, because that's the only place you'll ever find Nirvana.

03-08-2011, 09:21 AM	#39
RlUbQU3R Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 582 Senior Member	Karma is choice. Chosen thought, chosen speech, chosen action. The fruit of karma is consequence. Hence, your choices and their consequences. Act skillfully, and wholesome consequences (generally) result. With regards to enlightenment, you choose to think, speak and act in accordance with the teachings of impermanence, not-self, dukkha, the (Five) Precepts, the Four Noble Truths and Noble Eightfold Path and the like, and the consequence is that the mind is lead away from a state of clinging to having (Supramundane/Noble) Right View, where craving and clinging drop away as the mind discerns its true nature and the nature of all things as nothing but a cloud of change, ungraspable, causing suffering to chase after. Understanding choice and consequence is how we take responsibility for ourselves, as well as the reason that the Noble Eightfold Path actually works. If you choose to follow this path and exert Right Effort, it lets you accept reality and let go of your striving and craving. Looking for some special/magical/supernatural meaning to life is what got us into such problems that we have now, and belief systems. See the simplicity right in front of you, here and now, because that's the only place you'll ever find Nirvana.
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