[Laqswrnm]

I guess the whole "karma" thing seemed like something that I couldn't rightly just toss away, but personally I kind of would like to. I'd like to chuck the whole karma thing because it can lead to victim-blaming, and it's the only area of Buddhist teaching where I see potential problems down the line. The teachings on suffering and compassion are rad and I find them helpful, but I wasn't sure if I could just keep those. Only if you take kamma in the hinduistic terms of something that spans lifetimes. There can be a teaching of kamma without a reincarnation view. The links above show that the Buddhas teaching is included in this, so there is no blaming of a victim of a tragedy because "its there kamma". There are Buddhists who do this but when they make this claim they step out of the realm of the Buddhas teachings and go into their own conjecture


You cant have the Buddhas teachings without Kamma but the Buddhas teaching on Kamma does not mean the hindu concept of it, that is the view that kamma is an ontological "thing" out there somewhere and is something that leads to reincarnation/rebirth


metta