Exhibit A: When Buddhist teachings become indistinguishable from brainwash. (Re: Sexual Abuse by Sakyong)pic.twitter.com/S18PBorAQv
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btw, I think the early Buddhist notion of Karma is, not quite bullshit (that’d be slightly too strong), but rather an extraordinarily limited view of causality.
Yes, I don't think an individualist karma need be "there's a cosmic scorecard of your actions judged under such and such conception of good and evil". It could be more casual: "if you spend a lot of time being angry, your mind and environment will cultivate anger".
In any case, do the teachings advocate not showing compassion for or taking action on behalf of those with bad karma? That's more what I was getting at. (Not that you were implying that, of course. I think the post was.)
Mahayana (2nd Turning) teachings disrupted this notion with the reconceptualization of emptiness as interdependency. I’m thinking of it now as the emergence of awakening as an inter-subjective-objective phenomena, not merely an individual achievement.
It’s a little hard to tell, because there’s a lack of general coherency in this post, but the early Buddhist understanding of Karma is totally individual-based. What you do lit. comes back to you, in this life or another. Is that what they were saying karma is or something else?
<reflects back to Buddhist course from 13 years ago> Hmm, it may not actually be *totally* individual-based now that I reflect back, but I was shocked, in studying “The First Turning” teachings @ how much karma was understood as an individualist phenomena.
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