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Laughing on the doubts

October 21st, 2008
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Good Morning Volker… from the deepest of my respect to you, you have made me to laugh a lot on this post. Buddhists always laughing and enjoying their life, even when they have got a bad time.

As Geshe-la uses to play with us, he says: I want you to get crazy….

Ok, answering your questions.

First of all, you are still mixing concepts, Karma is not causes and conditions. To die in a aircrash you need to create the conditions, actually you and all other passangers have to gathered together the conditions for the airplane to have engines, electrical or any other problem and then having a crash!

If you have a good karma?, uhhhh… Look at yourself, at now, of course you have a wonderful karma. Your whole is fulfiled by enjoyments, you are a Human Being, you have got a good job, wife, money, friends, family and so on, and I believe good mental state and good minds. Maybe, you have create causes to change this karma in the future, but no one can predicte it, only Buddha knows everything. Because that, is very important to practice Dharma sincerely.

You wont know what will happen to us tomorrow, this afternoon, this lunch time…It is impossible, we are in samsara. But we can weak our negative karma practising virtuous actions all the time.

No, Buddhas wont take any actions to you, they will not establish anything to you. Everything is related to you karma. By your present actions you will create the causes and conditions to ripen a positive karma and not the negative one. The concept of God in Buddhism does not exist in same way as Catholics.

Been honest to you, I want to get you even craisier than now, it’s urgent to let our delusions, previous concepts go, let them go now! Get crazy and find our your own scape from samsara.

I am very glad that you are thinking to get back to Geshe-la. Yeah, take your own time, enjoy the Path, be constantly happy and make others even happier than you.

Enjoy your day.

L&K

Marcelo



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doubts and questions

October 20th, 2008
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Marcelo,

I have been thinking. Thinking a lot about various things.

I cannot and I do not want to believe that I would not die in an airline crash (using that as an example), if I had good karma. Everytime I go on a longer trip, I donate something to my Buddha, asking for protection, asking to come back as I have not yet fnished what I started.

That is my humble opinion. Maybe I have fulfilled my purpose already and it is not up to me to decide. But, who decides? Buddha is not like a god that is above us all, is he? Is it the law of the universe?

So, given the circumstances, that – and I assume that – I have a good Karma. What would happen if I had been in a crash. Would I die or not?

I don’t even want to picture it, because it is almost like “I don’t mind having an accident, because I have a good Karma”. However, I understand that if we decide to kill ourselves (jump in front of a train) or drink and drive, we are changing our Karma, even if last minute, to die? Did I understand that correctly?

Marcelo, when do I know if I have good Karma. When do I know I have finished what I set out to do in this life? Will I ever know?

I need to go back. I need to revisit Gelshe’s books. I need to visit the centre and I need to find my path. And, I need to do that in my own time. I need to do that whilst I start meditating more regularly.

Thanks for your input.

How are things with you.

Love and Kindness – from a train to Leeds
Volker

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causes and conditions

October 20th, 2008
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Good morning Volker, hope you have enjoyed so much your weekend.

When you have said “purpose and fulfilment”, in Buddhism we say “causes and contitions”.

Accidents and all phenomena that happen to us in according to the causes we have created for it and the conditions that ripen at the moment it happens to us.
Maybe in time of an accident we could created causes for it to happen, but we did not create enough causes to dye.

If our conditions that we might created at the time of the accident, e.g., is the speed of the car we are driving up is too fast without safe belt or we are driving down after some pits of beer we are creating the conditions to suffer a lot.

Even though, if in the past we did not created the causes to dye, will not dye at that moment, but if those conditions are atrong enough fot that time, we might created a such strong karma by it that could dye in that accident.

Remember conditions we created in the earlier past of this present life or long ago in the previous life, they could ripen right now or sometime in the future.

I hope it’s helpful to you to understand this great Law…

L&K

Marcelo

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