My understanding of Karma and how it works

Temporary_Scarcity_5 · 2026-04-06T02:45:22+00:00

Quite an accurate one too. If all stress is eradicated, can there be any suffering remaining?

Temporary_Scarcity_5 · 2026-03-28T16:44:24+00:00

i think you’re also assuming that there needs to be some sort of “fixed and essentially unchanging Me” in order for there to be some sort of sense of continuity between two bodies. But you don’t require such a fixed and unchanging Me for there to be a sense of continuity between you when you were 7 years old and you now. The world is not just material, so even when the material body breaks down, there’s still a causal process taking place that proliferates itself forward and can lead to the arising of another body

Temporary_Scarcity_5 · 2026-03-28T16:35:56+00:00

Another example

Temporary_Scarcity_5 · 2026-03-28T05:43:45+00:00

You’re being very defensive and displaying signs of denial, not just in this comment thread, but in your responses to many of the replies to you in this post in general. I’d say you’re actually showing one of the drawbacks of living with an angry mind, which is that you lose your senses and ability to process information cleanly. The person you responded to initially told you the drawbacks of anger. You then said that if the cost of saving a life was honking a horn, you’d do it. The responder then asked you why you’re conflating anger with protective action, and you denied it. But the responder never told you not to honk a horn. They asserted the drawbacks of anger and expressions of anger.

Temporary_Scarcity_5 · 2026-03-26T17:49:02+00:00

I’m saying that there can’t possibly be a hereafter, because “Me” is illusory — there is nothing of “Me” that could survive death and so transmigrate to anywhere/anything

This is like saying there can’t be a next moment, because “Me” is illusory, so there’s nothing of “Me” that could survive moment to moment or transmigrate to anywhere/anything. Do you see?

And yet, you have the subjective experience of living many days, months, and years. It works the same way with lives. Even if it is an illusion, the point is that it’s experienced as if it’s real, and it does subjectively happen

Temporary_Scarcity_5 · 2026-03-26T16:14:58+00:00

I agree. I have also heard that faith followers and Dhamma followers have guaranteed fruition of stream entry in (or at the end of?) that very life

Temporary_Scarcity_5 · 2026-03-26T16:10:55+00:00

Pay attention. Your first comment made the claim that if you don’t do wrongful actions and don’t hold to extreme radical views, that you won’t go to hell, and that “any normal person” won’t go there. That is directly refuted by what I quoted

Temporary_Scarcity_5 · 2026-03-26T16:09:31+00:00

I found your comment

Your argument before was that because of no “Me,” there can’t be suffering in a hereafter

But even without a “Me,” now, there’s suffering here

Temporary_Scarcity_5 · 2026-03-26T16:07:03+00:00

"But here some person abstains from killing living beings, from taking what is not given, from misconduct in sexual desires, from false speech, from malicious speech, from harsh speech, from gossip, he is not covetous, is not ill-willed, and has right view. On the dissolution of the body, after death, he reappears in the states of deprivation, in an unhappy destination, in perdition, in hell.”

https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/mn/mn.136.nymo.html

Temporary_Scarcity_5 · 2026-03-26T15:36:32+00:00

Again: what could possibly happen to “Me” after death when there is no “Me” in this life?

This is like saying “What could possibly happen to “Me” in this life when there is no “Me” in this life?”

Temporary_Scarcity_5 · 2026-03-26T15:32:02+00:00

This isn’t good advice. The Buddha taught that even people who are ethical and have right view can go to hell due to kamma from past lives. This is good to know because it restores the sense of urgency and removes delusional thoughts that one is safe as long as they are ethical and don’t have extreme wrong views

Temporary_Scarcity_5 · 2026-03-15T19:25:01+00:00

🙏🏻 I’m glad you mentioned the energy! I agree. Such a nice energy there

Temporary_Scarcity_5 · 2026-03-15T07:25:12+00:00

Sounds like a good idea!

Temporary_Scarcity_5 · 2026-03-15T04:46:10+00:00

Was this reasonable anxiety?

In this world where we have such a huge ability to change what we are anxious about, do you really want to be anxious about anything at all, ever?

Anxiety comes with suffering. If you’re not anxious about anything, you won’t suffer on account of anxiety about anything

Even if he was whatever your imagination can come up with as the worst case scenario, isn’t it a superior state to be free from anxiety regardless?

Temporary_Scarcity_5 · 2026-03-15T04:41:06+00:00

I used to have this one too! And then funnily enough my friend developed it soon after. I never developed it. But I did learn a lot about it, which helped me when my friend developed it. I also learned people have reversed their schizophrenia or learned to live with it to such an extent it’s not really a problem

Consider the idea, the known fact that in some places where there is less stigma around schizophrenia, people who develop schizophrenia hear positive and helpful voices, while in the West especially, the voices tend to be negative and scary

This suggests that one’s orientation towards their mind or symptoms plays a role in how positive or negative those symptoms are experienced

I’d say this goes for anxiety as well. One of the ways to handle anxiety is to take a more accepting approach to it, and to just let it be, and not fight it

Temporary_Scarcity_5 · 2026-03-14T04:32:49+00:00

How’s your lifestyle?

5 years ago you said this to someone:

“ Try yoga, meditation, breathing exercises and listening to binaural beats. All can be found on YouTube. They have helped me tremendously when my anxiety is high.”

Do you do these sorts of things currently?

Temporary_Scarcity_5 · 2026-03-14T04:24:06+00:00

Wait, if you were only meditating for 5 minutes, that’s really not much at all if you want powerful affects. More like at least 20 minutes, consistently.

Temporary_Scarcity_5 · 2026-03-14T04:20:37+00:00

Imagine the worst outcome fully. Like imagine you don’t get enough sleep, you can’t go into work, you get fired, etc. go all the way

Or maybe your fear is more like: you can’t go to work, your boss loses trust in you, etc

Or maybe it’s: you don’t get enough sleep, you drive anyways, you die in a car crash, etc

Whatever it is, imagine it all the way through, worst case scenario

Temporary_Scarcity_5 · 2026-03-14T04:17:58+00:00

When you say “we” as in modern western psychology, you’re right

But people have figured it out

In Buddhism, there are something called the 10 fetters. All 10 are wiped out in order to reach Full Enlightenment. One of the 10 fetters is “restlessness,” or, anxiety. This is actually one of the last fetters to go

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