whitesilk

I've recently read a quote that I would like to understand in a modern context. What does the term 'create karma' mean?

I'll stay here on the Earth.

Very good thought. So Everything, to you, karma is more a state of being than the previous meaning of acting with intent? I am inclined to disagree. I guess the literal translation of the word is work. I had a 'karma' yoga book, coupled with the 'bhatki' or love yoga. The book I gave away when finished to an oriental Indian. 'work' would denote action, and 'love' is an intangible concept. Perhaps I am putting my own interpretation into your writing above.

Their belief system relies on an orderly societal 'class' structure, the Oriental Indians at least, from which buddhism originated. A good read is "the god of small things," by arundhati roy. I studied it in high school. It is written I believe as a catharsis of a 'brahmin' who was molested in the market as a youth, I am not exactly sure if I remember correctly, something about an orange, and befriends a boy of the lower class, not the one who molested her. They lead some sort of dance to break free from the external class structure.

Presuming that I'm crazy enough to start the path of smoking, the way or path as we may term it regardless of how, exists whether we journey there or not.

Money up in smoke. We are out of food and time. Let us order in.

Divorced from all doubt, The stranger said, "Do you know what those do to you?"

My hopes are that the translator would like me to 'expound' this sutra quote. 'An ancient said: "If you want to seek buddhahood by creating karma, then [for you the concept] buddha is the harbinger of birth and death." We must first admit we are in mara, and we do not have the way out. We must be lead out. I am personally of the belief that we cannot 'seek' buddhahood. The seeking itself to attain it creates karma. BTW, the birds love Randy Bachman, S1va, there is a topic, talk amongst yourselves.

found one answer that is straight forward. Thank You. I disagree though.

I'm impelled to call each of you wrong in viewpoint. Only a Buddha would know the answer to my question. That's my Buddha nature speaking, if it is still there. I'm being harsh because there shouldn't be five hours of created karma on the topic of creating karma.

I've gotten a headache from reading the first page of posts. The simple question was simply answered with the first post by Jeff, and now I have a headache. How did the other three pages come into form? Could someone give me a sparknotes of the forth and back of the past few hours?

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I read from the gita as doing for the sake of doing. The term pleasure or karma was not there, as far as I remember.

Enough is enough! Coach Shaq screamed to the team and Fletch caught the hail mary.

'The ocean is vast because it takes in what it puts out.' -wen-tzu This means, in my opinion, accepting the negative and the positive. One must not ignore negativity (even though at times I do). There is another that relates, I've just read it somewhere. 'The wise turn calamity into fortune.'

From Thomas Cleary's Taoist Classics, p. 228 v. 1: Wen-Tzu 102: Lao-tzu said: When sages set up education and execute policies, they must observe the end and the beginning and see the benefits created. When the people know writing, their virtue deteriorates. When they know calculation, their benevolence deteriorates. When they know contracts, their trust deteriorates. When they know machines, their substantiality deteriorates. A lute does not make any sound, but its twenty-five strings each resound through it; an axle does not turn itself, but the thirty spokes of a wheel revolve by virtue of its power. The strings of a lute must have a balance of relaxation and tautness in order to play a tune. A car needs a balance of work and rest in order to travel far. What enables there to be sound is itself soundless; what makes turning possible does not itself turn. Rulers and ruled are on different paths; what is easy to govern soon loses order. Those whose rank is high and path is great are followed; Petty virtue spoils justice, petty goodness spoils the Way, petty intellectualism spoils government. Cruel strictness harms virtue. Great rectitude is not threatening, so the people are easy to lead. Perfect government is easygoing, so the lower classes do not steal. Perfect loyalty returns to simplicity, so the people have no hypocrisy. I cannot predict the future, yet understand that the decisions I make today affect it. I have read the idea of 'seeing the end and beginning' before, I think in the chuang-tzu. How much of this writing above appears to be actually valid? It echos V. 11 of the Tao-Te-Ching in paragraph two. I haven't read any classics in a while because I still think 'reading between the lines' carries a stronger message.

Suppose that the literal reading offers a plebeian and proletariat education system, and a separate aristocratic message was contained in the same text.

v.48 here

its a tao-te-ching quote or te-tao-ching if you are knowledgeable enough.

perhaps the way is not the truth

True, back to this topic, a perfect truth has been unfound, yet truth denotes knowledge denotes learning. 'for learning you gain daily, for the way you lose daily.'

Special so that it allows perhaps for greater, faster measurements.

Yes it is digital, yet potentially analog as well

for the way you lose daily?

I am tempted to post videos. The frequency of any harmonic signal.