The Theory of Karma

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    [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]By Ven. Mahasi Sadayaw
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    [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] Karma is the law of moral causation. The theory of Karma is a fundamental doctrine in Buddhism. This belief was prevalent in India before the advent of the Buddha. Nevertheless, it was the Buddha who explained and formulated this doctrine in the complete form in which we have it today. [/FONT]
    [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] What is the cause of the inequality that exists among mankind?
    Why should one person be brought up in the lap of luxury, endowed with fine mental, moral and physical qualities, and another in absolute poverty, steeped in misery?
    Why should one person be a mental prodigy, and another an idiot?
    Why should one person be born with saintly characteristics and another with criminal tendencies?
    Why should some be linguistic, artistic, mathematically inclined, or musical from the very cradle?
    Why should others be congenitally blind, deaf, or deformed?|
    Why should some be blessed, and others cursed from their births?
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    [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Reference: http://www.buddhanet.net/e-learning/karma.htm
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    [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] Either this inequality of mankind has a cause, or it is purely accidental. No sensible person would think of attributing this unevenness, this inequality, and this diversity to blind chance or pure accident.[/FONT]
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    [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] In this world nothing happens to a person that he does not for some reason or other deserve. Usually, men of ordinary intellect cannot comprehend the actual reason or reasons. The definite invisible cause or causes of the visible effect is not necessarily confined to the present life, they may be traced to a proximate or remote past birth.[/FONT]
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    [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] According to Buddhism, this inequality is due not only to heredity, environment, "nature and nurture", but also to Karma. In other words, it is the result of our own past actions and our own present doings. We ourselves are responsible for our own happiness and misery. We create our own Heaven. We create our own Hell. We are the architects of our own fate. [/FONT]
     
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    [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] Perplexed by the seemingly inexplicable, apparent disparity that existed among humanity, a young truth-seeker approached the Buddha and questioned him regarding this intricate problem of inequality: [/FONT]
    [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] "What is the cause, what is the reason, O Lord," questioned he, "that we find amongst mankind the short-lived and long-lived, the healthy and the diseased, the ugly and beautiful, those lacking influence and the powerful, the poor and the rich, the low-born and the high-born, and the ignorant and the wise?"[/FONT]
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    [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] The Buddha’s reply was: [/FONT]
    [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] "All living beings have actions (Karma) as their own, their inheritance, their congenital cause, their kinsman, their refuge. It is Karma that differentiates beings into low and high states." [/FONT]
    [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] He then explained the cause of such differences in accordance with the law of cause and effect. [/FONT]
     
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    [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] Certainly we are born with hereditary characteristics. At the same time we possess certain innate abilities that science cannot adequately account for. To our parents we are indebted for the gross sperm and ovum that form the nucleus of this so-called being. They remain dormant within each parent until this potential germinal compound is vitalised by the karmic energy needed for the production of the foetus. Karma is therefore the indispensable conceptive cause of this being.[/FONT]
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    [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] The accumulated karmic tendencies, inherited in the course of previous lives, at times play a far greater role than the hereditary parental cells and genes in the formation of both physical and mental characteristics. [/FONT]
     
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    [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] The Buddha, for instance, inherited, like every other person, the reproductive cells and genes from his parents. But physically, morally and intellectually there was none comparable to him in his long line of Royal ancestors. In the Buddha’s own words, he belonged not to the Royal lineage, but to that of the Aryan Buddhas. He was certainly a superman, an extraordinary creation of his own Karma.[/FONT]
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    [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] According to the Lakkhana Sutta of Digha Nikaya, the Buddha inherited exceptional features, such as the 32 major marks, as the result of his past meritorious deeds. The ethical reason for acquiring each physical feature is clearly explained in the Sutta.[/FONT]
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    [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] It is obvious from this unique case that karmic tendencies could not only influence our physical organism, but also nullify the potentiality of the parental cells and genes – hence the significance of the Buddha’s enigmatic statement, - "We are the heirs of our own actions." [/FONT]
     
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    [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] Dealing with this problem of variation, the Atthasalini, being a commentary on the Abhidharma, states:[/FONT]
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    [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] "Depending on this difference in Karma appears the differences in the birth of beings, high and low, base and exalted, happy and miserable. Depending on the difference in Karma appears the difference in the individual features of beings as beautiful and ugly, high-born or low born, well-built or deformed. Depending on the difference in Karma appears the difference in worldly conditions of beings, such as gain and loss, and disgrace, blame and praise, happiness and misery."[/FONT]
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    [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] Thus, from a Buddhist point of view, our present mental, moral intellectual and temperamental differences are, for the most part, due to our own actions and tendencies, both past and present. [/FONT]
     
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    [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] Although Buddhism attributes this variation to Karma, as being the chief cause among a variety, it does not, however, assert that everything is due to Karma. The law of Karma, important as it is, is only one of the twenty-four conditions described in Buddhist Philosophy.[/FONT]

    [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] Refuting the erroneous view that "whatsoever fortune or misfortune experienced is all due to some previous action", the Buddha said:

    [/FONT] [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] "So, then, according to this view, owing to previous action men will become murderers, thieves, unchaste, liars, slanderers, covetous, malicious and perverts. Thus, for those who fall back on the former deeds as the essential reason, there is neither the desire to do, nor effort to do, nor necessity to do this deed, or abstain from this deed."[/FONT]
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    [/FONT][FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]It was this important text, which states the belief that all physical circumstances and mental attitudes spring solely from past Karma that Buddha contradicted. If the present life is totally conditioned or wholly controlled by our past actions, then certainly Karma is tantamount to fatalism or determinism or predestination. If this were true, free will would be an absurdity. Life would be purely mechanistic, not much different from a machine. Being created by an Almighty God who controls our destinies and predetermines our future, or being produced by an irresistible Karma that completely determines our fate and controls our life’s course, independent of any free action on our part, is essentially the same. The only difference lies in the two words God and Karma. One could easily be substituted for the other, because the ultimate operation of both forces would be identical.[/FONT]
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    [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] Such a fatalistic doctrine is not the Buddhist law of Karma. [/FONT]
     
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    [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] According to Buddhism, there are five orders or processes (niyama) which operate in the physical and mental realms.[/FONT]
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    [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] They are: [/FONT]
    1. [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] Utu Niyama[/FONT][FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]- physical inorganic order, e.g. seasonal phenomena of winds and [/FONT][FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]rains. The unerring order of seasons, characteristic seasonal changes and events, causes of winds and rains, nature of heat, etc., all belong to this group. [/FONT]
    2. [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] Bija Niyama - order of germs and seeds (physical organic order), e.g. rice produced from rice-seed, sugary taste from sugar-cane or honey, peculiar characteristics of certain fruits, etc. The scientific theory of cells and genes and the physical similarity of twins may be ascribed to this order. [/FONT]
    3. [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] Karma Niyama - order of act and result, e.g., desirable and undesirable acts produce corresponding good and bad results. As surely as water seeks its own level so does Karma, given opportunity, produce its inevitable result, not in the form of a reward or punishment but as an innate sequence. This sequence of deed and effect is as natural and necessary as the way of the sun and the moon. [/FONT]
    4. [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] Dhamma Niyama - order of the norm, e.g., the natural phenomena occurring at the advent of a Bodhisattva in his last birth. Gravitation and other similar laws of nature. The natural reason for being good and so forth, may be included in this group. [/FONT]
    5. [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] Citta Niyama - order or mind or psychic law, e.g., processes of consciousness, arising and perishing of consciousness, constituents of consciousness, power of mind, etc., including telepathy, telaesthesia, retro-cognition, premonition, clairvoyance, clairaudience, thought-reading and such other psychic phenomena which are inexplicable to modern science. [/FONT]
    [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] Every mental or physical phenomenon could be explained by these all-embracing five orders or processes which are laws in themselves. Karma as such is only one of these five orders. Like all other natural laws they demand no lawgiver.[/FONT]
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    [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] Of these five, the physical inorganic order and the order of the norm are more or less mechanistic, though they can be controlled to some extent by human ingenuity and the power of mind. For example, fire normally burns, and extreme cold freezes, but man has walked scatheless over fire and meditated naked on Himalayan snows; horticulturists have worked marvels with flowers and fruits; Yogis have performed levitation. Psychic law is equally mechanistic, but Buddhist training aims at control of mind, which is possible by right understanding and skilful volition. Karma law operates quite automatically and, when the Karma is powerful, man cannot interfere with its inexorable result though he may desire to do so; but here also right understanding and skilful volition can accomplish much and mould the future. Good Karma, persisted in, can thwart the reaping of bad Karma, or as some Western scholars prefer to say ‘action influence’, is certainly an intricate law whose working is fully comprehended only by a Buddha. The Buddhist aims at the final destruction of all Karma. [/FONT]
     
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    What is Karma?

    [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] The Pali term Karma literally means action or doing. Any kind of intentional action whether mental, verbal, or physical, is regarded as Karma. It covers all that is included in the phrase "thought, word and deed". Generally speaking, all good and bad action constitutes Karma. In its ultimate sense Karma means all moral and immoral volition. Involuntary, unintentional or unconscious actions, though technically deeds, do not constitute Karma, because volition, the most important factor in determining Karma, is absent.[/FONT]
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    [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] The Buddha says: [/FONT]
    [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] "I declare, O Bhikkhus, that volition is Karma. Having willed one acts by body, speech, and thought." (Anguttara Nikaya) [/FONT]
    [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] Every volitional action of individuals, save those of Buddhas and Arahants, is called Karma. The exception made in their case is because they are delivered from both good and evil; they have eradicated ignorance and craving, the roots of Karma. [/FONT]
     
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    [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] "Destroyed are their germinal seeds (Khina bija); selfish desires no longer grow," states the Ratana Sutta of Sutta nipata.[/FONT]
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    [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] This does not mean that the Buddha and Arahantas are passive. They are tirelessly active in working for the real well being and happiness of all. Their deeds ordinarily accepted as good or moral, lack creative power as regards themselves. Understanding things as they truly are, they have finally shattered their cosmic fetters – the chain of cause and effect.[/FONT]
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    [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] Karma does not necessarily mean past actions. It embraces both past and present deeds. Hence in one sense, we are the result of what we were; we will be the result of what we are. In another sense, it should be added, we are not totally the result of what we were; we will not absolutely be the result of what we are. The present is no doubt the offspring of the past and is the present of the future, but the present is not always a true index of either the past or the future; so complex is the working of Karma.[/FONT]
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    [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] It is this doctrine of Karma that the mother teaches her child when she says "Be good and you will be happy and we will love you; but if you are bad, you will be unhappy and we will not love you." In short, Karma is the law of cause and effect in the ethical realm. [/FONT]
     
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    Karma and Vipaka

    [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] Karma is action, and Vipaka, fruit or result, is its reaction.[/FONT]
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    [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] Just as every object is accompanied by a shadow, even so every volitional activity is inevitably accompanied by its due effect. Karma is like potential seed: Vipaka could be likened to the fruit arising from the tree – the effect or result. Anisamsa and Adinaya are the leaves, flowers and so forth that correspond to external differences such as health, sickness and poverty – these are inevitable consequences, which happen at the same time. Strictly speaking, both Karma and Vipaka pertain to the mind.[/FONT]
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    [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] As Karma may be good or bad, so may Vipaka, - the fruit – is good or bad. As Karma is mental so Vipaka is mental (of the mind). It is experienced as happiness, bliss, unhappiness or misery, according to the nature of the Karma seed. Anisamsa are the concomitant advantages – material things such as prosperity, health and longevity. When Vipaka’s concomitant material things are disadvantageous, they are known as Adinaya, full of wretchedness, and appear as poverty, ugliness, disease, short life-span and so forth.[/FONT]
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    [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] As we sow, we reap somewhere and sometime, in his life or in a future birth. What we reap today is what we have sown either in the present or in the past. [/FONT]
     
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    [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] The Samyutta Nikaya states: [/FONT]
    [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] "According to the seed that’s sown,
    So is the fruit you reap there from,
    Doer of good will gather good,
    Doer of evil, evil reaps,
    Down is the seed and thou shalt taste
    The fruit thereof."
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    [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] Karma is a law in itself, which operates in its own field without the intervention of any external, independent ruling agency.[/FONT]
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    [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] Happiness and misery, which are the common lot of humanity, are the inevitable effects of causes. From a Buddhist point of view, they are not rewards and punishments, assigned by a supernatural, omniscient ruling power to a soul that has done good or evil. Theists, who attempt to explain everything in this and temporal life and in the eternal future life, ignoring a past, believe in a ‘postmortem’ justice, and may regard present happiness and misery as blessings and curses conferred on His creation by an omniscient and omnipotent Divine Ruler who sits in heaven above controlling the destinies of the human race. Buddhism, which emphatically denies such an Almighty, All merciful God-Creator and an arbitrarily created immortal soul, believes in natural law and justice which cannot be suspended by either an Almighty God or an All-compassionate Buddha. According to this natural law, acts bear their own rewards and punishments to the individual doer whether human justice finds out or not. [/FONT]
     
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    [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] There are some who criticise thus: "So, you Buddhists, too, administer capitalistic opium to the people, saying: "You are born poor in this life on account of your past evil karma. He is born rich on account of his good Karma. So, be satisfied with your humble lot; but do good to be rich in your next life. You are being oppressed now because of your past evil Karma. There is your destiny. Be humble and bear your sufferings patiently. Do good now. You can be certain of a better and happier life after death."[/FONT]
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    [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] The Buddhist doctrine of Karma does not expound such ridiculous fatalistic views. Nor does it vindicate a postmortem justice. The All-Merciful Buddha, who had no ulterior selfish motives, did not teach this law of Karma to protect the rich and comfort the poor by promising illusory happiness in an after-life.[/FONT]
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    [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] While we are born to a state created by ourselves, yet by our own self-directed efforts there is every possibility for us to create new, favourable environments even here and now. Not only individually, but also, collectively, we are at liberty to create fresh Karma that leads either towards our progress or downfall in this very life.[/FONT]
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    [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] According to the Buddhist doctrine of Karma, one is not always compelled by an ‘iron necessity’, for Karma is neither fate, nor predestination imposed upon us by some mysterious unknown power to which we must helplessly submit ourselves. It is one’s own doing reacting on oneself, and so one has the possibility to divert the course of one’s Karma to some extent. How far one diverts it depends on oneself. [/FONT]
     
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    [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] Is one bound to reap all that one has sown in just proportion?

    [/FONT] [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] The Buddha provides an answer: [/FONT]
    [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] "If anyone says that a man or woman must reap in this life according to his present deeds, in that case there is no religious life, nor is an opportunity afforded for the entire extinction of sorrow. But if anyone says that what a man or woman reaps in this and future lives accords with his or her deeds present and past, in that case there is a religious life, and an opportunity is afforded for the entire extinction of a sorrow." (Anguttara Nikaya) [/FONT]
    [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] Although it is stated in the Dhammapada that "not in the sky, nor in mid-ocean, or entering a mountain cave is found that place on earth where one may escape from (the consequences of) an evil deed", yet one is not bound to pay all the past arrears of one’s Karma. If such were the case emancipation would be impossibility. Eternal recurrence would be the unfortunate result. [/FONT]
     
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    What is the cause of Karma?

    [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] Ignorance (avijja), or not knowing things as they truly are, is the chief cause of Karma. Dependent on ignorance arise activities (avijja paccaya samkhara) states the Buddha in the Paticca Samuppada (Dependent Origination).[/FONT]
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    [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] Associated with ignorance is the ally craving (tanha), the other root of Karma. Evil actions are conditioned by these two causes. All good deeds of a worldling (putthujana), though associated with the three wholesome roots of generosity (alobha), goodwill (adosa) and knowledge (amoha), are nevertheless regarded as Karma because the two roots of ignorance and craving are dormant in him. The moral types of Supramundane Path Consciousness (magga citta) are not regarded as Karma because they tend to eradicate the two root causes. [/FONT]
     
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    [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] Who is the doer of Karma?
    Who reaps the fruit of Karma?
    Does Karma mould a soul?
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    [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] In answering these subtle questions, the Venerable Buddhaghosa writes in the Visuddhi Magga: [/FONT]
    [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] "No doer is there who does the deed;
    Nor is there one who feels the fruit;
    Constituent parts alone roll on;
    This indeed! Is right discernment."
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    [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] For instance, the table we see is apparent reality. In an ultimate sense the so-called table consists of forces and qualities. [/FONT]
    [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] For ordinary purposes a scientist would use the term water, but in the laboratory he would say H 2 0.[/FONT]
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    [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] In this same way, for conventional purposes, such terms as man, woman, being, self, and so forth are used. The so-called fleeting forms consist of psychophysical phenomena, which are constantly changing not remaining the same for two consecutive moments.[/FONT]
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    [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] Buddhists, therefore, do not believe in an unchanging entity, in an actor apart from action, in a perceiver apart from perception, in a conscious subject behind consciousness. [/FONT]
     
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    [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] Who then, is the doer of Karma? Who experiences the effect?[/FONT]
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    [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] Volition, or Will (tetana), is itself the doer, Feeling (vedana) is itself the reaper of the fruits of actions. Apart from these pure mental states (suddhadhamma) there is no-one to sow and no-one to reap. [/FONT]
     
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    Classification of Karma

    [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] (A) With respect to different functions, Karma is classified into four kinds: [/FONT]
    [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] 1. REPRODUCTIVE KARMA [/FONT]
    [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] Every birth is conditioned by a past good or bad karma, which predominated at the moment of death. Karma that conditions the future birth is called Reproductive Karma. The death of a person is merely ‘a temporary end of a temporary phenomenon’. Though the present form perishes, another form which is neither the same nor absolutely different takes its place, according to the potential thought-vibration generated at the death moment, because the Karmic force which propels the life-flux still survives. It is this last thought, which is technically called Reproductive (janaka) Karma, that determines the state of a person in his subsequent birth. This may be either a good or bad Karma.[/FONT]
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    [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] According to the Commentary, Reproductive Karma is that which produces mental aggregates and material aggregates at the moment of conception. The initial consciousness, which is termed the patisandhi rebirth consciousness, is conditioned by this Reproductive (janaka) Karma. Simultaneous with the arising of the rebirth-consciousness, there arise the ‘body-decad’, ‘sex-decad’ and ‘base-decad’ (kaya-bhavavatthu dasakas). (decad = 10 factors).[/FONT]
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    [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] (a) The body-decad is composed of: [/FONT]
    1. [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] The element of extension (pathavi). [/FONT]
    2. [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] The element of cohesion (apo). [/FONT]
    3. [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] The element of heat (tajo). [/FONT]
    4. [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] The element of motion (vayo). [/FONT]
    [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] (b) The four derivatives (upadana rupa): [/FONT]
    1. [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] Colour (vanna). [/FONT]
    2. [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] Odour (gandha). [/FONT]
    3. [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] Taste (rasa). [/FONT]
    4. [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] Nutritive Essence (oja) [/FONT]
    [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] These eight (mahabhuta 4 + upadana 4 = 8) are collectively called Avinibhoga Rupa (indivisable form or indivisable matter).[/FONT]
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    [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] (c) Vitality (jivitindriya) and Body (kaya) [/FONT]
    [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] These (avinibhoga 8 + jivitindriya 1 + Kaya 1 = 10) ten are collectively called "Body-decad" = (Kaya dasaka).[/FONT]
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    [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] Sex-decad and Base-decad also consist of the first nine, sex (bhava) and seat of consciousness (vathu) respectively (i.e. eye, ear, nose, tongue, and body).[/FONT]
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    [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] From this, it is evident that the sex of a person is determined at the very conception of a being. It is conditioned by Karma and is not a fortuitous combination of sperm and ovum cells. The Pain and Happiness one experiences in the course of one’s lifetime are the inevitable consequence of Reproductive Kamma. [/FONT]
     
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    [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] 2. SUPPORTIVE KARMA [/FONT]
    1. [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] That which comes near the Reproductive (janaka) Kamma and supports it. It is neither good nor bad and it assists or maintains the action of the Reproductive (janaka) Karma in the course of one’s lifetime. Immediately after conception till the death moment this Karma steps forward to support the Reproductive Karma. A moral supportive (kusala upathambhaka) Karma assists in giving health, wealth, happiness etc. to the being born with a moral Reproductive Karma. An immoral supportive Karma, on the other hand, assists in giving pain, sorrow, etc. to the being born with an immoral reproductive (akusala janaka) Karma, as for instance to a beast of burden. [/FONT]
     
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    [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] 3. OBSTRUCTIVE KARMA OR COUNTERACTIVE KARMA [/FONT]
    1. [FONT=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif] Which, unlike the former, tends to weaken, interrupt and retard the fruition of the Reproductive Karma. For instance, a person born with a good Reproductive Karma may be subject to various ailments etc., thus preventing him from enjoying the blissful results of his good actions. An animal, on the other hand, who is born with a bad Reproductive Karma may lead a comfortable life by getting good food, lodging, etc., as a result of his good counteractive or obstructive (upabidaka) Karma preventing the fruition of the evil Reproductive Karma. [/FONT]
     

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