Yellow Robe - A Real Buddhist's Journal

21. The Teaching of Non-Self
(Teachings/Non-Self)

... of the new consciousness in the new existence is conditioned by kamma of the past existence, and is conventionally called by common usage: migration from the old to the new existence. But in reality, there ...

22. The Burden of the Five Aggregates
(Teachings/The Five Aggregates)

... There are wrong beliefs about morality and the existence of self or ego. I shall in the first instance, leave aside these two which will be treated separately later on. The belief that there is no kamma, ...

23. What Caused Love and Hatred
(Teachings/Love and Hatred)

... way the person who harbours it. It provides fertile soil for bad kamma and makes one miserable. A powerful man will seek to ruin the person whom he envies, and by so doing, he turns the other into his ...

24. What are Sensual Pleasures
(Teachings/Sensual Pleasures)

... The new informed worldling (puthujana) may also come to hold the wrong view of living soul or atta to entertain disbelief in the resultant effects of one's own actions, Kamma . Such being the outcome of ...

25. What is Nibbana
(Teachings/Nibbana)

... existence through kamma, others are the result of a cause, and others are produced by season. Tell me, is there anything that does not fall into either of these three categories?" "There are two such ...

26. An Explanation of Rebirth
(Teachings/Rebirth)

... we do with intention is called kamma, which has impetus leading to results (vipāka). When people talk loosely about kamma in the sense of 'fate' they are referring to vipāka, which is the result of kamma, ...

27. An Introduction to Kamma
(Teachings/Kamma)

BY BHIKKHU PESALA Differences Caused by Kamma The law of kamma is central to Buddhist thinking, so every Buddhist should have a sound knowledge of it. On the surface it seems simple — good actions ...

28. The Eightfold Noble's Path
(Teachings/The Eightfold Noble's Path)

... Path. The wrong view stated in brief here is the view that denies the work of kamma, such as action won't produce result. This is the kind of view one should abstain from and avoid. "And what is right ...

29. The Four Noble Truths
(Teachings/The Four Noble Truths)

... law which indicates a continuation of the life-process. It is a continuation by way of cause and effect, the cause being (Kamma) or volitional actions, and the effect (vipaka) or the pleasant, unpleasant ...

30. Does chanting "Namo Amitaba" actually give next birth to Pure Land?
(FAQs/Buddha's Teachings)

In Buddhism we talk about kamma, and without kamma nothing is possible. Kamma is intention; so if the chanter's every intention is pure and good, many wholesome kamma will accumulate. However, one must ...

31. The Buddha's Life
(History/General)

... after expiring from there, one reappears in the Kamma existences and goes through the sufferings again. It is not the doctrine of the undying that I am looking for." Thus becoming indifferent to the ...

32. Kamma
(Category)