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Noble Strategy Karma
… Although many ancient concepts of karma are fatalistic, the early Buddhist concept was not fatalistic at all. In fact, if we look closely at early Buddhist ideas of karma, we’ll find that they give even less importance to myths about the past than most modern people do. For the early Buddhists, karma was non-linear. Other Indian schools believed that karma operated in …
Noble Strategy The Healing Power of the Precepts
… In other words, they don’t force you to measure yourself in terms of your looks, strength, brains, financial prowess, or any other criteria that depend less on your present karma than they do on karma from the past. Also, they don’t play on feelings of guilt or force you to bemoan your past lapses. Instead, they focus your attention on the ever …
Noble Strategy One Tool Among Many
… These questions are applied to every instance of the ﬁve aggregates, whether “past, future, or present; internal or external; blatant or subtle, common or sublime, far or near.” In other words, the meditator asks these questions of all experiences in the cosmos of the six sense media. This line of questioning is part of a strategy leading to a level of knowledge called “knowing …
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