Buddhist "Karma" is a a concept created to enforce the caste system?

[Fiona Dabare]

Woulda known if I did more good karma in my past life

How? Can you explain further?
And what does "Karma" mean and how does it work?

 

[manarrow]

Been a buddhist my entire life but I can't dispute this argument with facts

Been a buddhist in entire life like how? Describe how have you been a buddhist in your life. What is your intention about been a buddhist like how to behave ?

 

[Fiona Dabare]

For me it is just an easy explanation people use to justify shit. It also keep people check because they fear the unknown/unproven stuff. All religions, philosophies are like this

Karmic concept was around even before Gauthama was born. What the Buddha said was that we can't comprehend how it works. There's a metaphor; ඇට පැලකරහම ගහක් හැදිලා මල් එනවා. ඒත් මෙන්න මේ අත්තේ මෙන්න මෙතන මලක් එයි කියලා කියන්න බැහැ..

 

[Uchiha_Nimnora]

So the reason you're born low caste is just coincidence according to buddhism and Karma had nothing to do with it?

Nope. Also Siddhartha was born into a time when the caste system already existed and that was mostly because Hindu society was dominant back then. The caste system was a Hindu social structure, not a Buddhist one. The Buddha saw how harmful it was and basically said, “Nah, this ain’t it.” That’s why he let anyone join the Sangha, no matter their background.

 

[bambuwathamai]

Karma and reincarnation predated buddhism - and originally said to be hindu concepts. Buddha probably tweaked it a little, or wisely did not challenge the concepts (but he was against casteism in hinduism).

Eitherway, both cannot be proven in logical or scientific method.

 

[Fiona Dabare]

How? Can you explain further?
And what does "Karma" mean and how does it work?

Care to answer? @Hyaenidae

I mean, imagine criticizing sth you don't even know

 

[raman2]

Buddhism is talking about improving your inner peace. going after materialistic stuff or getting rich is not promoted in Buddhism..

Most of those things coming from Hinduism..

 

[Fiona Dabare]

Been a buddhist in entire life like how? Describe how have you been a buddhist in your life. What is your intention about been a buddhist like how to behave ?

blud doesn't even know who a buddhist is

fyi @Hyaenidae, being a buddhist means attaining magga-phala. The Noble Eightfold Path begins with Righ-View. (samma-ditti)

prutakjana have no Right-View. only stream entrants and those who have attained higher magga-phala have it.

 

[lilman]

 

[MOZ]

Not created but used

 

[Emios]

You can never know.no one knows the answer.no one knows how karma works.Better to stop using mental energy on these things

 

[Fiona Dabare]

You can never know.no one knows the answer.no one knows how karma works.Better to stop using mental energy on these things

You can never know, yes but you can end the process.

 

[THE_RAIN]

Caste seen එක ගැන කතා කරනකොට මට අපේ නැන්ද කෙනෙක් කියපු කතාවක් මතක් උනා.
ඉස්සර මිනිස්සු කුලමල බලල තියෙන්නෙ ඒක ඒ මිනිස්සුන්ට low caste එකක් එක්ක සෙට් වෙන එකට තියන ලැජ්ජාව , ego එක , අවනම්බුව නිසාම නෙමේ කියන එක. ඒකත් එකක්. ඒත් තව most important දෙයක් කිවුව
ඒ ඒ caste වලට අදාළ වෙච්ච ඇවතුම් පැවතුම් ගති ලක්ෂණ පුරුදු තියනව කියන එක සහ ඒව නැති කරගන්න එක ගොඩක් අමාරු දෙයක් කියන එක. ඒව ජාන වලින්ම එනව කියල කිවුවෙ
Examples තියනව සමහර අම්මල තාත්තල එයාලගෙ දෙමව්පියන්ට හොරෙන් පැනල ඇවිල්ල කසාද බැදල ඊට පස්සෙ වෙන මිනිස්සු එක්ක ගිහින් ඊට පස්සෙ උන්ගෙ දරුවොත් ඒ විදිහටම කරන අවස්ථා.
ඒවගෙ සමහර පහළ ගති ලක්ශන ඉහල caste එක්ක ගළපගන්න බෑ සහ ජාන වලින් පරම්පරාවෙන් පරම්පරාවට යනව කියන එක.
ඒ නිසාම ඉස්සර මිනිස්සු ගොඩක් දුරට try කරල තියනව තමන්ගෙම caste එකක අය එක්ක සෙට් වෙන්න.
දැනටත් ගොඩක් අය එහෙමයි

elakiri eke dakalama man oya kula scene eka danne
wada karaddi mata set una samahara un , unge surname baluwama godak fishing line eka patte un galle

ammo un ekka inna ba ban kari wada kotiyai

owain passe tama hitagatte kula scene eka balanna ona deyak kiyana eka

kohomath history eke idanma ohoma dewal hadila enne hethuwak athuwane itn

 

[Emios]

You can never know, yes but you can end the process.

Still you will never know.Do you have direct insight onto that your life process will end?

 

[Fiona Dabare]

Still you will never know.Do you have direct insight onto that your life process will end?

How can we truly know anything?
Knowing (නිත්ය දැනගැනීම) is ignorance (අවිද්‍යාව)

 

[Hrithik_Roshan]

Do you even know who a buddhist is?

in theory ;- someone who follows the teachings of buddha

in practice :- someone whose parents are buddhists

 

[Emios]

How can we truly know anything?
Knowing (නිත්ය දැනගැනීම) is ignorance.

Yes it seems a plaucible theory only.

 

[Fiona Dabare]

in theory ;- someone who follows the teachings of buddha

in practice :- someone whose parents are buddhists

nop, I have written above

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Yes it seems a plaucible theory only.

sure it is, it can be anything to you depending on your views (දෘස්ටි)
that is sakkaya-ditti.

 

[manarrow]

blud doesn't even know who a buddhist is

fyi @Hyaenidae, being a buddhist means attaining magga-phala. The Noble Eightfold Path begins with Righ-View. (samma-ditti)

prutakjana have no Right-View. only stream entrants and those who have attained higher magga-phala have it.

Correct and there's something else I want to add to this. To understand what's been said, one must first associate with Kalyana Mitra (Buddhist monks), listen to the Dhamma, and then wisely reflect on the Dhamma that was heard. If someone had done these things, they wouldn't be asking this kind of question here now.

 

[Fiona Dabare]

Kalyana Mitra (Buddhist monks)

Kalyana Mitra means someone who has attained Magga-Phala. Can be a monk or a layperson as well.

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If someone had done these things, they wouldn't be asking this kind of question here now.

yep, all thease questions originate from Wrong-View.