RE: Thoughts on Buddhism
January 30, 2012 at 9:34 am
(This post was last modified: January 30, 2012 at 9:42 am by The Grand Nudger.)
Specifically, the thought that karma is somehow a tumbling lock that can confine one to samsara or liberate one to nirvana. Thusly Karma becomes a magical key to fairy realms....nothing simple, not cause and effect. Karma is a dogma, and was adopted into the existing religious traditions of the 1st millennium BC. A testament to the popularizing effect of "far away places", little pieces of eastern traditions have been gradually creeping into western culture since the British Raj. Many americans have answered in the affirmative when polled about belief in things such as karma or reincaranation...combine that with the statistics regarding christianity and an interesting scenario emerges...interesting to me anyway. Unwittingly or obliviously christo-pagan America. 
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