Posted in All Posts, Karma & Rebirth, tagged reincarnation on 28 January, 2008 | No Comments »
[summary: anecdotal story of trans-lifetime karma]
Tales of Karma
Karma attracts endless interest in Buddhism, even thought the Buddha himself named it as one of the ‘Imponderables’ - meaning your head will split into pieces before you can understand it fully. Luang Phor Caran disciple and well known Thai writer in both Thai and English Sudassa [...]
Posted in All Posts, Karma & Rebirth, tagged right speech, swearing on 24 December, 2007 | No Comments »
[Summary: follow up to a blog on Right Speech last month, where a woman was arrested for shouting swearwords. At her toilet. Court case results]
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Last month I blogged up the story of a woman in the U.S. who was arrested for swearing at her toilet while in her own home. The toilet had overflowed and [...]
Posted in All Posts, Karma & Rebirth on 6 November, 2007 | No Comments »
Last one from Ananova - this is irresistible. A lesson in observing Samma Vaca (Right Speech) :
Woman charged with swearing at toilet
A Pennsylvania woman is facing a jail sentence after she was arrested for shouting profanities at an overflowing toilet.
Dawn Herb was inside her own home in West Scranton when her neighbour, a police officer, [...]
Posted in All Posts, Karma & Rebirth, tagged karma on 6 November, 2007 | No Comments »
Virtue is its own reward says Christianity. Though Karma is supposed to ensure your rewards will come for your good behaviour it only works mentally. That is to say, if you do a good deed it will add to your self worth, self esteem and integirty, and that I’m afraid, is your reward. Thus if [...]
Posted in All Posts, Karma & Rebirth on 23 August, 2007 | 1 Comment »
This story is just mad enough to be true. The wording may be the key to the issue, but it is amusing anyway …..
from msnbc.com
Aug. 20-27, 2007 issue - In one of history’s more absurd acts of totalitarianism, China has banned Buddhist monks in Tibet from reincarnating without government permission. According to a statement issued [...]
