Mike, Are you now saying that the Buddhist understanding of karma is the same as the modern scientific understanding of cause-and-effect? I didn't think that was what you were saying nor do I believe that's the case. The reason I don't believe it is because you (and most Buddhists out there) assign a good/bad valuation to the 'cause' which is passed on to the 'effect' of set of karmic events. Science (the last I checked) does not.
That's why I specified karma as a Buddhist belief, although I also think it is a core belief in most (maybe all) religions. ...Bill! --- In [email protected], uerusuboyo@... wrote: > > Bill!,<br/><br/>How is it just a Buddhist belief?! Who else denies cause and > effect accept you? I agree with David Hume that it is difficult to pinpoint a > necessary connection in a train of cause and effect events (Was it the > darkness of the room that caused me to turn on the light or was it the > flicking of the switch or the electric current or the heating of the > filaments etc.), but that still doesn't rule out cause and effect; it's just > difficult to breakdown). Even Hume said causality is the "cement of the > universe".<br/><br/>Mike<br/><br/><br/>Sent from Yahoo! Mail for iPad > ------------------------------------ Current Book Discussion: any Zen book that you recently have read or are reading! Talk about it today!Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Zen_Forum/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Zen_Forum/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: [email protected] [email protected] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [email protected] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
