Mike, I'm also very well aware of Hume's writings on causation.
I'll take away from your post below your thought, "Karma is also not fatalistic, so can be changed if we begin practicing more wholesome thoughts/actions. This of course makes it different from the mechanistic view of causality." And I will disregard your last statement "Hume's analysis fits in nicely with the more complex view of karma I described above." Now all is well... ...Bill! --- In [email protected], uerusuboyo@... wrote: > > Bill!,<br/><br/>I was trying to point out what might be causing (!) your > confusion regarding cause and effect - my view of karma hasn't changed in the > least. The cause and effect taught by the Buddha is similar in principle to > the modern scientific view, but does go beyond a simple, mechanistic > description of cause and effect (such as which direction a billiard ball will > go when struck by another). It's more complex than that in the sense that an > action produces a 'seed' of potential karmic consequences which could take a > long time to play out (which is why we need to be mindful of each and every > thought and action). Karma is also not fatalistic, so can be changed if we > begin practicing more wholesome thoughts/actions. This of course makes it > different from the mechanistic view of causality.<br/><br/>I referred to Hume > because he pointed out the impossibility of pin-pointing precisely the > necessary cause in a sequence of cause and effect actions (Which > also doesn't necessarily deny cause and effect which is why I included his > quote that "causality is the cement of the universe"). Hume's analysis fits > in nicely with the more complex view of karma I described > above.<br/><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/
