VLVL2 (15): Karma and Koans

[Tim Strzechowski]

382.4:  "And according to Sister Rochelle, that Brock obsession, appearing like a cop cruiser in the dark sooner or later down every roadway her life took, had also been afflicting DL's spirit, acting as a major obstacle, this time around, to fulfilling her true karmic project.

'Which is?'  DL had had the boldness to inquire.

'Oh, the usual journey from point A to point B.  But what if this disagreeable little gent was never any destination at all, only the means of transport, maybe only some ticket, one the conductor even forgot to punch?'  Another koan to drive DL crazier, just what she needed."


"In Buddhist teaching, the law of karma, says only this: `for every event that occurs, there will follow another event whose existence was caused by the first, and this second event will be pleasant or unpleasant according as its cause was skillful or unskillful.' A skillful event is one that is not accompanied by craving, resistance or delusions; an unskillful event is one that is accompanied by any one of those things. (Events are not skillful in themselves, but are so called only in virtue of the mental events that occur with them.) 
"Therefore, the law of Karma teaches that responsibility for unskillful actions is born by the person who commits them." [...]

http://www.ncf.carleton.ca/freenet/rootdir/menus/sigs/religion/buddhism/introduction/truths/karma2.html

http://www.chinapage.com/zen/koan1.html

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0156999811/103-4613026-0535829?v=glance




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