My View On Karma, Reward & Punishment

(see: Reward & Punishment)

• "I" act, "I" am responsible.
• A higher power (God, law, fate) rewards or punishes.
• Do good → blessings. Do bad → suffering.

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• Actions (karma) bring results (vipāka).
• Not a cosmic judge, just dependent origination (pratītya-samutpāda).
• Intention (cetanā) is the seed — wholesome leads to harmony, unwholesome to Dukkha ( Suffering),
• Ethical conduct (śīla) matters, but it’s functional, not commanded.

• No independent doer (Anatta(No-self)).
• No fixed “good/bad” — only empty appearances (śūnyatā).
• Samsāra and nirvāṇa are not-two.
• “Responsibility” dissolves — just the play of suchness (tathatā).

• Not serving an external God, but recognizing the ground of Awareness (rigpa / Brahman / dharmakāya).
• Bhakti or gratitude = the Self honoring itself.
• No exchange, no contract — just nondual recognition.

• Relative level: karma functions, choices have effects.
• Ultimate level: no agent, no act, no result.
• Only the One Taste (ekarasa), the flow of what-is.