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Where is the karma located?
Where is the karma located exactly? Thanks.
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Therefore, the results of karma (karma-vipaka) are located in the citta (mind-heart).
:rolleyes:
I'm sorry.... what kind of a question is that?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight_Consciousnesses#A.C4.81layavij.C3.B1.C4.81na
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yogacara#Yog.C4.81c.C4.81ra_and_M.C4.81dhyamaka
but kamma isn't located anywhere... it's an action that is engineered by thought/word/deed - results are visible - kamma isn't.....
And I notice that none of the answers to a simple question, "Where is the (my) karma located?" received a simple answer. All the answers only bring more questions. If it's attached to the seed consciousness, then where is the seed consciousness located? Where is this "mind-heart" supposed to be? Halfway between the heart and mind, in one or the other?
You can say that karma is not a "thing" that you can point to, but it's treated like a thing when Buddhists talk about it. According to what we are taught, karma is something you have, something you carry around, something you accumulate and work off and it can even be sorted into good and bad types of karma.
If it's not a "thing" then why do people treat it like a thing? And if it is a thing, then what is it? Where is it?
@AstralProjectee I like your question. Have any of the answers satisfied you yet?
I like this one "seed consciousness", the alaya vijnana."
Peace!
Where is an idea located? Nowhere, it is silly to speak of the location of an idea.
If I was sitting in front of the Master, I'd smack the floor or some such expected response. All these questions really boil down to one question: "What am I?"
To be clear, these are all good answers people are giving. It's just that they lead to more questions. Eventually, you end up with a simple, "What am I?" Answer that, and you've answered the rest.
lol.
where is your conscience located?
Throwing caution to the wind and indulging in some speculation, we might say that karmic seeds as an abstract, not physical seeds as we know them, bond to individual consciousness and follow it from one rebirth to the next.
Time to move this thread to "Advanced Ideas", now, lol!
'intention is the karma'
so we can find out where our intention lies on
At the other hand; when I move to a different town and I ask a new neighbor for some help; the outcome has nothing to do with kamma.
It’s a mistake to think that what happens to me has some magical connection with previous events. Unless of course you can point out the connection.
It also says: "Citta, [also called] alaya-vijnana, represents the deepest, finest and subtlest aspect or layer of the Aggregate of consciousness. It contains all the traces or impressions of the past actions and all good and bad future possibilities."
The real problem about karmic consequences is that the outside world somehow has to be influenced along lines we don’t see or understand.
When lightning strikes how is it guided at the person with the appropriate karma?
Or was that just bad luck?
That kind of question is “imponderable” because there is no good answer for it...
It's like asking where electricity is....
The best, and still incomplete, answer I can come with is that karma is a direction, a vector, not a thing. Time pushes us along, and when we talk about our karma, we're talking about where our actions have pointed us to. If we are like a boat, some karma directions are taking us into dangerous storms and reefs. Your actions might change the karma, the direction, or take you further along the same path.
And we are in a multitude of boats all sailing along, bumping into each other and shouting at each other. Their actions effect your karma direction and your decisions effect them.
But it's still a metaphor. We aren't boats.