Karma with Ajahn Punnadhammo

[@Parivattita]

Most grateful for all your talks, Ven Punnadhammo 🙏🏽

[@dromgarvan]

Thank you.

[@jmj7568]

thank you very much. Ven,Punnadhammo.🙏

[@TashiThreadCraft]

Most explicit discussion on karma. Thanks Ajahn.

[@7125Mhz]

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[@krenx]

In the suttas, Mogallana, one of buddha's great disciples, was being chased by bandits, assassins, out to harm and kill him. Mogallana noticed that pattern, and looked into his past life, and saw the evil karma he did before, and how that is bearing fruit in the form of those bandits attempting to kill him in that current life. He understood that, and eventually allowed that karmic fate to bear fruit in the form of being beaten to death, entering pari nibbana, since he was an arahant. Understanding Kamma is right view. Kamma has to bear fruit eventually. Even if we do not remember or have abilities to see our past lives, kamma happens. Same goes for good kamma. If great luck and blessings, wealth happens in our lives. Sometimes accidentally, it is due to the good merits we did in our past lives. If one accepts that idea with grace, one must also accept that negative kamma in the past bears its own fruit too. Yes it is difficult. But to not see and understand or accept it, life will be full of doubt, confusion, hate, proliferations, delusions, shift of responsibility, and the mind enters that whole mass of suffering we are working to avoid.