[Buddha-l] A question for Jewish Buddhists

[Ngawang Dorje]

Hi,
 
I think Buddhism is misunderstood here. What is being said is a good or holy person, if commits a bad kamma, the result would be less, compared to an already bad person.
 
This is due not to the unfairness of karma, but the good person has got lots of good karma, so the result of his bad kamma, is overshadowed by his good karma (not that the bad karma dissapear).
 
On the other hand, for an evil person, his bad karma, is also overshadowed by his other bad karma. Hence, it's considered worse, in this sense.
 
The theory of karma here, did not say, a person holding high post or authoritative post. These are two different topics. I would say that if your action hurts more people, then more bad kamma. Say, if you are the prime minister, and your actions hurts the public, then it's worse than another person who did the same thing to a single person.
 
"The [precise working out of the] results of kamma "is an unconjecturable that is not to be conjectured about, that would bring madness & vexation to anyone who conjectured about it." [Acintita Sutta]
http://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/an/an04/an04.077.than.html
 
Regards,
Rahula