[Buddha-l] Bangladesh Muslim lovefest

[Erik Hoogcarspel]

Op 01-10-12 18:58, Dan Lusthaus schreef:
>> It's interesting to to note that the Buddha advised pretty strongly 
>> against blaming people.
>
> On the contrary, unlike the attempts to make the specifics of the 
> situation dissolve into generalized abstraction, for Buddha there was 
> no such thing as disembodied generalities that did anything or that 
> incurred any karma. Karma belongs to the people who do the action, and 
> it is they to whom responsibility and consequences were assigned.
Karma means that the agent bears some consequences of his deed, but it 
is not about responsability, Karma is not a judge. One is responsable to 
a person for something. Responsability is total, karma was in the time 
of the Buddha just a fact of life and despite Gampopa's later musings no 
one knows it's mechanics (if this exists at all).
As this link shows, objective info is scarce. 
http://elevenmyanmar.com/national/834-public-outcry-in-sittwe-over-rakhine-boy-murder-rumor

Erik