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Originally Posted by squirell nutkin
Many people's ideas of "Karma" and reincarnation as being a form of payback are misinterpretations based on distortions from the lens of the Judaeo-Christian ideologies.
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Correct, based on my understanding of it. It has little to nothing to do with "payback".
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There isn't a divine judge meting out punishment in Buddhism. (Avoiding a long discussion of the various deities in Tibetan, of which I know next to nothing) In Zen, at any rate, living a moral and ethical existence does not require the existence of a god.
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Correct again. We are all Gods. You are God. I am God. God is us. I know a bit about Tibetan Buddhism, which is my only interest. Karmic rebirth is completely misunderstood.