Nagarjuna's Middle Way: Mulamadhyamakakarika (Classics of Indian Buddhism) by Siderits Mark & Katsura Shoryu

Author:Siderits, Mark & Katsura, Shoryu [Siderits, Mark]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781614290612
Publisher: Wisdom Publications
Published: 2013-04-22T00:00:00+00:00

The unperishing, one’s karmic debt, is not left behind just by understanding the four noble truths—that is, understanding how all acts of appropriation lead to suffering. Such understanding leads to the abandonment of those ways of being, such as the life of the householder, that generate new karmic debt. But it does not by itself eliminate the unperishing dharmas generated by actions in the present life prior to one’s attaining understanding. This karmic debt can only be escaped in one of two ways: through the path of meditation or “otherwise”—which the commentators explain as rebirth on a different plane of existence, something attained by advanced practitioners approaching liberation. Short of these, such dharmas will produce the appropriate fruit.

prahāṇataḥ praheyaḥ syāt karmaṇaḥ saṃkrameṇa vā |

yadi doṣāḥ prasajyeraṃs tatra karmavadhādayaḥ || 16 ||

16. If it were to be relinquished by abandonment or by transference of the action,

various difficulties would result, including the disappearance of the [past] action.

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