There are two ways. One is the karmic path. The other is the path of Dharma.If you follow the path of karma, you can be born in hell, the divine world, Brahma world, or back to the human world.Then, if one wishes to be reborn in a place of happiness after death in this life or to be born in a place of unimaginable suffering, he should follow the path of karma. But the Lord Buddha did not criticize the person who follows the path of karma and practices charity, virtue, and meditation. The Lord Buddha preached, "Monks. don't be afraid of merit..merit has happiness and rewards."
But there are not two paths to nirvana. Lord Buddha preached and said that there is only one path to nirvana. That path to Nirvana is not a belief or a religious belief or a wish or offering sacrifices. It's just a matter of growing up in practice. That way should be prepared for oneself. It is a spiritual arrangement, not something external
Karma is a very deep scientific subject. It is very difficult for an ordinary human mind to understand.Karma refers to all good and bad activities done by body actions. That is the simplest explanation. Karma refers to all good and bad activities done by words and actions of the body. That is the simplest explanation. It is well known in physics that Newton's third law teaches that every action has an opposite action. It is used practically in modern science. It is a description of physical conditions. Lord Buddha, who lived hundreds of years before Newton, has bequeathed to the world a profound theory of karma that no modern scientist can imagine. Lord Buddha explained that Karma is a universal phenomenon that takes place based on the mind according to cause and effect. If so, the intention is the primary cause of karma.
That's why the Lord Buddha said that everything is based on the mind that precedes the heart. That has been shown in the first two stanzas of the Dhammapada.
Manase Paduttena - Bhasatiwa Karotiwa
Tatho nan dukkha manveti- chakkang wa wahatho padang
All thoughts begin in the mind. Mind is supreme and the mind is made. If one speaks or acts with an impure heart, pain, and reward follow him like the hooves of an ox.
Manase Pasannena - Bhasatiwa Karotiwa
Tatho nan sukkha manveti- chayawa anapayini
All thoughts begin in the mind. Mind is supreme and the mind is made. If one speaks or acts with a pure mind, happiness, and reward follow him like one's shadow that never leaves.
Then very simple teaching about karma has been taught in these two stanzas. The Lord Buddha said that if you think with a mind rooted in intention, and do a certain action with a body or a word, the corresponding good or bad, happiness or suffering results will be received for that action
Experience this thoroughly. Whether you live in Europe, Asia, or Africa, this is common, right? No matter what religion you belong to, Christian, Islam, Jewish, Hindu, or Buddhist, this experience can be seen in your life in general, right? So karma is a universal doctrine. Mind and consciousness are phenomena of the universe. Whether it is as a person or as a spirit or not, this will happen. If there is a consciousness and a mind associated with anybody, intentions will arise according to the data in that mind. According to those intentions, the body or the word will work. It is karma. If that Karma is black Karma or bad evil Karma, the result will be black result or a sad result.
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kammassa komhi(pali)
Karma is its own. done by himself.
kamma dayado (pali)
Karma is endowed.
kamma yoni (pali)
Karma itself is born
kamma bandhu (pali)
karma is the relative'
kamma pati sarano (pali)
Karma is established.
yan kamman karissami kalyanamam va papakam va (pali)
Does any karma, good or bad
thassa dayado bhavissamithi (pali)
What is given by that karma will be received as a gift.
-dasadhamma sutta-
There are four karmas.
What is the Lord Buddha's interpretation of these four karmas?
01.kamman kanhan kanha vipakan (pali)
The evil party has a karma with painful evil consequences.
02.kamman sukkhan sukkha vipakan (pali)
There is a karma of meritorious party which has a happy reward.
03.kamman kanha sukkhan kanha sukkha vipakan (pali)
There is karma in both the bad party and the meritorious party which results in suffering and happiness.
04.kamman akanha akukkan akanha asukka vipakan kammakkhayaaya (pali)
There is a karma that is neither evil nor meritorious, without suffering and reward. That karma exists to destroy karma.
It is very important to reduce this karma. Then what does Lord Buddha point out from these four karmas? He pointed out that if there is any karma with reward, it is the cause of samsara or rebirth. The suffering of this fourfold truth is the noble truth. If we examine this in more detail, we will find a simple answer. If the karma is bad, if it is according to sins, then the reward will be the misery of the world. Whether it is in the four hells or in the human world, there will be a life of suffering. If the karma is meritorious, if it is according to merit, the reward will be a happy life in the worlds of gods and humans.
This refers to the theory of suffering and happiness according to the sins of the evil party and according to the merits of the meritorious party. Then, if we say about it in another way, the fact that there are two black karmas (evil) and white karmas (merits) comes there. According to those two karmas, one has to experience the rewards of the samsara journey. Then the simplest answer is again and again the world itself. Samsara is another name for sorrow.
A person can be in a place where he is happy because of merits or white deeds done for a short period of time. But Lord Buddha said "Vayadhamma Sadkhara". All sankharas or karmas are spent when the rewards of their respective lives are spent. Both merits and demerits are paid. When that happens, after finishing the four hells, a man comes to the sorrows of the world. Similarly, after finishing the divine pleasures, he falls into the sorrows of the four hells. No matter which side you come from, you are drawn to sorrow again and again.
Those who have gone to Brahmaloka through various meditations fall back down. This is what should be understood for the first three points of the above discussion of karma. Then it is important to understand the karmic path and if you walk on the karmic path, you have to understand that the journey is endless. There is karma without suffering, without reward, without evil, without merit. Lord Lovthura Buddha very rarely comes down to the world to teach this way to the living beings of the world.
Dharma path instead of karma path
Many people mistakenly understand that the path of dharma is more possible by renouncing material things and becoming a monk from worldly life. But there is plenty of room in lay life to cultivate the path of Dharma. It is clear that it is open to all those who are willing to cultivate the path of Dharma, whether they are working in lay life, nurturing their husband and wife, or if they wish to leave lay life and become a monk.
Dharma path
Lord Buddha's teachings are based on eliminating karma to experience nirvana. It means that one cannot go to nirvana by accumulating karma. Karma is the things that are done by the mind, body, and the mind through the senses such as eyes, ears, nose, tongue, body, mind, etc. Karma accumulates according to merit, according to sins, according to worldly meditation. According to the accumulated karmas, there will be a future opportunity and the four worlds may be hell, the divine, the human world, and Brahma world. That is why it is said that "Ragakkayas, Dosakkhayas, Mohakkhayas, Kammakkhayas are Nibbana".
By eliminating lust (Raaga), by eliminating hatred (dwesha), by eliminating delusion (Moha), karma is eliminated, and because there is no karma, there is no rebirth. It is nirvana without decay and death.
sources
01.dasadhamma sutta/tipitaka
02.tipitaka/majjima nikaya/samma ditti sutta
03.Dhammapadaya
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