Buddhist Karma & Rebirth Explained

The law of karma and rebirth is one of the bedrock teachings of the Buddha. It is also one of the most problematic ones. ⭐Join our seekers community and access exclusive content: https://www.patreon.com/seeker2seeker 💰PayPal Donation: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=28CCPBHAFUUX8 ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ You can read the script of this video here: https://simeonbmihaylov.substack.com/p/buddhist-karma-and-rebirth-explained?r=2ci2qo 📚 Recommended Reading ▶ James P. McDermott: Karma and Rebirth in Early Buddhism ▶ Damien Keown: Karma, Character, and Consequentialism ▶Matthew MacKenzie: Enacting Selves, Enacting Worlds: On The Buddhist Theory of Karma ▶ Luis O. Gomez: Some Aspects of the Free-Will Question in the Nikāyas ▶Bhikkhu Analayo: Rebirth In Early Buddhism ▶Lynken Ghose: Karma and the Possibility of Purification ▶ Walpula Rahula Thero: What the Buddha Taught ▶ Thich Nhat Hanh: The Heart of the Buddha's Teaching ▶ Rupert Gethin: Foundations of Buddhism https://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/nyanatiloka/wheel394.html#ch2 https://www.accesstoinsight.org/lib/authors/bodhi/bps-essay_46.html Free access to Early Buddhist scripture: https://www.dhammatalks.org/ebook_index.html Access 100 scholarly articles for free every month by creating a JSTOR account (I am not affiliated with them, it's just a good resource): https://www.jstor.org/ ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎶 Music used ▶ original S2S score by @RMSounds ▶ YouTube Audio library and various Public Domain recordings ▶Healing by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Source: http://incompetech.com/music/royalty-free/index.html?isrc=USUAN1200048 Artist: http://incompetech.com/ ▶Unfoldment, Revealment, Evolution, Exposition, Integration by Chris Zabriskie is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Source: http://chriszabriskie.com/reappear/ Artist: http://chriszabriskie.com/ Check out the amazing beats by RM Sounds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ecEIcMibwc4&ab_channel=RMSounds ━━━━━━━━━━━━━ ⌛ Timestamps 00:00 Intro 01:50 karma definition 03:53 karma = law of nature 07:28 bright vs dark karma 10:24 rebirth & no-self 14:07 desire creates existence 16:15 karma vs free will 18:34 karma & rebirth summary 20:50 where is karma stored? 23:13 early Buddhist unconscious 25:59 personal karma without a person 28:09 human existence is a precious opportunity 30:15 freeing yourself from the cycle of rebirths 33:50 enlightenment, nirvāṇa 36:37 the law of karma = unfalsifiable 38:54 Buddhism & faith 40:21 benefits of believing in karma & rebirth #buddhism #karma # rebirth #spirituality #dharma #dhamma #philosophy