Dhamma - one law, two paths?
score:2
Its two laws with two paths (MN 117). Standard Theravada. Dhammaniyama vs kammaniyama.
Kamma niyama is a general rather than absolute law. Do good, get good. Do bad, get bad. But there can also be do good, get bad and do bad, get good (MN 136).
For example, you are a perfect husband & father but your wife & children die in a car accident, from which you suffer greatly, even become suicidal. Here, you do good but reap bad.
Or you ignorantly perform a bad deed, such as get a girlfriend, without commitment. Eventually, she falls in love with you but you are not interested in getting married and you break her heart. You learn such heedless Cultural Marxist relationships are wrong & Satanic. You give up this Cultural Marxist sexual misconduct, enter the stream and become an Arahant. You do bad but get good.
MN 117 says the general kamma law includes attachment/acquisition (upadhi). In other words, ordinary kamma law is about "I do good, I get good. I do bad, I get bad". Since 'self-view' is always part of ordinary kamma law, suffering will always be inevitable in ordinary kamma law, even when only good is done. Eventually, suffering will come to the most good person who has not realised the Four Noble Truths (SN 56.102).
For example, you spend your whole life believe in good reincarnation or Eternal Life with Jesus for doing good. But when you are actually dying, you start to have doubts these beliefs are true. You die in fear & confusion. Your widow wife stops believing in god and loses her mind. Note: I have witnessed this with the most devout Christian couple I have ever seen, where their son is a mystic.
Dhamma Niyama is the absolute Dhamma Law of Dependent Origination (SN 12.20), as follows:
Whether Realized Ones arise or not, this law of nature persists, this regularity of natural principles, this invariance of natural principles, specific conditionality.
Uppādā vā tathāgatānaṃ anuppādā vā tathāgatānaṃ, ṭhitāva sā dhātu dhammaṭṭhitatā dhammaniyāmatā idappaccayatā.
SN 12.20
Whenever there is attachment & becoming, there will always be suffering.
In addition, the Three Characteristics of impermanence, unsatisfactoriness & not-self are also Dhamma Nikaya (AN 3.136).
The Buddhist commentaries describe five categories of natural law or niyama. They are:
Utuniyama: the natural law pertaining to physical objects and changes in the natural environment, such as the weather; the way flowers bloom in the day and fold up at night; the way soil, water and nutrients help a tree to grow; and the way things disintegrate and decompose. This perspective emphasizes the changes brought about by heat or temperature.
Bijaniyama: the natural law pertaining to heredity, which is best described in the adage, "as the seed, so the fruit."
Cittaniyama: the natural law pertaining to the workings of the mind, the process of cognition of sense objects and the mental reactions to them.
Kammaniyama: the natural law pertaining to human behavior, the process of the generation of action and its results. In essence, this is summarized in the words, "good deeds bring good results, bad deeds bring bad results."
Dhammaniyama: the natural law governing the relationship and interdependence of all things: the way all things arise, exist and then cease. All conditions are subject to change, are in a state of affliction and are not self: this is the Norm.
More post
- 📝 Importance of making and sharing merit
- 📝 Buddhism Society & Action
- 📝 Concentration Meditation and Alertness
- 📝 When to let things let go and when to fight for them?
- 📝 What exactly is Jhana?
- 📝 Do Asimov's three laws make a robot a Buddhist?
- 📝 What is the meaning of 'Om mani padme hung'?
- 📝 How does the experience of "realisation of Sunyata" differ from "realisation of Anatta"?
- 📝 How to regain Enlightenment?
- 📝 Tolerance – Buddhist in Countries with a Non-Buddhist Majority
- 📝 If devas are real, than why don't they show us themself?
- 📝 Are learning signs and counterpart signs a must to enter jhana?
- 📝 Sila & (Non)Remorse AN 10.1
- 📝 Why did Buddha choose sacred fig for meditating and austerity?
- 📝 Criticism of atman and the vessel analogy
- 📝 What is the reasoning for making a buddhist statue out of gold?
- 📝 Other people may misinterpret my "calming my mind"
- 📝 Am I feeling pity or compassion?
- 📝 Ledi Sayadaw's "Anatta Dipani" in English? (And Ledi/Saya Thet relationship)
- 📝 "abandoning samyojanas" vs "removing saṅkhāras"
- 📝 Are there canonical texts for secular Buddhism?
- 📝 Did the Thai monk Bhikkhu Buddhadasa teach Anapansati incorrectly?
- 📝 Step siblings and relationships
- 📝 What is the difference between Vijñāna, Manas and Citta?
- 📝 So what's the sense of it all?
- 📝 Was Vipassana discovered by the Buddha (Siddhartha)?
- 📝 Can Buddhism give any justification for military violence?
- 📝 Feeling scared/ having aversion to looking at "pretty" women
- 📝 What are the texts which say or imply what the Buddha looked like?
- 📝 The question of why do we have craving
Source: stackoverflow.com
Search Posts
Related post
- 📝 Dhamma - one law, two paths?
- 📝 How should one teach the Dhamma to others?
- 📝 What is meant by statement "the one who sees Dhamma sees dependent origination"?
- 📝 Dhamma makes one dispassionate then how can one be compassionate?
- 📝 About two qualities of the Dhamma
- 📝 Can there exist two Dalai Lamas at one instance of time?
- 📝 The Law of One Form
- 📝 Want a simple explanation that sense restraint is an important aspect of ethical conduct, for a loved one who is not into Dhamma
- 📝 Is it right, according to the Vinaya, to charge for Dhamma classes? (I'm not talking about donations, but a fixed amount per class one has to pay)
- 📝 Should one who follows the Dhamma give drugs to the dying to ease thier suffering?
- 📝 Sutta request: One should be fed before being able to listen to a Dhamma talk
- 📝 Is buddha's paths corrupt as no one attains the goal nowadays? (or are they?)
- 📝 Should one give to beggars?
- 📝 Caught between two worlds
- 📝 How concentrated is access concentration and how would one recognise it?
- 📝 Why should one develop compassion?
- 📝 How does one practice mindfulness during thinking - e.g. thinking about how to solve a problem?
- 📝 Can one learn meditation on their own?
- 📝 Can one practice meditation to gain knowledge about the universe?
- 📝 How does one explain consistency within phenomena if the mind generates phenomena?
- 📝 Can a person live by the Dhamma and have another religion as well?
- 📝 Does being in a commited married life make it impossible to attain Nirvana? If not, how can one progress towards Nirvana?
- 📝 In meditation, should one pursue tranquility first, prior to looking for insight?
- 📝 Who said 'if you are too busy meditate for two hours'?
- 📝 How does one Realize emptiness?
- 📝 How does one become a lay Buddhist?
- 📝 Are there Theravada meditation retreats that allow one to work for room and board?
- 📝 What if there was no one to offer food to monastics?
- 📝 What is Buddhist law of marriage ? Is there any?
- 📝 Was Buddha one man?