The kamma of silence and/or "not acting"?
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I think the Sangha primarily exists to maintain the Noble Dhamma in the world for those few who search for liberation from the world.
When the world becomes rotten to the core, such as the American and most governments, and when these governments become totalitarian (which is gradually occurring), for bhikkhus to criticize these governments may endanger the Sangha and the maintenance of the Dhamma.
Ultimately, the Dhamma is lokuttara. Ultimately, the Buddha did not arise in the world to teach about kamma, worldly sila or sīlabbata-parāmāsa.
'Kamma' is not actually a teaching of the Buddhas. The Buddhas teach the following:
Bhikkhus, this Dhamma taught by me is unrefuted, undefiled, irreproachable, and uncensured by wise ascetics and brahmins. And what is the Dhamma taught by me that is unrefuted, undefiled, irreproachable, and uncensured by wise ascetics and brahmins?
‘These are the six elements’: this, bhikkhus, is the Dhamma taught by me that is unrefuted … uncensured by wise ascetics and brahmins. ‘These are the six bases for contact’ … ‘These are the eighteen mental examinations’ … ‘These are the four noble truths’: this, bhikkhus, is the Dhamma taught by me that is unrefuted, undefiled, irreproachable and uncensured by wise ascetics and brahmins.
AN 3.61
'Kamma' teachings the Buddha said are defiled with attachment, as follows:
And what is the right view with effluents, siding with merit, resulting in acquisitions? 'There is what is given, what is offered, what is sacrificed. There are fruits & results of good & bad actions. There is this world & the other world.
MN 117
Kamma is this world & the other world; where as Nibbana is not this world & not another world.
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