Do you have to have certain pastlife karma to use a computer?
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Karma need not be manifested physically. A poor rebirth need not be rebirth as a poor person, a person who's despised, or one who can't access a computer. In fact, you can have someone who is filthy rich, admired by all, who is still suffering far more than someone who is penniless and hated.
That's because suffering is in the mind.
To even suggest that material "well-being" is a result of Karma is to imply that happiness is physical, which is an implicit rejection of what Buddhism teaches, that it's what's within (e.g.: desire, clinging to self) that cause suffering and not one's material circumstances.
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Karma is a complex dhamma that only Buddha saw it thru and thru.. However, Buddha taught us 6 things to know about the fundamentals of karma
For sure, Karma is not a fate. In Angulimala Sutta, a Sutta about a misguided serial killer who would have committed matricide if Buddha didn't interfere with his killing mission.
You can give $20 to someone but then you will never know if it was his good karma that let him run into you? or his good karma that you have money to share. Karma is a complex thing that is imponderable or incomprehensible, Acinteyya (Pali).
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