Kamma & Dreams
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Kamma & Dreams
I was wondering do you produce kamma when you dream?
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Hi uniformsquare,
I have a theory that it's the other way around: What you dream is a result of past kamma (often what you've been doing or thinking about that day is reflected in the dream state).
I might be wrong about this...
With Metta,
Guy
I have a theory that it's the other way around: What you dream is a result of past kamma (often what you've been doing or thinking about that day is reflected in the dream state).
I might be wrong about this...
With Metta,
Guy
Four types of letting go:
1) Giving; expecting nothing back in return
2) Throwing things away
3) Contentment; wanting to be here, not wanting to be anywhere else
4) "Teflon Mind"; having a mind which doesn't accumulate things
- Ajahn Brahm
1) Giving; expecting nothing back in return
2) Throwing things away
3) Contentment; wanting to be here, not wanting to be anywhere else
4) "Teflon Mind"; having a mind which doesn't accumulate things
- Ajahn Brahm
Re: Kamma & Dreams
uniformsquare wrote:I was wondering do you produce kamma when you dream?
there is only kamma when there is an intention. action without intention is not kamma.2. ANGUTTARA VI,63
Cetanáham bhikkhave kammam vadámi; cetayitvá kammam karoti káyena vácáya manasá.
Action (kamma), monks, I say is intention (cetaná); intending, one does action by body, by speech, by mind.
best wishes, acinteyyo
Thag 1.20. Ajita - I do not fear death; nor do I long for life. I’ll lay down this body, aware and mindful.
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So if a trucker in an eighteen wheeler inadvertantly runs over you whilst he's texting his wife, then there's no kamma for you or the trucker...there is only kamma when there is an intention. action without intention is not kamma.
Ouch!!!
k
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there would be kammic consequenses here, as it was an intentional action to not pay attention to ones duties (driving)kannada wrote:So if a trucker in an eighteen wheeler inadvertantly runs over you whilst he's texting his wife, then there's no kamma for you or the trucker...there is only kamma when there is an intention. action without intention is not kamma.
Ouch!!!
k
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He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them.
But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion …
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He must be able to hear them from persons who actually believe them … he must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form.
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He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them.
But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion …
...
He must be able to hear them from persons who actually believe them … he must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form.
John Stuart Mill
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Ah! But the truck driver was texting his wife, she was depressed and threatening harm to her children and suicide to herself. The hapless truck driver was trying to convince her not to go ahead with her intentions. He was trying (intending) to fulfil his role as husband and father when the accident happened. She was intending to create harm to herself and her children. I was intending to cross the road (wearing a black and white striped suit whilst walking on a zebra crossing ). The interplay of intention begins to look somewhat complex...Manapa wrote:their would be kammic consequenses here, as it was an intentional action to not pay attention to ones duties (driving)kannada wrote:So if a trucker in an eighteen wheeler inadvertantly runs over you whilst he's texting his wife, then there's no kamma for you or the trucker...there is only kamma when there is an intention. action without intention is not kamma.
Ouch!!!
k
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nice story. but manapa already said it. the trucker's actions and my action are intended, therefore there is kamma and kamma-vipaka. it is not possible to ponder in what an effect a particular action results, that would be nothing more than making assumptions. that's all. besides there is not really kamma for me or the trucker. when one acts intentionally this is kamma. when there is kamma there will be kamma-vipaka. actio -> reactio. there is kamma which leads to more kamma and there is kamma which leads to the cessation of kamma. i.e. there are actions leading to more action and there are actions leading to the cessation of action. akusala kamma (unwholesome actions) and kusala kamma (wholesome actions) means that.kannada wrote:So if a trucker in an eighteen wheeler inadvertantly runs over you whilst he's texting his wife, then there's no kamma for you or the trucker...there is only kamma when there is an intention. action without intention is not kamma.
Ouch!!!
k
best wishes, acinteyyo
Thag 1.20. Ajita - I do not fear death; nor do I long for life. I’ll lay down this body, aware and mindful.
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Ladies and gentlemen ~
Please return to topic.
Thanks
Ben
Please return to topic.
Thanks
Ben
“No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.”
- Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
- Sutta Nipata 3.725
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- Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
- Sutta Nipata 3.725
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I guess my question is do we still have intention in dreams?
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In a normal dream? I don't know but my guess would be 'no'. In a lucid dream? I think so, yes. Perhaps this is something a Vajrayana practitioner could shed some light on?uniformsquare wrote:I guess my question is do we still have intention in dreams?
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I think you and everyone else should be able to answer this question from his/her own experience. My dreams are more than just passive observing. I intend to run away, to have sex, to kill, to fly, to whatever ... All that is intention.uniformsquare wrote:I guess my question is do we still have intention in dreams?
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Hi Ben,Ben wrote:Ladies and gentlemen ~
Please return to topic.
Thanks
Ben
Sorry if my post seemed off-topic. I was trying to understand the Buddhist version of kamma re: intention via my hypothetical scenarios. I am more familiar the Hindu perspective of kamma being more a cause/effect process, the Buddhist view interests me but not by any means convinces me. As per my examples above 'intention' may only account for a small fraction of actual results, each of which can profoundly effect an outcome from unforseen cicrumstances. A dreamer might be deeply effected by his dream so much that his life would be altered therefrom hence an unintended karmic result...
Manapa and Acinteyyo...
Thank you kindly for your repsonses
Regards
k
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Hi kannada
I understand, but your off-topic meanderings was derailing this thread.
By all means start another thread on the aspect of kamma that you wish to explore.
OK, enough meta-discussion, let's return to topic.
Kind regards
Ben
I understand, but your off-topic meanderings was derailing this thread.
By all means start another thread on the aspect of kamma that you wish to explore.
OK, enough meta-discussion, let's return to topic.
Kind regards
Ben
“No lists of things to be done. The day providential to itself. The hour. There is no later. This is later. All things of grace and beauty such that one holds them to one's heart have a common provenance in pain. Their birth in grief and ashes.”
- Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
- Sutta Nipata 3.725
Compassionate Hands Foundation (Buddhist aid in Myanmar) • Buddhist Global Relief • UNHCR
e: [email protected]..
- Cormac McCarthy, The Road
Learn this from the waters:
in mountain clefts and chasms,
loud gush the streamlets,
but great rivers flow silently.
- Sutta Nipata 3.725
Compassionate Hands Foundation (Buddhist aid in Myanmar) • Buddhist Global Relief • UNHCR
e: [email protected]..
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Re: Kamma & Dreams
I suppose sometimes there maybe a possibility of this happening, I know I have felt the same way after dreaming something vividly (this happends rarely don't usually remember dreams at all) so I would guess it may depend on if we are asleep or semi-asleep, and how we react to the dream once awake (does it continue to affect us or do we start afresh?)uniformsquare wrote:I was wondering do you produce kamma when you dream?
PS Sorry for engaging in off topic parts I thought it was part of the discussion from the original poster at the time (seriously where is the slap own face emoticon!!!)
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He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them.
But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion …
...
He must be able to hear them from persons who actually believe them … he must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form.
John Stuart Mill
He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them.
But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side, if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion …
...
He must be able to hear them from persons who actually believe them … he must know them in their most plausible and persuasive form.
John Stuart Mill
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Hi All,
Last night I had a lucid dream, I was being chased by a glass of orange juice who somehow represented a friend I had in high school and at some point I must have realized that glasses of orange juice aren't people and so I became lucid. At which point my first intentional action within the dream for some reason was to create a bow and arrow and shoot at a speed limit sign - would this be considered kamma, considering I was aware of the fact I was dreaming and I intended to do something?
With Metta,
Guy
Last night I had a lucid dream, I was being chased by a glass of orange juice who somehow represented a friend I had in high school and at some point I must have realized that glasses of orange juice aren't people and so I became lucid. At which point my first intentional action within the dream for some reason was to create a bow and arrow and shoot at a speed limit sign - would this be considered kamma, considering I was aware of the fact I was dreaming and I intended to do something?
With Metta,
Guy
Four types of letting go:
1) Giving; expecting nothing back in return
2) Throwing things away
3) Contentment; wanting to be here, not wanting to be anywhere else
4) "Teflon Mind"; having a mind which doesn't accumulate things
- Ajahn Brahm
1) Giving; expecting nothing back in return
2) Throwing things away
3) Contentment; wanting to be here, not wanting to be anywhere else
4) "Teflon Mind"; having a mind which doesn't accumulate things
- Ajahn Brahm