Reply To: Why Kamma Vipaka?

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Lal
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Taryal: “One could ask why A should worry about B’s suffering if they’re not the same.”

Let us recall that Yash started this discussion with: “Let’s say A has done a bad deed and after dying ,many births later, it has been born as B.”

  • So, A cannot worry about B because B will be in the future.

Now, we can see the truth of Taryal’s subsequent statement: ”  In a way, the same thing happens in a single lifetime too, right? Each citta arises and passes away but the “momentary perception” of self is always there. When a toddler grows into an adult human, it becomes a totally different person but there is a continuity (since it is the same life stream) which is why when a human thinks about their past, there is the perception that it is the same person.”

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