Karma the Mechanism

Author(s): Hermann Kuhn
Publisher: Crosswind Publishing Germany

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KARMA - THE MECHANISM
SUTRAS
7 - the malicious tendency to hurt others 8 - the possession of weapons 9 - all actions that inflict physical and mental pain on ourselves
and others 10 - all actions that restrict other beings in the full unfoldment of
their life, their sense-organs, vitality and breathing' 11 - the desire to see pleasant forms - (this limits our consciousness
to our material environment) 12 - the desire to touch pleasant forms 13 - the desire to imagine and invent new stimulation of the senses
(this restricts the scope of our consciousness to the range of the
senses) 14 - depositing waste in the life-space of other beings 15 - setting down objects without care so that small beings on the
ground may get killed or injured 16 - doing ourselves what could be done by others (thereby mani
festing our attachment to these actions) 17 - admiring hurtful and evil activities and their effects 18 - propagating the mistakes of others 19 - misinterpreting those parts of the scriptures we do not want to
follow 20 - disrespect for external knowledge (teachers and scriptures) be
cause of malice or laziness 21 - engaging in harmful activities or expressing delight at the
harmful activities of others 22 - the tendency to prolong or intensify our attachment to material
objects and activities 23 - any attempt to disturb the spiritual efforts of others and to up
set or destroy their orientation towards growth and their true
knowledge 24 - propagating actions, ideas or concepts based on error and delu
sion