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Do visual objects have karma?

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> According to Nagarjuna, the second causal link (sankhara, motivations) > and the tenth causal link (bhava, gestation) are two karmas through > which sentient beings trigger seven sufferings identified in the > Twelve Nidanas, and from this arises the revolving rebirth cycles. The 7th link is from contact with the world, and is called Vedana: > Feeling or sensations are of six forms: vision, hearing, olfactory > sensation, gustatory sensation, tactile sensation, and intellectual > sensation (thought). In general, vedanā refers to the pleasant, > unpleasant and/or neutral sensations that occur when our internal > sense organs come into contact with external sense objects and the > associated consciousness. So I take it that when the light [or equivalent in Buddhism] from an object makes contact with the eye organ, it generates Vedana. Is it, then, incorrect to say that the object itself has karma: if the contact and feeling of it is karmically conditioned? ---------- I'm asking because I wondered whether, when the meditator is in the fomrless absorption, or is reborn in a formless realm, she or he still experiences what most people [I know I would] class as the shape of visual consciousness, because this itself is not form, or consciousness, but itself karma.
Asked by user2512
Jan 21, 2020, 06:37 AM
Last activity: Feb 25, 2020, 02:08 PM