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?
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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.
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Jan 21, 2020, 06:37 AM
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