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The Buddha’s Baggage Everything You Wanted to Know About Karma But Were Afraid to Ask

By Thanissaro Bhikkhu — 2016

Karma and rebirth are often treated as Buddhism’s cultural baggage: a set of Indian beliefs that—either because the Buddha wasn’t thinking carefully, or because his early followers didn’t stay true to his teachings—got mixed up with the dharma even though they don’t fit in with the rest of what he taught.

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