The flawed aspects of beings who are supposed be unflawed are often underplayed, but this hypothesis poses a concept of karma that hasn’t been discussed yet: that karma still must balance itself out, even if one is a buddha. While Buddha had collected good karma from the “practice of past virtue” (p. 54) that is superior to that of even the gods, he was still subject to forces that were even larger than him. Is karma even more powerful than the Buddha, and can he be subjected to bad karma if he is supposed to be the most pure and awesome
The flawed aspects of beings who are supposed be unflawed are often underplayed, but this hypothesis poses a concept of karma that hasn’t been discussed yet: that karma still must balance itself out, even if one is a buddha. While Buddha had collected good karma from the “practice of past virtue” (p. 54) that is superior to that of even the gods, he was still subject to forces that were even larger than him. Is karma even more powerful than the Buddha, and can he be subjected to bad karma if he is supposed to be the most pure and awesome