Kamma creates Future!

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Behaviour determines the Future of all beings!


The young brahmins Vāsettha and Bhāradvāja once asked Blessed Buddha:
What makes a brahmin a brahmin? Whereto the Blessed One responded:
Not by pure descent from seven generations of ancestors does one become 
a brahmin, and neither by family descent does one become a non-brahmin. 
By kamma one becomes a brahmin. By kamma one also becomes a non-brahmin.
By kamma one becomes a farmer. By kamma one becomes a craftsman.
By kamma one becomes a merchant. By kamma one becomes a servant.
By kamma one becomes a thief. By kamma one becomes a killer too.
By kamma one becomes a priest. By kamma one becomes even a king.
Knowing the fruit of causal effects of any kamma, the wise gains complete
understanding of conditioned origination and sees this kamma as it really is!
By kamma is phenomena determined, by kamma the world goes on, and by 
kamma the people go on. Beings are bounded, conditioned & created by their 
behaviour! By self-taming, by self-control, and by living the Noble life, only by such 
supremely pure behaviour does one becomes a brahmin. Whoever is endowed 
with the three knowledges (te-vijja), at peace, with renewed existence all 
destroyed, Vāsettha, such one is like the gods Brahma and Sakka to those 
who really know! The two brahmins Vāsettha & Bhāradvāja then exclaimed: 
Wonderful, venerable Gotama! We hereby accept the venerable Gotama, the 
Dhamma, and the Bhikkhu Sangha as our refuge. May the Venerable Gotama 
accept us as lay disciples who have taken refuge as long as this life lasts...
Sutta-Nipāta verses 650-656 Edited excerpt.

For details on the mechanics of Kamma = Intentional Action see:
Buddha_on_Kamma.htm
Good_Action_dilutes_Evil_Kamma.htm
Kamma_leading_to_short_vs_long_life.htm
Kamma_leading_to_Health_vs_Sickness.htm
Kamma_leading_to_Low_or_High_Birth.htm
Kamma_leading_to_Wealth_or_Poverty.htm
Kamma_leading_to_Beauty_vs_Ugliness.htm
Effect_of_kammic_Action_is_Delayed.htm
Kamma_leading_to_Power_or_Disrespect.htm
Evil_Kamma_enhances_other_Evil_Kamma.htm
Good_Action_enhances_other_Good_Kamma.htm
Kamma_leading_to_Stupidity_or_Intelligence.htm

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