Theos-Talk Archives (February 1999 Message tt00070)

>>From what I understand of most Tibetan Lamas they renounce Nirvana in
advance and deliberately accumulate karma to avoid it....this would
indicate that if they were to achieve liberation upon death they would
have no way to cause incarnation again...as karma would be zero in
theory.<<

There is no need to "renounce" anything nor to "deliberately accumulate
karma."  The desire to help others is sufficient to bring anyone back
into a new life and it is this desire that separates the Mahayana from
the Therevadin.

Jerry S.

                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                                                        
                                            

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