In every life you perform actions and thus create consequences. Right now you live a life that is shaped by consequences of your past lives. Due to karmic cycles, the same conditions come into your life, and since you do not care for your past lives and your past actions, you keep repeating the same mistakes. Thus you keep up the cycles and keep being born into Samsara.
So, you’re saying that because you want to escape samsara, you care about your future life - even in the abscence of karma.
By taking karma into consideration, this means that you can shape future beings because of the dependency. Does that mean that karma is a necessary condition for caring about your future self?
The conscious work with your karma is necessary. If you you want to enter Nirvana in the future, you need to start dissolving your karma (your behavior, psychological tendencies, etc.) now.
But then how do I know my next life won’t just ruin it all?
I could be born into such a different culture that I wouldn’t even be aware of my actions and consequence.
I’m quite new to Buddhism so apologies if my question is silly.
In every life you perform actions and thus create consequences. Right now you live a life that is shaped by consequences of your past lives. Due to karmic cycles, the same conditions come into your life, and since you do not care for your past lives and your past actions, you keep repeating the same mistakes. Thus you keep up the cycles and keep being born into Samsara.
So, you’re saying that because you want to escape samsara, you care about your future life - even in the abscence of karma.
By taking karma into consideration, this means that you can shape future beings because of the dependency. Does that mean that karma is a necessary condition for caring about your future self?
The conscious work with your karma is necessary. If you you want to enter Nirvana in the future, you need to start dissolving your karma (your behavior, psychological tendencies, etc.) now.
But then how do I know my next life won’t just ruin it all? I could be born into such a different culture that I wouldn’t even be aware of my actions and consequence.
I’m quite new to Buddhism so apologies if my question is silly.