The first verse of Yamaka Vagga, or The Twin Verses, in the Dhammapada translates to “Mind precedes all mental states. Mind is their chief; they are all mind-wrought. If with an impure mind a person speaks or acts suffering follows him like the wheel that follows the foot of the ox.” In this verse Siddhartha Gautama, better known as Gautama Buddha, teaches that we our shaped by our thoughts. Karma is an underlying reality observed by many religious traditions including Hinduism, Buddhism, and Jainism. Although multiple religions observe karma, the concept has different meanings in each religion. According to the first step of the Noble Eightfold Path, which Buddhists follow in order to achieve liberation from suffering, one must accept the Four Noble Truths and the concepts of rebirth and karma. The Four Noble Truths explain the truth, the cause, the end, and the path to the end of suffering. The Buddhist concept of rebirth can be seen as a wheel of birth and death, or samsara. In Buddhism, karma is a sequence of cause and effect in which everything one does acts as a cause to determine a future phenomenon or action. Karma can be based on what someone does, says, or thinks. After one dies, one is given a …show more content…
However, their concept of karma is very different. Jains do believe that our actions influence our future in our current life and of our lives to come but they see karma as subtle matter. That is, they believe karma is a collection of tiny particles that accumulate on the jiva, or the soul, as we act and think. Jains think that the soul wanders the universe, migrating from one life to another, until it can free itself of karmas. While Buddhism and Hinduism believe in good and bad karma, Jains try to avoid all karma. According to Jainism, there are three basic principles to avoid collecting karma, including ahimsa, aparigraha, and