User talk:Moulinaetoile

The entry on Karma states (ref 21) that in Buddhism, covetousness is neutral, karmically. This is noted to be taken from Henry Warren's Victorian-era translation of the Anguttara Nikaya. This would seem to be one of many Victorian-era misunderstandings and misrepresentations of Buddhist texts. Covetousness is greed/grasping. Grasping (attachment) is one of the kleshas, or obstacles - ignorance, egoism, attachment, aversion and clinging to life - which tie the mind ("soul" in Christian thought) to Samsara - the endless round of suffering in rebirth, life and death. The aim of the Buddhist path is escape from this by losing attachment and its related kleshas. It is therefore misleading to describe covetousness as karmically neutral in Buddhism.--Moulinaetoile (talk) 06:13, 5 January 2018 (UTC)