How Karma Works: Sincerity and Reciprocity

Описание: We'll take a look at how karma can be made sense of as a real phenomenon in nature and in human society through notions such as sincerity and reciprocity. We'll also look at how some ideas from evolutionary biology demonstrate how karmic ideas can be found in the animal world as well.

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✅ Sutta mentioned:
https://suttacentral.net/an6.63/en/su... (“It is intention that I call deeds.” = "By karma I mean intention." Just a different translation).

✅ Other resources mentioned:
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/al...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recipro...

Carter and Wilkinson, “Food sharing in vampire bats: reciprocal help predicts donations more than relatedness or harassment” https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23282...

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