Thread: Does a mental disabled person accumulate karma ?

Originally Posted by VagalTone

That's an implicit important question, but i am asking about karma . That´s a different field of knowledge. It has no other implications beyond religion, i hope.

Conversely, you can answer many questions with the best scientific evidence and still get another answer or perspective by religion, because they have different modes of inquiry and different biases.

You can answer that implicit question but it won´t change centuries of religious philosophy.

So in short, i want an answer based on tibetan buddhism philosophy, not in science.

But the implications of the question aren't based solely in karma (or science or other religions or anything), and your question regarding karma is built on the question.

At the fundamental level, you're asking if actions (whether their outcome be good or bad) done by someone who couldn't understand (inhibited by mental disability, in your case) their outcomes (be they positive, negative, or neutral, no matter who or what decides what they are [and no matter whether they're positive, negative, or neutral morally or in a different sense]) can be correctly (no matter who or what determines that correctness) attributed to that person. And it's a loaded question, with many schools of thought.

If you're looking for how Tibetan Buddhism's primary texts answer that question for the purposes of, say, a paper on Buddhist principles and beliefs, then it's different. But you said the question only makes sense if you're a Buddhist, which is very untrue.

And if you're asking for the purposes of constructing your own beliefs, you have bigger spiritual problems than the way the disabled accumulate karma.