Karma is an ideological concept encountered in the Eastern regions, and it tends to explain actions that our good or bad deeds. Experiences are not the result of past actions only, but they can emanate from a natural event. Karma is beyond the implications of life, and bad life or activities can follow an individual to their next life. Therefore, an individual must cultivate good karma to avoid bad luck. For an individual to escape the cycle of rebirth, they must have good karma to attract a pleasant state. The types of karma that affect rebirth are moral habits, karmic conditioning, self-determination, and disability (Choi, 2018). The afflictions that propel rebirth in the wheel of existence are the teachings of new reality after death in a circumstance known as samsara. The three realms of rebirth are Deva (heavenly), Manusya (human), and Asura (demigod). Depending on the first life venture, an individual can have a rebirth of light or darkness.
The Buddhist realm consists of spatial and temporal cosmology in realism. Temporal cosmology entails having a world existence with discrete moments, while spatial cosmology consists of an infinite world such as beauty or lifespan. The rebirth realms include the formless realm, the Arupa Bhumi, and the form realm. People have no physical cosmology in the formless realm because there is no location. Arupa Bhumi entails rebirth through a formless jhana in the previous life. It is also known as the sphere of nothingness (Choi, 2018). Its inhabitants have a location in the form realm, and their bodies are composed of subtle substances. The rebirth brings pleasure and a sense of belonging, but the realm lacks sexual distinction.
The concept of liberation in Buddhism emanates from Nirvana or the cycles of rebirth. According to Buddhism, its beliefs are engulfed within the faith, spirituality, and teachings of Siddhartha Gautama. It believes in truth, misery, the cause of misery, cessation of misery, and the path of cessation (Choi, 2018). The Gita is a conceived liberation, while moksha is the eternal seat beyond birth and death. Whenever someone is liberated, they are known to have no pain and are thought to be supreme perfectionists.
References
Choi, J. (2018). The Buddhist Literature of Ancient Gandhara: An Introduction with Selected Translations by Richard Salomon: Classics of Indian Buddhism. Somerville: Wisdom Publications, 2018. Xxiv + 456 pp. (ISBN: 9781614291688). International Journal of Buddhist Thought and Culture, 28(2), 227-230. Web.