Max Pamies i del Campo's Key Ideas from The True Teaching on Amida Buddha and His Pure Land
by Jōshō Adrian Cîrlea

Besides its definition, Self has its own characteristics.

Self is characterised by dynamism. This is called the "no-ego doctrine".

Let's exemplify this dynamism:

• Look back to to when you were 3 years old and remember how you acted, what were your thoughts...
• Now take look to your actual Self and realize how those ways of acting and thinking have changed.

See? This is what dynamism of Self is about.

This dynamism/movement is fueled by Desire and Craving.

Our desires and cravings shape our personal history and generate karma.

Karma is the Cause and Effect Law.

The term "karma" comes from the Sanskrit word "karman" which means to act with thoughts, deeds and words.

In conclusion, there are 3 types of karma:

• Of thought
• Of word
• Of action/body

Karma lasts forever and determines our birth in another life.

Now we have reached Rebirth.

At the moment of death, our personal karma determines the form and vehicle, the body that the mindstream will have in the next birth.

Karma teaches us that we're fully responsible of what we are and what we'll become.

We deserve what happens to us even if it is difficult to accept.