3. If you do not exist with a permanent identity, can you be held accountable for actions in previous realities (karma) ? If there is no self (no permanent identity), how can any self (person) be judged for past, present or future actions?

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3. If you do not exist with a permanent identity, can you be held accountable for actions in previous realities (karma) ? If there is no self (no permanent identity), how can any self (person) be judged for past, present or future actions?

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3. If you do not exist with a permanent identity, can you be held accountable for actions in previous realities (karma) ?

Firstly, Buddhism teaches a concept called karma in which actions of previous life are transference during rebirth and it is on such fact that your actions have results, and that a future state of mind inhabiting a body directly descended from the one the present you is experiencing, that gives the impression of a continuity of self, the body that mind is conscious of changes slowly enough that each instant of consciousness can identify with the ones before, and you get the illusion of a self. our Mind has already accumulated all of the past deeds in their memory. It will also memorize current and future deeds and pass this along to the next one i. e mind and no one knows the exact time it will show the result (Vipaka). It may be in this life time, next life or beyond.

If there is no self (no permanent identity), how can any self (person) be judged for past, present or future actions? When there is no self, there is a condition of judgment, but there is no one that suffers that judgment