Okay, given your own interactions with others in which the behaviors you choose are thought to be more or less enlightened, precipitating an incarnation of karma that you’d prefer leading eventually to a reincarnation that you’d hope for leading or not leading to whatever you construe Nirvana to be, what on earth is the above actually in relationship to.
How, from day to day, given the life you that actually live, might you explain this particular “general description intellectual contraption”?
Or, instead, is this world of words meant solely to create a “psychological state” that comforts and consoles you “spiritually” in, for example, a world being ravished by the coronavirus.
Speaking of which how exactly would Buddhists go about conveying something analogous to an explanation of how and why their own equivalent of God – the universe? – allows something like this to exist at all? Let alone the occasional “extinction event” that profoundly cripples the evolution of life on planet Earth.
And, let’s face it, in the next one, our own species is likely to be included when that Big One hits.