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Key Wisdom of Buddhism: Nāgasena vs King Milinda – Episode 3
“The Weaver of Karma: Intention Without a Self”
The dawn mist lingers over the monastic grove as King Milinda returns, not with the swagger of a conqueror, but with the quiet urgency of a mind undone. Shaken by Venerable Nāgasena’s chariot analogy, he now wrestles with its most unsettling consequence: If no permanent “I” exists, then who reaps the fruit of good or evil deeds? How can rebirth occur without a soul to carry it?
Seated beneath the ancient sala trees, Nāgasena meets the king’s crisis not with abstraction, but with luminous clarity. He introduces cetanā, volition, intention, as the hidden thread that binds action to consequence, weaving continuity across lifetimes without requiring a self. Like the flame that passes from one lamp to another, not the same, yet not wholly different, so too does karmic energy flow through the stream of conditioned aggregates.
✨ What you’ll witness:
• A profound unpacking of karma as intention, not destiny, rooted in the Buddha’s teaching: “Cetanāhaṃ, bhikkhave, kammaṃ vadāmi” (“It is intention, monks, that I call karma”)
• The king’s skepticism gives way to awe as Nāgasena illustrates rebirth through the metaphor of a sown seed: neither identical to the fruit, nor unrelated
• Serene Thai monastic mise-en-scène, golden light filtering through leafy canopies, alms bowls resting in quiet symmetry, the deliberate cadence of Pali recitation, elevates philosophical tension into sacred theater
• A nuanced distinction between conventional truth (sammuti-sacca) and ultimate truth (paramattha-sacca) that resolves the paradox of moral responsibility in a selfless universe
📖 Faithful to the Milindapañha, this episode illuminates one of Buddhism’s most misunderstood doctrines, showing how ethics, rebirth, and liberation cohere in a framework of conditioned continuity, not eternalism or annihilation.
🙏 May this dialogue stir saṃvega in your heart and deepen saddhā in the Dhamma’s unshakable logic.
🔔 Coming in Episode 4: The king challenges the very possibility of liberation, if all is impermanent, who attains Nibbāna? Nāgasena responds with the simile of the extinguished flame…