Last thoughts before death

Oh, by the way, I found it: How does kamma ripen when you die?

Here Ajahn Brahmali addresses the influence of last thoughts (the third type of kamma in the article he’s repsonding to).

I am putting my eggs in whatever basket (pun intended) is believed to be the word of the Buddha through linguistic and historical analysis. :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes: So if one of the foremost experts like Ajahn Brahmali says that the suttas don’t give grounds for a certain belief, and I can see that by looking at the suttas myself; then that’s what I’ll go with. It makes sense to me that the kamma accumulated over a lifetime would have far more effect that one measly thought before death. So really, someone who has been a good person for many years should have nothing to worry about.

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