Long before embracing agnosticism, my doubts around karma and rebirth were resolved when it dawned on me that even were they not true, it would not affect my commitment to a Buddhist practice. To live according to Buddhism’s ethical precepts, to apply its instructions on meditation, and to engage with its philosophical ideas seemed sufficiently self-validating and worthwhile in themselves. None of these activities needed to be justified or motivated by arcane theories of multiple lives and karmic causatioṇ
