Say 10% of cars will experience a crash at some stage in their existence. This statistic never changes. It is also an irrelevant statistic. The point is not whether "a" car has a crash but whether "my" car has a crash!
When we buy a car we end up in a lottery, not because we have a car but because we now feel that a car is part of us... it has become mine. If the car crashes so does a part of us.
The intelligent person thus won't own a car. At least it isn't them.
The wise person will be able to "own" a car but not let it become part of them. In a sense then the ownership is simply practical and on paper - in reality they see the car like all other cars.
Isn't this all that "non-attachment" is? Isn't this all that the Arahant needs to become wise to.
Substitute body, perceptions, consciousness and soul for car and you have the full achievement of enlightenment.
Thus Karma is not the happening of things - it is the happening of things "to me". It is that we attach to certain things that makes it "happen to me" - not the happenings themselves.
Things can only happen to you if you first make things "yours" - whether you do this is 100% your choice.
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