It’s not that the teachings on kamma and rebirth themselves are supposed to make you glad, but when you take them as working hypotheses, you realize that they do open the way to the end of suffering, a path that you can follow to the end of suffering.

"Someone asked me one time: How do the teachings on kamma and rebirth make me happy? And how do the teachings on spontaneously appearing beings make me happy? Well, it’s not that the teachings themselves are supposed to make you glad, but when you take them as working hypotheses, you realize that they do open the way to the end of suffering, a path that you can follow to the end of suffering."

~ Thanissaro Bhikkhu "Happy about Kamma"

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