user-1: How do Buddhists who believe in a non momentary conventional self during life account for karma without enlightenment? Specifically, what happens to "my" karma when I die, if I am not enlightened and my karma has not been exhausted?
I'm not asking how to think of cause and result if the lack of self identity extends from moment to moment in this life, because then "my" karma would face a similar obstacle in this life (there being no personal identity from moment to moment means it cannot be "my" karma at all).
Clearly most historical Buddhists believed that karma did not just exist in the suffering I cause others, but that what comes around goes around. So if my life does not, automatically without enlightenment, generate a new one, why doesn't "my" death cut off that cycle?

user-1: 
Specifically, what happens to "my" karma when I die, if I am not enlightened and my karma has not been exhausted?

If one is not enlightened when death occurs, rebirth will take place. That process cannot be stopped as long as there exists greed, hatred and delusion in the mind.

So if my life does not, automatically without enlightenment, generate a new one, why doesn't "my" death cut off that cycle?

Merely dying is not enough to cut off the defilements that cause beings to be reborn. It takes hard work, effort, right view and persistence in training of the Noble Eightfold Path. As long as there exists defilements (greed, hatred and delusion) in the mind death and rebirth will continue to happen. That's a process have been going on for countless of aeons - even the Buddha said that he couldn't see a discernable beginning of the wandering in Samsara.
This process of death and rebirth can only be stopped when a being becomes enlightened. Why is that? Because enlightenment is what destroys and cuts off the root defilements that bind us to Samsara.

-1: <p>How do Buddhists who believe in a non momentary conventional self during life account for karma without enlightenment? Specifically, what happens to &quot;my&quot; karma when I die, if I am not enlightened and my karma has not been exhausted?</p>
<p>I'm not asking how to think of cause and result if the lack of self identity extends from moment to moment in this life, because then &quot;my&quot; karma would face a similar obstacle in this life (there being no personal identity from moment to moment means it cannot be &quot;my&quot; karma at all).</p>
<p>Clearly most historical Buddhists believed that karma did not just exist in the suffering I cause others, but that what comes around goes around. So if my life does not, automatically without enlightenment, generate a new one, why doesn't &quot;my&quot; death cut off that cycle?</p>
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<p>Specifically, what happens to &quot;my&quot; karma when I die, if I am not enlightened and my karma has not been exhausted?</p>
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<p>If one is not enlightened when death occurs, rebirth will take place. That process cannot be stopped as long as there exists <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three_poisons" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><em>greed, hatred and delusion</em></a> in the mind.</p>
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<p>So if my life does not, automatically without enlightenment, generate a new one, why doesn't &quot;my&quot; death cut off that cycle?</p>
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<p>Merely dying is not enough to cut off the defilements that cause beings to be reborn. It takes hard work, effort, right view and persistence in training of the Noble Eightfold Path. As long as there exists defilements (greed, hatred and delusion) in the mind death and rebirth will continue to happen. That's a process have been going on for countless of aeons - <a href="https://www.accesstoinsight.org/tipitaka/sn/sn15/sn15.003.than.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><em>even the Buddha said that he couldn't see a discernable beginning of the wandering in Samsara</em></a>.</p>
<p>This process of death and rebirth can only be stopped when a being becomes enlightened. Why is that? Because enlightenment is what destroys and cuts off the root defilements that bind us to Samsara.</p>
