well back on topic, i believe you should do good things. not because of how it might affect you, but how it will affect others and if you get karma points for it, that's just a bonus
if the universe was on some kind of track..Musically, one of the songs would be named green onions...Check it out.....the universe could be a smalll black bag with holes of light shining throw and iam just a organisim sitting on the inside of some grapes inner membrane, just floating around waiting to be eating...A new idea lmao
From what i what understand there are different kinds of karma. There is simple cause and effect, you push something it falls down. Then advanced cause and effect, you rip some people off, next week a dog runs by and steals your wallet and chews all your money up. Theres stored karma, which is karma from your past lifes that you need to make up. Maybe if you were a bad man, you'd have to do a bunch of good deeds to make up for your karma. There is specific karma which you intended yourself to go through to better your being. Like going through some tragedy, like somebody dying to really understand love. Ive heard karma can be used like money sort of. If you have a bunch of good karma stored up you can use it from many great gifts. All the gurus say live beyond karma though. No karma is eternal life. In some circumstances karma is impossible not to gain though. I think is about not identifying with karma, if you do a good deed its not because you want something good in return, its just cause you want to do something good for someone. Not living in karma, not expecting something in return, that seems to be the key.
I think there is an ebb and flow to the universe. I don't know if I'd call it karma, really, as though events are disconnected somehow. It just keeps going. It's possible to push negative energy away and keep it away for good -- it doesn't necessarily come back to you. Etc. etc.
i think that it may in fact operate on such dualistic terms. maybe. but if it does, no mortal will ever be able to understand exacctly how it works because we, in our physical bodies, are bound in it. trying to become in complete control of it would be to further entangle oneself because we cannot become aware of the totality of the karmic causes that brought us into existence. what seems negative to us (someone dying of cancer), is not negative to the godhead but may be the neccesary effect of a certain chain of karmic causes and circumstance. this is something no human can understand through the day to day self or ego. but what i do kno is that karma, at its basic level, is no hocus pocus. its pretty basic. karma is the law of cause and effect. we see it every where every day and not neccesarily in the sense of "you do this, you get that". more so that every decision you make has a consequence. and those consequences lead to the same decisions, until we stop the cycle. often times, what we so badly "want" and our imagination of that outcome blinds us to the simple chain of cause and effect. so we learn to channel those desires and passions differently, and live in our dreams more directly without projecting it on to what can't be controlled in some imagined future which lets us down over and over. this MOMENT is the dream, and it can be whatever we want. break the cycle, space out, and then enter back into it with style and grace. drop out, turn on, tune in
really? always? its like a bank? so like, i can guarrantee nothing bad will ever happen to me or anyone i love if i just be really, really good santa claus? keep zooming out my friend, you are like this ()
I don't know what karma is but this is how the land of ego works: the more you worry about something, the more likely it is that whatever you're afraid of happening will happen conversely, the more at peace you are the more the universe will conspire in your favor
No other living thing on this planet is concerned by karma so why should you be? Karma only exists because you believe it does. Look at a tree, what karmic debt does it owe?
On a side note Mr. Writer, maybe you will find this interesting, maybe you won't... Historically traditional Jewish families never bless the food before they eat it like many other religions, they only give thanks. They ask why bless the food, when all is divine?
Correct giving thanks is a blessing but not in the way many people understand it. Nothing in this world needs the touch of God when he is already there. All is one. Namaste
*Gravity is one of the laws of the universe, and if you jumped off a building and killed yourself, we wouldn't say that gravity was punishing you, would we?
I think the significance of a blessing is internal. When we give pause to bless or give thanks for our food every time we eat something rather than just thoughtlessly scarfing it down, it acts as a balance to the raw physical process of eating that is necessary to sustain us. A lot can happen during that pause. Reflection on where the food came from, reflection on how life can only exist on other life and the process of life and death in general, thankfulness that this nourishment is being provided for us at this moment - it's all a very stabilizing habit. The divine is in everything, but taking a few moments to recognize, realize, and embody this fact, not just on a mental level but incorporating it into the fundamental structure of our being and subsequent actions, is a legitimate spiritual practice with a lot of weight and benefits.
