KARMA

Have you ever said, or thought to yourself “Lets get out of here. This place (or this person) has bad karma.” We're referring to those feelings we get somewhere in our body about the good or bad energy emanations felt to be generated by someone or something.

Karma also means bringing upon oneself predictable, inevitable results, desirable or not, either in this incarnation or in another. And by "another incarnation", I'm not talking about some future lifetime – I've been to the threshold a few times and I really don't know about that: I'm talking about the many reinventions we experiment with and go through in this lifetime. If you put your hand on a hot stovetop, it burns us in this lifetime – not in some future fantasy.

According to Buddhism, human inequality is due not only to heredity, environment, "nature and nurture", but also to Karma. In other words, it is the result of our own past actions and our own present doings. In Karmic culture, we ourselves are responsible for our own happiness and misery. We create our own Heaven. We create our own Hell. We are the architects of our own fate.

 

Karma has been defined as “A continuous, present-time acting-out of an accumulated, uncompleted past”, a past that lies hidden under a blanket of pretending, deceiving, and a wall of smoke, mirrors and distracting – Don't look at me, will you just look at that!!??

I prefer to use the term “consequences” because it comes with somewhat less religious provenance and aroma of moral “punishment” than the word “karma”. But this is semantics. What I get is the we are both cause and consequence, living person-ally in a continuous ebb and flow of of cosmic causes and consequences. None of us lives in a vacuum. We are part of the bio-organism that we live in. Science presently confirms that not one part of a whole can change without affecting the whole. This means there is a flow-on from everything we say, do , think and feel (or not, as the case may be). And, whether we believe it or not, are aware of it or not, the effect is immediate. We live in a milieu of action and reaction, action and interaction. And this Law cannot be manipulated without causing further consequences.

Bottom line? Ignore or dismiss the flowback effect from your choices and decisions at your peril. If you spit in the wind, it lands in your face. 

Be aware.

[I Chose You – Paulini (A) – 3:35]