'Karma' Articles
Our energies are felt by others. When you’re in a “up” mood, you may notice you run into people feeling the same. But, nothing is either good or bad, but thinking makes it so. Karma is not good or bad, it is a set of potentials and there are two components to everything; what happens and how you react.
I can argue we are 100 percent karma, cause and effect from conception to death. But it would seem that some strange attractor pattern gives us the phenomenon we refer to as free will. Thus the power of intention, and the adoption of ritual which is a way to articulate intention.
“How people treat you is their karma; how you react is yours.” Wayne Dyer
Karmic Forces
Karma is sort of a tricky topic. Karma isn’t a force unto itself. It is more an aspect of other forces in life, like thought and emotion. Everything that transpires around us, and in us, has a karmic trait to it. A degree of impact, and it doesn’t have an effect entirely of its own merit. Nothing that happens, happens all by itself. People mostly think of karma as being an idealized justice system and this is mistaken. As a force by itself, it doesn’t even exist. It’s more of a quality. A facet of other forces. Any thought, emotion… Seek More
Connection and Pattern
Is karma just incidental? No. It is a principle of interconnectivity, not unlike gravity in space. Our spirits have a gravity, and it can attract good things like the light of the sun, or bad things like comets. Our spirit or energy isn’t a constant. It can’t really be. We are organic creatures and sort of changeable compared to other things, but we can observe a pattern to our lives and we can make decisions based on this pattern. There is an old saying, nothing is either good or bad but thinking makes it so. There have been plenty of… Seek More
First Karma
Where does the first karma come from to get the whole karmic ball rolling? The first karma comes from a state of existence that permeates all others. The ground of being. It serves as a sort of infrastructure for all of creation, though it isn’t quite as empty and featureless as some authorities would describe it. Is the first karma neutral? No, it is not neutral. It is omnipotent and capable of all things. It is empowered. Things manifest not from a neutralized or balanced state, but from an ever shifting dynamic state. As they say things must even change… Seek More
Things Happen
We have had terrible things happen in our lives. Things we did not choose. These terrible things aren’t necessarily your karma. You don’t exist in a void. For example, you do not choose another’s suicide. They do. If someone chooses to jump off a cliff, I can’t really stop them. It is the same with karma. Our situations are often two part. In part the consequence of another’s action, and in part how you are choosing to react to it. Suicide has weight, but it has a differing weight for you than for them. Differing impact. You’re a bystander to the… Seek More
Weight of our Choices
Karma isn’t about what you do to one person. It is about the entire weight of your choices. Do you generally foster well being? This doesn’t promise you will never suffer. But tell me, do any of you know anyone who genuinely fosters the well being of others who seems to never be able to prosper themselves in any way? They may not prosper materially, but they generally have other assets do they not? Even those who seem to have material prosperity can have very impoverished lives. And when that material prosperity fails, they tend to be the wino who… Seek More
Truth in Virtual Reality
We live in one world. This world as we make it isn’t false. The flesh and blood world is out of flesh and blood, but we didn’t make those. We didn’t make the world. We didn’t even make our real nature. But it’s funny that it takes virtual reality to show us what’s real, and to allow us to show more of what’s real in us. Isn’t it? I got involved in the “Second Life” virtual world to see people more deeply. I did in real life too, but was wondering if there would be more honesty in Second Life. And… Seek More
Cause and Effect
Life seems naturally contiguous. Thought and mood and action and reaction, there is no break in that cycle that I can see. Like we are all dancing to the same mad piper in the middle of a fairy ring made of the dust of individuality and self respect. This song is picked up without much choice because we live with each other, and it seems to be the only way we can communicate. So actions taken and words said are inevitably done and said against this backdrop. The song is really discordant. Old values clash with new realities. Personal integrity… Seek More
Our Footprint
There is a Chinese concept, they call it doing non doing. We are busy doing, and we aren’t even where we are because we are so busy doing and thinking about doing. In doing non doing you just do without making yourself do stuff. You are present to the doing with no agenda. You just be present for the steps of baking a cake. When you have to do something it’s karma. When you consciously choose to do something it’s grace. What is karma? Reaction. For every action there’s an equal and opposing reaction or consequence. Is karma a good… Seek More
