(In Hinduism and Buddhism) the sum of a person's actions in this and previous states of existence, viewed as deciding their fate in future existences.
There is a certain beauty, an elegance ev... - Cure Parkinson's
There is a certain beauty, an elegance even, about karma. My own definition; "don't screw with the universe."
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Anything happen to spark this post?
I thought it was a good rationale to encourage people wear mask-- because it illustrates what goes around, comes around.
Marc,
You sure know how to say something without saying it! Mask it definitely is.
On the karma note, I must be on the negative return side of karma. That is life and all I can do at this point is try and do what I think is right and good for others.
Art
Hi Art,
Although I don’t know you personally, I’m aware of your great degree of involvement and your exceptional, wonderful contributions to this sight.
I am no expert on karma. I do believe in it’s existence...in all of us.
I believe generosity is closely tied to karma. I believe it is better to give than to receive. I believe it is better to love than to be loved. I didn’t always feel that way, and now, in my senior years, I can look back and see where these changes were rooted. I also was not very aware of a transformation in motion.
I also believe perspective is a great component of karma. Can we control perspective? Do we need to?
The most important lesson I have learned is that it is essential for me to be honest with myself and to be as humble as possible. I make plenty of mistakes but that doesn’t change my belief in honesty and humility because
they guide me toward perspective. I consider this all to be connected, a sort of sensory connectivity. Something we get a feel for, a gut reaction, not intellectual.
You on the negative return side of karma?! There are a number of visitors to this sight that you have helped without you knowing you have helped them.
It’s too easy to preach patience. I’m sure the followers of this site wish you all the good karma possible. The majority of clouds have silver linings.
In light of all the negative things happening on our world, I appreciate you for being such a wonderful positive.
Our entire planet is under attack by a giant monster with the perfect disguise ... invisibility. And coupling this with our battle with Parkinson’s, a disease with no cure, we all have this tremendous thing called hope! And there is always hope! HU is a prime example. A fountain brimming with hope.
I can’t thank you enough for all the help and hope you provide, and the reason for the “essay “ is that it hurt to hear you say that you “must be on the negative return side of karma. Keep the Faith. One of my favorite sayings. Your generosity with your time and information is rapidly filling up your karma bank. Your silver lining is waiting just around the corner. If that isn’t enough, we the members of HU all love you!
Our most sincere thanks,
Mogul1
Hi Mogul1,
I'm happy to see you posting regularly again! I guess I could have been clearer in what I was trying to say, but your reply has really made me think and try and clarify who I am in my own mind.
When I was much younger, I feel I was selfish and not very caring of others, I don't know that for certain and nobody ever told me that, but I suspect it was true. As I've gotten older, I'm trying to be a better person and I realize that many of the things that I didn't like in others when I was growing up and right into adulthood, are really things I didn't like about myself. I think I always knew it in some way, but have only been able to actually admit that to myself well after I moved into adulthood. Like everyone else, I have had some difficulties in life and I suspect some of that was karma showing me the truth about myself, what I couldn't see or didn't want to see about who I really was or how I may have hurt others when I wasn't even trying to.
I hope I am in a new phase of life and a lot of my past stupidity is now behind me. Now I feel I am making more of an effort to try to be a better person than I was in the past. I know I slip back sometimes and I am trying to do better, but I am human after all and I still make mistakes, but I am trying to be a better person and be more considerate of others. If I fail in this new phase of life, I don't want it to be because I didn't try hard enough and then karma has to come back around again and show me the errors of my ways. I still find myself trying to justify things I do or am contemplating doing, that I feel may be wrong. I'm trying to get to a place where I can feel comfortable with my choices in life and have less regrets about my actions and interactions with others. Soul searching is difficult because if I am being honest with myself, I have to face and admit that I have flaws that still need to be worked on.
Art
Art,
OK, I know I started this thread about karma, but attributing your difficulties in life to karma means this discussion has spun out of control. It would be like attributing PD to karma, so to be clear --- there is no such thing. (That is not to say bad behavior does not bring about bad consequences and good behavior doesn't bring about good consequences. It is to say there's no extraterrestrial forces in the universe that repay us what we deserve.)
Newsflash; nearly all of us men were thoughtless, inconsiderate, self-absorbed, and selfish when we were young and some of us carried this immaturity right on into middle-age. That's what testosterone will due to a person. PD has a way of grabbing one by the shoulders and shaking the sh*t out of you until you come to your senses..
If I only knew then (about myself) what I know now.
Marc, please, I never said I was self absorbed!😁😁😁
On the serious side, though, I tend to believe you reap what you sow.
Art
I don't believe your health issues are the result of what you sowed. You strike me as someone who's highly self-aware and I doubt you sowed anything that warrants more than getting dirt on your shoes.
Your good soul, Art. No question about that. In the course of doing your research, try to figure out who or what you were in one of your previous existences.
I haven't found that study yet, Marc!😞😞😞
Art
Art
A look to the future ...
Any past life is over now and you are here again, this means that you are your soul and whatever happens to you then you will recover.
The future is a very long time, you decide if it will be beautiful and worth living or full of remorse over past “bad” acts often judged very harshly, too harshly, by ourselves.
Vast, fascinating subject you're opening... Do you believe in re-incarnation ?... Are you aware of Michael Newton's deep hypnoses that reveal "lives between lives" in his book "Destiny of Souls" ?
Marc P.
I posted that in the hopes of reducing the spread of Covid.
My sentiments exactly...
Michael Newton's books are very informative!
That said, I would add that karma does not wait on death - it generates plenty of results in the same lifetime.
Which makes it all the more powerful & richer.
Could be the end of the conspiracy theory conspiracy theory.
buddhanet.net/e-learning/ka...
karma is only one of the five processes and the others have much influence. Example Parkinson's is not a penalty to pay for any wrong doing in this or any previous life.
Thanks for the link 🌺
Thanks Marc, i great believer in karma, i try to live my life as i want to be treated by others and those that are toxic to me i leave aside- i don't retaliate or bite bk.
Life is a circle and we go bk to our beginnings.
University of Washington is now predicting 390,000 dead in the US by the END OF THE YEAR.
Also, by the year's end, 2900 people will be dying per day in the US.
If everyone more a mask, 86,000 people would be saved.
You gotta LUV Karma.
Not wearing a mask is the pinnacle of self absorption.
What is Karma?
I enjoy Sadhguru because he is sometimes funny. He has dozens and dozens of videos on YouTube and, admittedly, this is an interesting one. His affectation is better than most. He says the karma is just the sum total of everything you have ever done, thought and remembered, however, you can be sure that anybody who can bloviate about any subject given to him, eventually says some pretty silly things -- as he has.
Once before I die, I would like to hear 1 of these health or spiritual gurus or mystics utter the words, “I don’t know.”
If you follow the theory of the true believers in karma, it holds that in previous lives we may not have even been human AND our previous lives may have taken place long before the preceding generation.
That has to be one hell of a database management challenge required to keep track of every misdeed of every living creature, throughout time, and then to keep track of all the reincarnations and connect 1 of those misdeeds to 1 of several billion living humans.
That would mean, for example, Art may have been an alligator living one hundred thousand years ago and might have killed a migrating wildebeest even though he wasn’t hungry and now karma has traced Art back through a thousand incarnations leading up to his preceding life as a bottlenose dolphin (because they are the smartest nonhuman animal) giving him a head start in the intelligence department explaining why he is so smart now. And now that karma has finally tracked him down for that incident hundred thousand years ago is going to visit psoriasis on him so that the cosmos remains in balance.
I don't think so.
(Yes, I've had too much time on my hands today.)
😀
This is hilarious!
Marc, you should be writing science fiction thrillers, stop wasting your talent writing here! Lol
Once again, karma rears its ugly head.
Trump's Chief of Staff Mark Meadows test positive for Covid.
What a shock!
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