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Wednesday, July 16, 2008
Last night I was reading Shan's post on Karma. Now that really got me thinking the whole night, and by whole night I mean to the extent that I didn't get any sleep until 7.30am LOL. What is my stance on Karma you ask? I looked into this on Google and came up with a conclusion. I hope this can offer some insight.
I understand Karma a little differently to what most might think it means. Yes, to me karma does exist but it's not what is traditionally thought of when you think of it. It is not retribution for doing bad things in another life. It is, however, a balancing of experiences.
Think of Karma like a wheel. It goes around. Or a chain made up of links.
For example:
You are driving along, but your not going fast enough for the person behind you. He's tailgating you and gesturing rudely. Then he swerves around you quickly, screaming abuse out his open window at you.
That person has just handed you some bad Karma. What you do with it is the key to understanding Karma. Our natural instinct is to get really angry, upset and/or hurt by the situation - and in turn we very well may end up taking that frustration out on someone else, thereby handing the bad Karma along to the next person.
We can become a 'link' in the chain of Karma, and it just keeps getting passed around.
Equally, good Karma goes around. We walk down the street and someone steps out of our way, smiles and says 'hello'. Our spirits are lifted and we smile back. That would be good Karma being handed to us. The progression then is that we pass on the good Karma to someone else, and so on.
Karma is more like unseen energy and we perpetrate it's existence by handing it around. I suppose you could say that the more people out there that are perpetrating good Karma the better the world will be for everyone.
Good and bad Karma are not currency in some spiritual bank-account. They merely represent energy and how it travels by way of human contact.
You ask why is it that bad things happen to good people - I would have to say it is mostly down to chance. If you are in the wrong place at the wrong time bad things could happen. It's a part of life and maybe a way of evening things out. Karma is not like an electronic tag you wear around - life is just a deck of wild cards. Sometimes it turns out for your fortune and sometimes it turns out bad fortune.
Labels: karma, life, personal, random, thoughts
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