best not to let yourself
believe in "karma", were it true David Rockefeller would be in a homeless shelter and GWB would be in a gulag where
the inmates are being tortured, capische?
best not to let yourself
believe in "karma", were it true David Rockefeller would be in a homeless shelter and GWB would be in a gulag where
the inmates are being tortured, capische?
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Ah, but I do believe in Karma.
However, almost inseparable from a true belief in the laws of Karma, is the philosophy of reincarnation, along with
the belief in an immortal soul of some sort. Karma, good bad or otherwise, doesn't always come in this turn of the
wheel, but it does come.
GWB will get his
I
suddenly like you!!!
There is a cure for electile dysfuntion!!!!
is Asian and Buddhist.
She decidedly believes in Karma which I think is unhealthy. Once she became a little bit "Americanized" her saying
was: "what comes around goes around", a saying she learned from her workmates in a low-paying job. For the
downtrodden (not that I think you are, I think the opposite of you), that philosophy helps them to cope but doesn't
really get them anywhere better. To her and other believers of that, they feel as if their station in life has
nothing to do with ability but rather luck, or lack of it and that the tide will eventually turn but you and I know
it really never does unless we do something to better ourselves.
Another saying (philosophy) I hear once in
a while is "be nice to people on your way up as you might meet them again on your way down".
There is a cure for electile dysfuntion!!!!
The truth is, in my opinion, that we are a combination of simple odds, our intelligence and
determination. Most of us make our own luck, one way or another. Maybe we do have an immortal soul and maybe we
don't. It has nothing to do with what we choose to become in our lives.
I am still an idealist about most
things, including marriage. Never have cheated and have no tolerance for one who would cheat on me. If you and your
other half have other arrangements, that's great. You are harming nobody and you are happy.
To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.
Thomas Jefferson
Karma means nothing more than "action", essentially.She decidedly believes
in Karma which I think is unhealthy. Once she became a little bit "Americanized" her saying was: "what comes around
goes around", a saying she learned from her workmates in a low-paying job. For the downtrodden (not that I think you
are, I think the opposite of you), that philosophy helps them to cope but doesn't really get them anywhere better.
To her and other believers of that, they feel as if their station in life has nothing to do with ability but rather
luck, or lack of it and that the tide will eventually turn but you and I know it really never does unless we do
something to better ourselves.
You don't have to
believe in reincarnation to believe in karma; though you can, and the ideas go together well. You have to modify the
term with something like "past life" karma to specify that context.
Nor is it "what goes around comes around".
That too is a popular misconception.
In a bare bones sense, karma has to do with the biggest picture around ones
actions -- all the conditions, preconditions, consequences, internal states, etc. Actions have a follow through to
them that is bigger than most understand. When I act I change myself and the world forever. I even change my own
future actions. All these changes can be considered part of the act itself, and should be, if you accept the
Buddhist principle. That big picture is closer to the idea of karma than any western cliches you typically
hear.
We now return to our regularly scheduled program.
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