There is a question about karma when applied to groups. If Europe
suddenly decided to roundup all Americans would it be your karma or
because you're an American? Or would it be because you're in the wrong
place at the wrong time? The question arises with astrologers when an
airline crashes killing everyone on board. It is quite doubtful that
the horoscopes of every passenger would show such a death.
Then we get into the subtle shades of karma. There is karma that is
quickly returned and some that is returned over decades or even
lifetimes. There are of course Sanskrit names for these kinds of
karma. Except for the quick blowback, it's hard to prove or disprove.
On 02/12/2015 09:52 PM, TurquoiseBee [email protected]
[FairfieldLife] wrote:
*/There are, however, far more interesting ways to interpret the
workings of karma. For example, my favorite -- partly because it does
not require any kind of arbiter or "enforcer" to run it, just an
automatic mechanism -- is that the effects of karma are not physical
but mental.
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/*
*/That is, karma is not the simplistic stuff that many people believe
in (kill someone and you'll be killed), but actually far more simple
(and thus effective) than that. Kill someone and *your state of
attention drops to a lower and duller level*. Or, alternatively, do
something nice for someone else and your state of attention rises to a
higher and more intelligent/creative level.
/*
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/*
*/That's the only mechanism that would have to be in place for karma
to work.
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/*
*/Those whose past actions have resulted in a lower, duller mindstate
would find themselves repeating the same types of actions that created
that lower, duller mindstate. Those whose past actions have resulted
in a higher, clearer mindstate would be drawn more to actions that
would perpetuate and encourage their higher, clearer mindstate. And at
any point one can *change* one's proclivities by simply changing one's
actions, so there is no such thing as permanent karma or karma one
cannot escape. /*
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*From:* "[email protected] [FairfieldLife]"
<[email protected]>
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This is pretty much a standard way karma is interpreted.
---In [email protected], <s3raphita@...> wrote :
She's barking mad of course. But isn't what she is saying more or less
what belief in karma actually entails?
---In [email protected], <noozguru@...> wrote :
*Outrage as Shirley MacLaine asks: Were Holocaust victims paying for
sins in past lives?**
*
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2951513/Outcry-Shirley-MacLaine-asks-Holocaust-victims-paying-sins-past-lives-Comments-attacked-offensive-wrong-Jewish-campaigners.html
