Guest guest Posted October 14, 2004 Report Share Posted October 14, 2004 karma ------ karma is a sanskrit word meaning action. In a general sense karma means all good and bad actions. It covers all kinds of intentional actions whether mental, verbal or physical thoughts, words and deeds. karma is not a doctrine of predetermination, the past influence the present but does not dominate it, for karma is created in the past as well as the present. The past and present influence the future. To explain karma ---------------- Throw a stone in a pond and watch the effect. There is a splash and a number of little rings appearing around the place where the stone strikes. The rings grow wider and wider, when the tiny waves reaches the edge of the pond, the water moves back till it pushes the stone that has disturb it. likewise when you grow a mango seed, a mango tree will come up and bear fruit, if we sow a chili seed and a chilli plant will grow and produce chillies. The two examples teaches us 3 things ---- (1)karma is fair, it does not know us or hate/love us. It is simply the law of cause and effect. example when fire burns us, does the fire feel sorry? NO, it is the nature of fire to burn and give out heat. All we have to learn is to use fire the right way (light, cooking) (2)karma is created by oneself, man himself is responsible for his happiness and misery. He creates his own heaven and hell. He is the master of his own destiny, child of his past and parent of his future. (3)karma affects not only oneself by others because of inter- dependence in our relationship. Lessons taught by karma ------------------------ (1)patience The law will be our helper if we live by it and we will understand by suffering we know we are paying a debt and we learn if we wise not to create more suffering in future. In rejoicing we are thankful and if we are wise to create more good karma. (2)confidence We have nothing to fear in the wide universe except our own misdeeds. (3)self-reliance Since as we in the past have cause ourselves to be what we are now, so by what WE DO now will our future be determined. (4)restraint If we realise that evil we do will return back to strike us, we will be careful in our thoughts and action. (5)power The more we make the doctrine of karma a part of our lives, the more power we gain to direct our own future and help our fellow beings. To remove negative karma ------------------------- The seeds of negative actions stay hidden in our consciousness, when the right conditions come together, the seed will ripen into the effect. Just as a seed will grow into a plant given the right conditions such as sunlight, soil and water. At our level we can seek to purify karma by (like keeping the seed from ripening from recieving water, sunlight and fertilizer so that even if the seed ripens its effects will be weak and short-lived like a sick plant). (1)Regret (2)Determination not to repeat such action (3)Any positive action such as meditation, cultivation of postive characteristics such as loving kindness, compassion. (4)actual remedial or corrective action It should be done repeatly as we have done so many negative actions, so naturally we cannot expect to counteract them all at once. At a higher level, the ultimate way of uprooting the karmaic imprints or seeds is by meditating on the emptiness of inherent existence. This is the way to purify the afflictive emotions and the karmic imprints completely. To explain emptiness is to look at a river, a river is not really a river but many streams of water and each stream is made out of many droplets of water. Also the stream of water or droplets of water can change direction anytime and flow completely in a new direction. So is the river a river? It is a river and yet is not a river, because it is just changing droplets of water. It looks as a river but we know it is made out of many droplets of water. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted October 18, 2004 Report Share Posted October 18, 2004 I think that was beautiful!!! Recently I was hurt about something. But I couldn't bring myself to say anything bad. O.K. some negative thoughts did occur but I didn't allow them to continue. I think it is very liberating to overcome hurt. And you feel so much stronger at the end of it all. I don't think we should let the flow of life be constrained / slowed down by hurt. Because then we end up in muddy pools. Life should sparkle and continue to flow untrammelled. That can happen when we try to have a calm mind to handle situations. Sometimes I feel I land up with just the right things on the net. There must be a bigger game plan to all this, perhaps. Thanks once again, whoever you are for writing this. Vinita , "searchingreiki" <iamshawntan@h...> wrote: > > karma > ------ > karma is a sanskrit word meaning action. In a general sense karma > means > all good and bad actions. It covers all kinds of intentional actions > whether mental, verbal or physical thoughts, words and deeds. > > karma is not a doctrine of predetermination, the past influence the > present but > does not dominate it, for karma is created in the past as well as the > present. The past and present influence the future. > > To explain karma > ---------------- > Throw a stone in a pond and watch the effect. There > is a splash and a number of little rings appearing around the place > where the stone strikes. The rings grow wider and wider, when the > tiny waves reaches the edge of the pond, the water moves back till > it > pushes the stone that has disturb it. > > likewise when you grow a mango seed, a mango tree will come up and > bear > fruit, if we sow a chili seed and a chilli plant will grow and > produce > chillies. > > The two examples teaches us 3 things > ---- > (1)karma is fair, it does not know us or hate/love us. It is simply > the > law of cause and effect. example when fire burns us, does the fire > feel > sorry? NO, it is the nature of fire to burn and give out heat. All we > have to learn is to use fire the right way (light, cooking) > (2)karma is created by oneself, man himself is responsible for his > happiness and misery. He creates his own heaven and hell. He is the > master of his own destiny, child of his past and parent of his > future. > (3)karma affects not only oneself by others because of inter- > dependence > in our relationship. > > > Lessons taught by karma > ------------------------ > (1)patience > The law will be our helper if we live by it and we will understand by > suffering we know we are paying a debt and we learn if we wise not > to > create more suffering in future. In rejoicing we are thankful and if > we are wise to create more good karma. > > (2)confidence > We have nothing to fear in the wide universe except our own misdeeds. > > (3)self-reliance > Since as we in the past have cause ourselves to be what we are now, > so > by what WE DO now will our future be determined. > > (4)restraint > If we realise that evil we do will return back to strike us, we will > be careful in our thoughts and action. > > (5)power > The more we make the doctrine of karma a part of our lives, the more > power we gain to direct our own future and help our fellow beings. > > To remove negative karma > ------------------------- > The seeds of negative actions stay hidden in our consciousness, when > the right conditions come together, the seed will ripen into the > effect. > Just as a seed will grow into a plant given the right conditions > such as > sunlight, soil and water. > > At our level we can seek to purify karma by (like keeping the seed > from ripening > from recieving water, sunlight and fertilizer so that even if the > seed ripens its > effects will be weak and short-lived like a sick plant). > > (1)Regret > (2)Determination not to repeat such action > (3)Any positive action such as meditation, cultivation of postive > characteristics > such as loving kindness, compassion. > (4)actual remedial or corrective action > > It should be done repeatly as we have done so many negative actions, > so naturally we > cannot expect to counteract them all at once. > > At a higher level, the ultimate way of uprooting the karmaic > imprints or seeds > is by meditating on the emptiness of inherent existence. This is the > way to purify > the afflictive emotions and the karmic imprints completely. > > To explain emptiness is to look at a river, a river is not really a > river but many > streams of water and each stream is made out of many droplets of > water. Also the stream > of water or droplets of water can change direction anytime and flow > completely in a new > direction. So is the river a river? It is a river and yet is not a > river, because it > is just changing droplets of water. It looks as a river but we know > it is made out of > many droplets of water. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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