What Is Karma?
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» moondancer replied on Thu Aug 31, 2006 @ 11:35am |
 Coolness: 92270 | Originally Posted By BODKIN_VAN_HORN WHAT I AM SAYING HERE IS THE BASIS OF KARMA IS VOLITION OR WILL (NOT OTHER PHYSICAL LAWS). I UNDERSTAND YOUR NEED TO TRY AND DESCRIBE IT BY SAYING "IT'S LIKE TAKING A PILL" BUT NO IT'S NOT THAT AT ALL. NO. IT'S A DESIRE TO DO SOMETHING THAT BRINGS ABOUT POSITIVE OR NEGATIVE REACTIONS. AND IF YOU GO BACK I NEVER ASKED FOR A SIMPLE DEFINITION OR TRANSLATION OF THE WORD KARMA...I ASK WHAT IT MEANS. AND I DON'T THINK IT SHOULD BE THROWN AROUND (LIKE CALLING BOTTLED WATER KARMA "A DRINK THAT GIVE YOU NOTHING BUT GOOD BACK") AND USED WITHOUT IT'S TRUE UNDERSTANDING AND MEANING.
I think that by callign it volition or will you are not using it with it's true meaning and also if it is a desire to do something that brings about positive or negative reactions as you say than how can it NOT be like takign a pill? You have a desire to take a pill, you get really high and happy and then you feel just as low as you felt high because by takjign the pill you disrupted the balance of your body, you got greedy and decided that you wanted all good feelings+thoughts and none bad and nothing's gonna stop you from paying the price of distrupting that balance. If the basis of karma is volitoon or will that means it applies only to humans but the logic behind karma does apply to everything so even if it's intended only to be used in relation to humans the logic behind can't be will or volition, that is just a cause, the logic behind it is how the cause causes the effect. Will is what leads you to take an action but the action itself is what causes the reaction to happen and the same logic that applies to karma in a human life is the same logic that applies to everything else in the rest of the world INCLUDING gravity. Gravity can't exist without the natural law of karma. Update » moondancer wrote on Thu Aug 31, 2006 @ 11:47am Also liek to add that even in space the same rules apply, and that I do only define karma as simply cause and effect and nothing more. All these things I said are only cause and effect and nothing more. Cause and effect comes before anything, not after. I think you just don't understand or maybe you are looking for a more romantic opinion. All I know is this is going nowhere. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» bodkin_van_horn replied on Thu Aug 31, 2006 @ 11:48am |
 Coolness: 40120 | Hmmm...but my thing is that this is speculation, or at the very least metaphysical. Can you say for sure that Karma applies to the laws of gravity? Maybe, you can, but I'm not smart enough to go there. Can you say whether this applies to ants and trees?
I personally can't say so I am going with what I know for certain. If I have good desires and good will I should be able to bring peace to my life. |
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| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» moondancer replied on Thu Aug 31, 2006 @ 12:16pm |
| Coolness: 92270 | I can say for sure that gravity is caused by cause and effect but if you took a different definition for karma than that it's a whoel other story. The only thing that matters to our lives is what you said though so that's all that matters. |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» bodkin_van_horn replied on Thu Aug 31, 2006 @ 2:15pm |
| Coolness: 40120 | Thank you for the dicussion moondancer :) |
| I'm feeling the µ-ziq right now.. | |
| Good [+1]Toggle ReplyLink» moondancer replied on Thu Aug 31, 2006 @ 2:21pm |
| Coolness: 92270 | yeah I enjoyed it :) |
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