Karma Question
March 6th 2007 01:25
Maybe its trendy by necessity, as in, I need to believe in it right now so I will tell you that its trendy to do so, but Karma has a lot going for it.
Do you believe we get back what we give? That we can throw things out into the world and we are bound to receive them back in kind, in degree? Can you live with the idea, can you stand the idea, that maybe what you get back for all you've done/given won't happen until another lifetime? Would you be a better person, do more, give more, if you knew for sure it was coming back in *this* lifetime?
You can't prove or disprove it (how convenient) but I reckon its one of the most ingenious social controls every created by a religion. It promises you that if you do good, good will come back to you, and if you do bad, bad will come round to bite you in the bum. And, though you can't prove it beyond a shadow of a doubt, it must have a pretty accurate sucess rate because people seem to buy it, abide by it.
Today might be a bad day for me, feeling vulnerable, like i've put too much out there--that it isn't coming back. Maybe not today its not. But i'd rather believe that it will, eventually (and please god, in this life!) and i'd rather keep doing good. Revenge, anger, vengence--all these things are destructive both to those you feel them and those upon whom those feelings are directed. I'd always rather be productive then destructive...but sometimes when it feels like the world has ganged up on you its really easy to believe that what you're doing is justice. The world is mean to you, be mean back.
Karma might help you break that cycle, offering you compensation if you struggle on to do kindness. Cycle breaking is hard, but of all the methods out there, if you can bring yourself to believe it might be true, karma might keep you on the path of doing good when you desperately want to do bad.
I'll keep believe it til it proves me wrong...
Do you believe we get back what we give? That we can throw things out into the world and we are bound to receive them back in kind, in degree? Can you live with the idea, can you stand the idea, that maybe what you get back for all you've done/given won't happen until another lifetime? Would you be a better person, do more, give more, if you knew for sure it was coming back in *this* lifetime?
You can't prove or disprove it (how convenient) but I reckon its one of the most ingenious social controls every created by a religion. It promises you that if you do good, good will come back to you, and if you do bad, bad will come round to bite you in the bum. And, though you can't prove it beyond a shadow of a doubt, it must have a pretty accurate sucess rate because people seem to buy it, abide by it.
Today might be a bad day for me, feeling vulnerable, like i've put too much out there--that it isn't coming back. Maybe not today its not. But i'd rather believe that it will, eventually (and please god, in this life!) and i'd rather keep doing good. Revenge, anger, vengence--all these things are destructive both to those you feel them and those upon whom those feelings are directed. I'd always rather be productive then destructive...but sometimes when it feels like the world has ganged up on you its really easy to believe that what you're doing is justice. The world is mean to you, be mean back.
Karma might help you break that cycle, offering you compensation if you struggle on to do kindness. Cycle breaking is hard, but of all the methods out there, if you can bring yourself to believe it might be true, karma might keep you on the path of doing good when you desperately want to do bad.
I'll keep believe it til it proves me wrong...
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