The law of karma, or something similar is common to the beliefs of many faith. With or without moral overtones, it seems reasonable (and just) that there are consequences of all our actions.
QUESTION ONE
Do you believe that we in this life (or perhaps our children or we in a future life) will see the consequences of our actions?
QUESTION TWO
Do you believe that it is possible to "break free" from the consequences of our actions?
Karma
Re: Karma
Paul Brunton in his book "Essays on the Quest" discusses the subject extensively in the essay, "Karma:The Law of Consequences". To answer the questions, I will give appropriate quotes from his essay.
To offset the karmic effects of a bad deed, do the contrary one; and of bad thought or speech we should deliberately cultivate the opposite kind. If something has been taken from a man, something should be given voluntarily which is of equal or greater value to him.
If it is true that we cannot wish our bad karma away, it is equally true that we can balance it with good karma and thus offset its result. Buddha, who was one of the greatest exponents of the karma doctrine, pointed out that right thinking and good deeds could change kamic curses into blessings."
"The literal meaning of karma is 'doing' and the applied meaning is simply that a man's karma is his own doing. He has made himself what he is now by his own actions - the term karma in its original reference includes mental actions. Karma is simply a power of the Universal Mind to effect adjustment, to restore equilibrium and to bring about compensatory balance. In the sphere of human conduct the result is that somehow and somewhen, whatever a man does is ultimately reflected back to him. No deed is exhausted in the doing of it: eventually it will bear fruit which will return inexorably to the doer. Karma is a self-moving force. Nobody, human or superhuman, has to operate it."sofiya wrote:The law of karma, or something similar is common to the beliefs of many faith. With or without moral overtones, it seems reasonable (and just) that there are consequences of all our actions.
QUESTION ONE
Do you believe that we in this life (or perhaps our children or we in a future life) will see the consequences of our actions?
"Is karma so iron-bound that there is no hope for man to escape its strong mechanism? The answer is that we may assuredly cherish such a hope, if not for such escape or for the abolition of karmic suffering, at least for rendering it less painful and more bearable - provided we fulfil the requisite preconditions of repentance, reparation and resignation. Karmic pressures do not oblige us to act in a particular way, although they do push us to do so. If we choose, we can set up inner resistance to these pressures and thus modify or even alter their effects.sofiya wrote: QUESTION TWO
Do you believe that it is possible to "break free" from the consequences of our actions?
To offset the karmic effects of a bad deed, do the contrary one; and of bad thought or speech we should deliberately cultivate the opposite kind. If something has been taken from a man, something should be given voluntarily which is of equal or greater value to him.
If it is true that we cannot wish our bad karma away, it is equally true that we can balance it with good karma and thus offset its result. Buddha, who was one of the greatest exponents of the karma doctrine, pointed out that right thinking and good deeds could change kamic curses into blessings."
"We never made for any mortal before thee immortality… Every soul shall taste of death! We will test them with evil and good, as a trial; & unto us shall they return!"
- Koran (Prophets)
"Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap."
- Bible: Galatians (6:7)
"All souls are subject to revolution… but men do not know the ways of the Holy One… They are ignorant of the way they have been judged in all time, before they came into this world and when they have quitted it."
- Zohar (Kabbalah)
"Since karma is meeting self, we acquire karma as we meet self in our many attitudes and emotions; when we serve in loving kindness and patience or hold resentful malicious thoughts… What we do to our fellow man we do to our Maker… our karma or problem is within self."
- Edgar Cayce
- Koran (Prophets)
"Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap."
- Bible: Galatians (6:7)
"All souls are subject to revolution… but men do not know the ways of the Holy One… They are ignorant of the way they have been judged in all time, before they came into this world and when they have quitted it."
- Zohar (Kabbalah)
"Since karma is meeting self, we acquire karma as we meet self in our many attitudes and emotions; when we serve in loving kindness and patience or hold resentful malicious thoughts… What we do to our fellow man we do to our Maker… our karma or problem is within self."
- Edgar Cayce
or from the ginans;sofiya wrote:"We never made for any mortal before thee immortality… Every soul shall taste of death! We will test them with evil and good, as a trial; & unto us shall they return!"
- Koran (Prophets)
"Whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap."
- Bible: Galatians (6:7)
"All souls are subject to revolution… but men do not know the ways of the Holy One… They are ignorant of the way they have been judged in all time, before they came into this world and when they have quitted it."
- Zohar (Kabbalah)
"Since karma is meeting self, we acquire karma as we meet self in our many attitudes and emotions; when we serve in loving kindness and patience or hold resentful malicious thoughts… What we do to our fellow man we do to our Maker… our karma or problem is within self."
- Edgar Cayce
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