Karma the Mechanism

Author(s): Hermann Kuhn
Publisher: Crosswind Publishing Germany

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KARMA - THE MECHANISM
And since all this sounds utterly absurd to our proud, enlightened Western scientific minds, we generally use the term only with an ironic undertone when talking to others - and always with the diligent implication of mockery that would surely distance us from this pariah word.
Yet though we certainly do not 'believe' in karma, it nevertheless affects our consciousness. Sure, - nobody would ever admit to it - but isn't there a lingering and very private apprehension that some part of this concept might just be horribly true? Some vague idea that all our 'negative action would surely confront us again? And the uncomfortable suspicion that with much of our - egoistically motivated and self-centered - actions we might be skating on very thin ice for our future fate and comfort?
Our precious modern-day science does not do much to appease our mind in this regard. It even promotes the idea that nothing, - no energy - will ever be lost, only transformed, and that every cause would certainly have its effect. If this also applied to our individual intentions and actions, wouldn't we be heading for some highly embarrassing discomfort at a day of final reckoning - whenever or whatever that may be?
Fortunately none of these vague notions about karma hold up to thorough scrutiny.
Let's just for a moment playfully assume we really experienced a number of lives in our past. If these lives were in any way similar to our present one and with the many bad things we imagine we would have done in them, have we never wondered why we are not incarnated as a worm? - Or maybe a bacteria? - Or maybe, if we were really good - as mouse, certainly not bigger than a mouse?
If our present picture of karma were true, wouldn't we have accumulated such a huge mountain of bad deeds we'd never be able to dissolve? And how should we do this in the first place - as worms? - Eating it all up, physically? - And then these naughty worms can behave quite badly too, - what about their karma? - See, - this picture is