Karma the Mechanism

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

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KARMA - THE MECHANISM
out distanced analysis, without paying attention where it leads us in a highly sublime way?
We are playing a dangerous game! We have no real resistance, no valid alternative concept. And even if we think we only play with the idea, that we wouldn't be serious about it, this concept sneaks into our mind, into our sub-conscience and influences us.
What is it that attracts us to karma? What makes us playfully embrace a concept we officially ridicule and doggedly refuse to examine seriously? - Could it be our yearning for meaning? Could it be our craving that life should amount to something, that all our efforts, all our suffering, all our achievements should be more than just an irrelevant quiver of chemical elements as modern science wants us to believe? Is it not our discomfort with a faceless evolution theory that depicts life as mere accidental combinations of matter that will inevitably dissolve without much of a trace?
For thousands of years religion provided pre-fabricated, wellcushioned descriptions what life was all about. It defined what was 'good' and 'bad', it created criteria against which to measure the world we were confronted with, it offered the goals towards which life was supposed to move. The image of a benevolent and stern though often unfathomable God opened an umbrella of security many found shelter beneath.
Then the advent of science dismantled much of this comfortable cushion of faith on which to rest our deeper questions. 'Meaning' couldn't be proven physically or chemically and was degraded to an individual irrelevancy, to a petty psychological weakness of our biological frame.
Yet science never really replaced meaning as religion had defined it. It only labeled the question as unnecessary, it never really answered it. After proclaiming the universe as fundamentally indifferent to humans - and to anything else for that matter, - science left it to the individual to find his or her own meaning without providing any orientation where to search for.