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PRABUDDH JEEVAN
FEBRUARY 2014
KARMA TALKS
This month as I was going through all the different philosophers in my mind's eye, I decided to veer off on a tangent- from specific people to the thin thread that governs people- Karma.
effecting a change in thought patterns. Let us not get bogged down with good and bad
karma.
So what is Karma? Lets look at some contemporary thinkers and what do they have to say about 'Karma.
Good karma is where our beliefs are in tandem with our highest potentials, thereby attracting positive
effects' due to the law of attraction! There is no one paying us back or a higher authority
rewarding us!! Similarly Negative karma is not punishment, but those limiting beliefs that you are yet to align with
their higher potential.
Even chance meetings are the result of karma... Things in life are fated by our previous lives. That even in the smallest events there's no such thing as coincidence."
-- Haruki Murakami( Japanese iconic writer)
There is no judgment implied in cause and effect. It is pure physics and the laws of energy!
XXX Many of us consider karma a burden... something that we need to finish or 'get over' in order to
progress'!
Dangerous consequences will follow when politicians and rulers forget moral principles. Whether we believe in God or karma, ethics is the foundation of every religion."
-- Dalai Lama XIV I'm not a believer in predetermined fates, being rewarded for one's efforts. I'm not a believer in karma. The reason why I try to be a good person is because I think it's the right thing to do. If I commit fewer bad acts there will be fewer bad acts, maybe other people will join in committing fewer bad acts, and in time there will be fewer and fewer of them."
-- Daniel Handler
But actually karma is the progress! It may help if we replace the word karma, and all its pre-conceived notions, with the words learning,
knowing, and growing. How can you 'finish' learning knowing growing! It is
our reason to Be!
So what is this KARMA? my friend Divyaakummar always says' karma is about learning and so:
So let us all use the word ' Karma' in its highest possible potential-and make all our karma's into wonderful lessons for growth and embrace it wholeheartedly - the good, the bad, the ugly!
Karma is not about justice, it is about learning; Karma is not handed out, it is your choice;
Karma is not with another, but with self! Karma is not about right balancing wrong but about
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QUOTES ON KARMA "Even if things don't unfold the way you expected, don't "Karma comes after everyone eventually. You can't be disheartened or give up. One who continues to get away with screwing people over your whole life, advance will win in the end."
I don't care who you are. What goes around comes
-Daisaku Ikeda around. That's how it works. Sooner or later the "How people treat you is their karma; how you react universe will serve you the revenge that you is yours."
deserve." - Wayne W. Dyer
-- Jessica Brody
