Karma. Until today, it was a word that held a very strong POSITIVE affirmation. Karma, in its simplest of definitions, is the law of causation. First introduced in Hinduism, it states that everything that you put out to the world you will get in return. Every action that has been done, ever feeling, every though, negative or positive, will inevitabbly come back to you. It wasn’t until an article I read today, shook the core of my belief.
The author of the article, spoke of Karma as a law for the sheep. A law in which we humans cant control and every action, no matter how injust, horrid, brutal, is deserving to its receiver. For example, if a girl where to be raped, Karma would say that she deserved it because of some evil she had committed, in this life or the previous. While my first reaction to reading this was anger, I find that I should not be angry, because in the end Karma is taking place.
I am believer in that that which you put out will come back to you, but should someone be punished for something they did in their previous life? How can such a thing ever be controlled here and now? And if you commited some otroshios act in another life, what can you do (now that you know better) to stop Karma from taking place? Or are we destined to allow Karma to weild is horrible hand for the adverse actions we have created in the past?
During my younger years, I did some things that, till today, I am not proud off and so, my belief in Karma, tells me that at one time, or one day I will pay for those things. I wonder sometimes if there is anything that I can do, now, to stop this inevitable bad Karma from coming my way? When will it happen? Buddhist believe that the Karma will return when a person least expects it in order to do what Karma’s intention has always been – to teach a lesson. To teach the lesson that in this life i must learn in order to not repeat it in the next.
I sit here now wondering and waiting. I ask the “why”, the “what”, the “when” and the “where”….but cleverly enough…Karma has no response. And while Fear is my first initial feeling…Acceptance has somehow taken over until Karma comes and finds me.
looks like march was a busy month huh? Well i def don’t go as deep into Karma as you did in this post, but I have always been a believer of just do good onto others.. I continue to receive blessings from perfect strangers in completely different cultures/countries. So all I worry about is how can i continue to do good to others… We are human and we are not perfect, and yes I know that there’s a bad element to karma but I just don’t worry or let fear inside. When it happens it’s just a reminder in my life that hey, LIFE’S NOT PERFECT! and I move onto doing good…