It's like Newton's Law, only supposedly more spiritual to usher us towards a more profound sense of existentialism.
Karma is, according to Buddhist philosophy, where "for every event that occurs, there will follow another event whose
existence was caused by the first, and this second event will be pleasant or unpleasant according to its cause". Skilful
events are those which are not accompanied by craving, resistance or delusions. Karma is supposed to teach us
responsibility of our actions. Which is a kind of tendency to exhibit freedom
and choice of how we carry out our existence which is based on our social and cultural upbringing.
Then again we can just describe things as simply "Shit happens!"
Again, who are we kidding here? I would like to think that I have been quite good all my life and I have always
had a visit from Santa, so no reason refuting my belief that I have been anything BUT good. But did I deserve
all that crap that has happened? I would say what I went through in the last few years would have given me
reason hurl myself off the nearest cliff. Only I am against taking my own life to end my own misery. Much better
to be alive and give other people a dose of their own karma. I'm not evil. I just return what I got from the person
in ten-fold.
I would like to think that if the other people were not there to make my life a misery, there would be no pain.
Where there is pain, there is supposedly joy. Joy is what I derive when I get to see that the other person suffers as much as
they have put me through. Let me tell you that if what wont kill you will make you stronger, it will also leave a
bloody pulpy mess in your living room floor. Is it normal to go through the day with a deep pang in your heart (if
indeed your heart served more a purpose than to pump blood to the rest of your body)?
Before you think that this is due to the incessant ramblings of one scorned in love, let me set you straight.
Love does not make the world go around. It is money, greed, and the Earth's gravitational force. If you don't
have money, even love cant hold you together. If you don't have the greed, you will not be bettering yourself
at other's expense in quest for happiness, and gravity, that is pretty self explanatory. Then I come back to karma ...
What goes around comes around. Then why isn't that enough to strike fear into the hearts of men, and prevent
people from doing bad? And why is it the bad people end up getting the good stuff, and the good people suffer?
Good people are doormats, that's why. Let me give you an example. A man/woman... okay, person goes out to kill
someone. They are put in a high security prison. They get fed (for free), they get accommodation (for free), and
they get a sentence which is ridiculous anyway because they only get to serve one third of it before they are let
out to offend again. Why cant murderers die a horrible death? Isn't that what they deserve? An eye for an eye? Or
are we too civilised to castrate a serial rapist? They didn't give their victims a chance, why should we have them
near our children?
And what of good people? I know of people who have done nothing but bend over backwards to be taken advantage of.
Generosity is a rare thing, and yet people will stoop to cheating these innocents of their life savings and possessions.
In every family there is always a black sheep - a vulture waiting to swoop at the slightest whiff of vulnerability/
gullibility.
Do these bad people get what they deserve? Is this karma working?
People are always trying to worry about their afterlife when they shit on everyone in this life. You may not be able
to change the past, but you can change the present and the future, and how you treat people in your life. You don't
want to take the chance, do you, that they would suddenly pop off and come back to haunt you?
Food for thought.
If that is your karma coming back to haunt you, I would hate to think someone has to die in order to give you back
the grief you gave them. I for one, do not mind dishing back the Karma that I have received from that person. I do
not go out purposely to unleash negative Karma on anyone - that would be hateful. However, if you have ever crossed me .. beware ...
hell hath no fury like a woman scorned ...
The Egg Harlot (another story) will get her just desserts. She has inflicted enough grief in my life to drive
me to floating down the river on my back. Is that Karma? Driving me insane? Her punishment is to live in the veil
of stupidity she calls a life... Patience and all will be revealed....