The earthquake & karma

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On Mon, 29 Jan 2001 18:16:17

 

GCWein1111 wrote:

 

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>have to admit too that my shallow knowledge of the law of karma doesn't help

>me here. lt is sobering, to say the least, to consider that 120,000 people

>are starving every day on this planet. But it's even harder for me to feel

>confident that individual karma plays a role when a natural disaster like an

>earthquake takes a huge toll in what seems like such an arbitrary way.

 

The starving of 120 000 people each day on the planet /is/ tied to the karma (if

there is anything which can be called as such) and the lives of the other 5

billion ++ people not starving to death on the planet. It's the forgetfulness of

this interconnectedness across borders and geographical and political lines and

the belief that some countries and nations have the right to a certain standard

of life- style on the expense of others that indirectly creates the starvation.

The planet still has enough food for everyone, but it is the system of sharing

which does not work in the favor of no one having to go hungry.

 

My

>impression has been that, recognizing the difficulty in trying to explain

>this in terms of individual karma, people usually propose the concept of

>national karma or some form of group karma, but l've never actually heard it

>fully discussed.

The concept of karma may in its simplest form may be seen as psychological

impulses, psychological directions and emotional memory stored in various places

of the bodymind, being of varying strength and being visible to the conscious

mind to varying degrees. They range from simple survival reflexes to more

calculated actions and more complex personality traits, but the component of

inheritance and body / flesh / reflexes of the body, is always there to some

degree. Of course, this has little to do with being hit by an earthquake, which

is a geological phenomenon affecting a certain place.

 

The individual karma / psychological impulses are to some degree dependent on

the location and upbringing of the individual. This is most easily seen when

going abroad and observing how accepted and desired behaviors, and even a simple

thing such as body language, change when going from one place to another. Thus,

a collection of pyschological impulses may be common for people growing up at

the same time and in the same location. However, how and where to set the limits

of what constitutes individual karma, family karma, town karma, national karma,

etc depends on definition and may not be useful to do at all.

 

And also, karma is not equal to punishment or sin.

 

 

 

Love,

 

Amanda.

 

 

 

 

 

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