Karma Question (was Dali Lama CD Chant)

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I am still thinking about karma, Brandi!

A good example I often use is the life and loves of Mia Farrow. In

the 60s, she befriended Andre Previn and his wife Dory. As it

turned out, Mia started a relationship with Andre, and Dory was out

of the picture. Dory, a musician, wrote a poignant song about Mia,

and claimed that Mia befriended them because she wanted Andre, and

succeeded. The song is called " Beware of young girls " . Mia was

about 22yrs old then.

While Mia was with Andre, they adopted two children from Asia, one

of whom is SoonYi. So 20 years down the track, SoonYi does to Mia

what Mia did to Dory! How is that for karma?!

CV

 

 

 

 

, Brandi Jasmine

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> At 06:33 PM 2/13/2008, you wrote:

> >Do you think you create karma from it?

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> If you look at karma as reward/punishment on the basis of a moral

code, maybe. I don't see karma as punishment or reward. I see karma

as more of a reflection of our innate reactions, as carried both

through the current and past lives.

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> There are four fundamental human reactions, flight, fight, freeze

and facade. All human reactions are one or a combination of these

four " methodologies " . Each of us learns what ones we pick through

trial and error, and they are generally set in childhood. At first,

they work for us, but as we grow up, they become part of our habits,

so much so, we even mistake them for our " persona " . A boy

learns " big boys don't cry " , so he learns to hold in his feelings.

By the time he's a man, he has no ability to express emotion at all,

and he wonders why all his relationships are failures. A girl learns

that to speak truth is to invite abuse in her family, so she

pretends that everything is okay. She hides behind lies, hints and

flirtation. Then she wonders as an adult why nobody understands her.

A resulting pattern emerges, and we begin to wonder if we

are " cursed " when the truth is, for the most part, it is our own

behavior that is creating the repeating disasters. We don't " choose "

the disasters .. but we do choose our reactions.

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> I think karma works the same way. We use the reactions we learned

in this life, and in lifetimes previously, to set ourselves up over

and over again. There is no mystical karma accounting god sitting in

a corner visiting punishment on us. We don't even do it to

ourselves, not deliberately. We just fail to see how we're our own

worst enemy. It's a user-supported energy system <g> ... god/dess

doesn't have to lift a finger. The secret to karma is to learn to

find those patterns, learn to understand our reactions. " Know

thyself, and you shall set yourself free " .

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> Brandi

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