Guest guest Posted September 20, 1999 Report Share Posted September 20, 1999 Tony - to explain for myself why I responded as I did - your statement, perhaps well-intentioned, unfortunately, carried much the same logic as Charlie Manson when he said, "Hitler really leveled the karma of the Jews." There is something to look at here, not simply a matter of who has it right or wrong. The thing to look at is how ideas about karma can be misused. Please note that karma has been used for centuries to justify maintaining a class system (which is still quite intact although illegal) that clearly involves prejudice and exclusion from resources. Ideas about karma need to be looked into carefully and with awareness. Particularly if one sees that there are no separate entities, karma ends up being a web with no one in the web -- therefore a cause and effect analysis of a reality that is beyond cause and effect. Because the reality that includes the appearance of cause and effect is itself causeless, karma is a construction that has limitations. Love, Dan >I cannot believe how many people got me wrong, and I am the >undereducated one!!!!????? My expression must be bad. > "All is as it should be', means the balance of karma!!!!!! >It doesn't mean that we shouldn't have compassion or interfere to >prevent evil as in Timor, Kosova etc. Even if it is all a play of the >gunas, and illusory, we still have to deal with. If we are not >realised. Ultimately we have to rise above the opposites and see all as >one and good. Just an appearance on the Self!! A dream if you will. 'I >am', is still Saguna for instance. > >Love and Sai Ram, Tony. > >=== >http://members.xoom.com/aoclery/ > >Keep on truckin-Chant the Gayatri! > >"God is formless. In order to merge in the formless God, > you have to give up identification with the body." >"There is only one Soul and that is God." Sai Baba. > > >Bid and sell for free at http://auctions. > >>All paths go somewhere. No path goes nowhere. The Radical Truth is Radiance of Awareness. It is Total Independence and Ever Present. The Truth needs no psychological or spiritual crutches. It needs no philosophy, no religion, no explanation, no teaching, and no teacher, and yet It is always their support. A true devotee relishes in the Truth. The Truth of Self-Knowledge which is Pure Intelligence. Welcome all to a. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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