(10-15-2013, 03:47 PM)SargeMaximus Wrote:(10-15-2013, 01:02 PM)Shannon Wrote: I suggest you make an effort to read the books I suggested. That should help you understand karma much better.
Yeah I will, sounds like karma is different than I previously believed.
But that brings me to a sticking point: if what we believe influences our reality, doesn't believing that I am beyond karma ALSO influence my reality so that I truly am?
The nature of reality is such that one may shape it as desired, but only within the laws that make it what it is. One can go anywhere in a room, for instance, but walking through walls is not going to happen because the walls are what makes the room what it is.
The nature of the physical reality in which we find ourselves is bound by laws that include karma. Maybe other physical realities are't; but we're not in other physical realities. We're in this one.
Keep in mind that I don't claim to know absolutely or everything. This is all my best understanding so far. It forms a pretty complete system, and it makes very solid sense. But every time I think I know enough to be content, along comes more information that I didn't know before, and it adds on to or advances what I understand.
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