Shannon's Journal Discussion Volume 3

[Shannon]

Are you talking about Karma ? You a believer ?
I've always believed that karma stuff is just a lie from gurus so that they can keep their power for themselves and scare people from doing what they want.

I go on evidence to form my beliefs. And I can tell you, doing whatever you want will bite you in the end if it unbalances the equation. Whether it's now or later. I have been bitten by my misunderstanding of that fact many times, and I have used my understanding of that fact to win many times as well.

If you want to call it karma or simply the universe maintaining balance, it is there. And if you want to test it, I'm sure that eventually you will learn what I know from painful experience. Belief is not required, which is a good thing.

How? And win what? You mean you're recognizing how to get "good karma" ? Sorry, not sure I'm getting the point.

If you "believe" in karma, does that mean you believe in bad karma from past lives too ? Man, like if current's life h/c wasn't enough to deal with.

The word karma is perhaps the most misunderstood word in the English language. There are very, very few who really understand what it is, and what it means.

I could write a book and still not fully explain my understanding of that word, but that is something I neither have time for nor interest in. This also isn't the right place for it.

The simplest way to explain this state is, when you unbalance the equation, it will return to balance. That is the nature of the universe; all things and beings are either in a state of perfect balance, or they are in the process of returning to or achieving that state.

When you do something that harms someone (even yourself), it counts as unbalancing the equation.

This is a subject that needs to be discussed further in the chatter box. Unfortunately, right now I do not have time to expound on it.