Thread: Inverse Karma

Thats a real bummer about your a/c. Down here in Florida, the a/c is not a luxury its a necessity. I hope it was only a window unit and not central air. My dad always told me "free your mind and your butt will follow".

The Bomb is calypso. I just like spicy scents.
It was a central AC unit. Fortunately we have a dry heat here, but after 100 F it sucks pretty bad too. I'm glad no one as of yet has commented on my misuse of the term Karma. It is meant as no disrespect to the followers, just what I call it in a partially educated mind.

Hmmm...sounds like a self-fullfilling prophesy. On teh other hand, a frined of mine once told me: "As I sat there sad and lonely, a little voice in my head said, 'Cheer up. Things could be worse. So I cheeed up. Sure enough, things got worse'. "

(Just how the heck dou you punctuate a quote inside a quote?)

I knew a guy who called it his "rubber band" theory. The idea is that good days stretch out your rubber band. Too many good days stretch it really tight and eventually, of course, it snaps back and you pay the price for your good days.

I can't say I subscribe to this theory though sometimes life seems to prove it. I just remember the biblical scripture, "the rain falls on the fields of the just as well as the unjust"

Originally Posted by prosneek

Thats a real bummer about your a/c. Down here in Florida, the a/c is not a luxury its a necessity.

BTW prosneek, I grew up in Pinellas County, FL and my parents felt the a/c WAS a luxury and never used it. I now live in Tennessee and yes, we use our a/c daily! (strange...Mom wonders why I don't visit home more often?)

I suppose the reverse "karma" keeps us from getting to comfortable or content. Sometimes we feel that through our own actions we are on top of the world and in control of everything.

The Hasidic Jews have something that puts this (and life) into perspective. They carry two truths in their pocket and pull out whichever is needed at the moment. The first says "the world was made for me", the second, "I am but dust and ashes".

Tony

Karma can be interpreted in many ways, depending on the spiritual path someone chooses.

I believe in reincarnation. Birth is not a beginning and death is not an end. They are two doorways through which we pass many times during our spiritual journey toward the Atonement (reuniting as One with God).

After "death," our spirit returns to the Astral Plane of existence. There our spirit regains the memory of all our previous lifetimes and discusses with other spirits the lessons we learned in this recent lifetime, with the intent of advancing our spiritual growth toward higher levels of existence (eventually reuniting with God--our ultimate goal).

While on the Astral Plane, we are presented with the challenges that need to be met for our continued spiritual growth. We know every event that will ever occur in our next lifetime -- both happy and sad -- because we choose that lifetime for the lessons that we need to learn.

Once we have been born (to the parents of our choosing), we forget all of our previous lifetimes for practical reasons. Imagine what your life would be like from the day of your birth to experience the trauma of natural birth with the complete memory of hundreds or thousands of past lives, only to find yourself unable to express your needs or feed or clean yourself for as long as you are dependent on your parents and others for your basic needs?

having known what to expect and having chosen our lifetime before we are born completely negates the concept of karma. The only variable is what lessons we learn from the experiences we have chosen before we are born into our next incarnation.

I have no investment in changing anyone's mind about karma or spirituality or their belief in what occurs after one's death. Should anyone's curiosity be aroused, however, you might want to read about Ian Stevenson. Ian Stevenson was a professor of psychiatry and head of the Division of Perceptual Studies at the University of Virginia. For a period of 40 years he traveled the world interviewing more than 3,000 children who remembered their past lives. Stevenson's research into reincarnation produced cold, hard, scientific fast that reincarnation is real and true.

If you are the least bit curious about reincarnation, I recommend you read Children's Past Lives and Return From Heaven, both by Carol Bowman. If you read those books with an open mind and a desire to learn, I guarantee they will rock your world and change you forever.
Namaste,
Morty -_-

This sounds like a quantity theory of karma.

There's a fixed amount in the universe. When someone has a great result, someone somewhere else gets a raw deal. Some of us receive more than average, others (therefore) less than average. And that explains why we have life's winners and losers. (Maybe. )

I certainly know last night all England fans were treated to a taste of this quantity theory of karma. Having been placed in a relatively easy qualifying group, our goalkeeper inexplicably makes an error even a can of beans would have avoided.

Karma gave me a big kick up the jacksy last night.

How about not labeling the situation, whatever it may be, as good or bad and simply accept it as it is- something to be dealt with immediately, or not at all, or accepted until such a time when it can be.
It has often been shown(proven perhaps) that through great suffering, true inner joy and peace are achieved which is then not affected by particulars of circumstance.

That's a good way of putting it kevint. I have a friend who said, " Whatever it is and whoever is your deity. He is testing you. He has great plans for you and needs to prove to you when the time comes, you can handle any challenge that comes your way."
Btw an update I have fixed my air conditioner and all wiring for under $40.
YAY!