The confusing thing for me, I can see exactly how karma works in my own life and would bet my last dollars that its totally real and pertains to me.
But when I think of karma in regards to other people...like how little girls get raped, killed and thrown in the ocean like its nothing...and how theres so many starving people and just how bad things happen to good people, I just cant see how karma could possibly exist. So yeah, its very confusing to me and I don't know what to believe when it comes to "what goes around comes around" and "you get what you give" and just karma in general.
-------------------- Something there is mysteriously formed, Existing before Heaven and Earth, Silent, still, standing alone, unchanging, All-pervading, unfailing, I do not know its name; I call it tao. If forced to give it a name, I call it Great (ta). Being great, it flows out; Flowing out means far-reaching; Being far-reaching, it is said to return. It's just a shot away..
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i feel like i've learned how people are interconnected. And how no matter what you do, good or bad, you will live a life and pay some consequences, but ultimatly you have no control of what happens. So hapiness and sadness exist, one to contrast the other, you have to accept what happens because it's going to happen regardless, just learn to enjoy it and live in the moment.
I've also felt that at times you can alter your path, not that you can change you fate, but you can recognize when changes around you are occuring, and sort of ride them like a wave. If you do it successfully and with not self doubt things always seem to work out. I remember this some caoncept as a kid, and always, the moment i thought i would fall, or trip ect. i would, and aslong as i was bold and fearless with no self doubt i would persevere, even if at first i am challenged with a possible failure.
I kind of view life as a sort of still pool of water, or a flat sheet, somewhat how the universe it portrayed at times. Each time any action is taken, buy any part of life here, it creates like a ripple effect, causing reactions, around them, even to the smallest degree. So much interaction turns a flat placid pool in to an ocean with wild but somewhat predictable currents. If you can pick up on the current, you can ride it to success in any place in life.
I feel as though we are all connected, and not just ina metaphorical sense, but in a literal sense. In the sense of we are already at singularity, and there never was a big bang. We are a single entity, solid matter, all singular consciousness is somewhat like a neurotransmitter, or provide some other kind of semi-bodily funtion to a larger being that we are a part of.
To a degree quantum physics, and all recent findings are pointing towards this. We are all made of the same things, and inside those things are even smaller parts, quarks, and penta-quarks. outside of us the atmosphere is filled with chemical compounds, oxygen nitrogen helium, ect. and between them are more quarks, or whatever. Everything is in physical contact at all times. It's more like we're wading through a pool of water, than drifting through space. Even space, it if full, dark mater and radioactive particales. They all have mass, and it's infinate. Maybe there is a barrier somewhere, but it only transitions, it never stops.
So i try to live my life by these principals of interconnectedness, to treat those fairly and try to love unconditionally. I cannot say that i always live up to this standard but i try.
I try also to accept the good and the bad that fate can deal, and try to keep a positive attitude, because i have little control over these situations. In doing so it allows me to maintain a more confident attitude, feeling less defeated by some of the events in life that are unpleasant. i feel more sure of my actions, so i follow my intuition which proves to create more success than anything else.
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