When people speak of karma, what we are referring to is the the Buddhas teaching on the law of causality, or that of cause and effect. Karma is a dynamic process of inter-related causes and effects, actions and results, meaning that it is actively functioning in every moment and in all things which are within the realms of existence. All things reap and inherit the effects of karma. To begin to understand karma we should know that all actions stem from a cause and come to results, which in turn are a further cause for further results and so on.. this being the case karma is a active and reactive turning of events and their effects, all things being inter-connected within its workings.
The law of causality is a law which can not be broken, spoken, stamped on paper, or effectively corrupted, it is simply the law which is always working behind the scenes in all our actions and the reactions which occur throughout our experiences in the inconceivable amount of re-births, going through living and dying over and over, being victim to the dissatisfactoriness of life, searching for our true self in all our experiences throughout time, since time is beyond an inconceivable beginning. In our wanderings we have become lost because we have become victim to our senses thinking that we should seek happiness in material goods and wealth, while become a slave to our senses continuing to seek to satisfy our pittiful desires, and in doing so we have become entangled in the workings of the world losing sight of who we really are.
Karma works on many levels I could say, and it has both subtle and grosser qualities taking effect in an infinite number of ways, yet all results stem from a cause, and all actions belong to the doer of the actions. We each become subject to the results of our own doings, but not necessarily straight away, and not necessarily will we recognise the effects of our actions as being likened to the cause, yet we can know by our own experiences that where we apply ourselves with good intentions we are likely to get good results, and where we apply ourselves with intentions which are motivated by ill-will, greed, selfishness, or hatred, then we will likely get results which we consider to be negative results, leading to further crappyness, dissatisfaction, and suffering. This is because karma is interactive throughout all things at all times and so the effects of our actions will also be influenced and balanced with an uncountable number of other inter-woven causes and effects. But time has proven to us through demonstration that on a larger scale we ourselves are the benefactors of our karma, we can expect to benefit if we act accordingly to the way which is right, and we can expect to experience suffering if we choose to act in ways which are conducive to harm.
It could be noted that there is no good karma or bad karma. karma is simply the working law of cause and effect, so whatever karma takes a result it is simply a result, whether that is good or bad is distinguished by our personal preferences and opinions at the time, as such we give it a category in either ..good.. or ..bad.., but in reality karma is neither good or bad, it is just the way things turn out according to the deeds we do, so we should take some care in choosing how we act in this life, without due care we are likely to revolve in the cyclic existence of life getting lost again and again, inhabiting the realms of others where suffering takes on a new meaning, and all because we lived in ignorance.
Again, i dont complete understand me life. i seek wisdom. anywhere anytime. any is greatly loved, and welcomed.
Did i miss something? Have i got my philosiphy wrong? Comment, and state your voice, be heard. I'm always listening!
- Krill
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