Does Karma Exist?
Darryl Thomas & Andrea Rossouw
“KARMA” is a universal notion of divine justice or retribution found in all religions in one form or another and widely understood as a principle of cause and effect. This notion invariably states that the actions committed by Human Beings in their lives will have direct consequences that will determine their fates in future existences. This is supposedly done in order to provide a means for transcending the physical world, but in reality, those who ascribe to the Law of Karma largely remain within the moral bounds of a particular society and help keep it stable.
In ancient times, the word ‘Karma’ had magical and ritualistic connotations which suggested sacrifice, or a ritual act. Its current definitions contain such notions as action, effect and fate. Karma is directly linked to machinations of the endless cycles of reincarnation. Both Buddhist and Hindu religious systems teach that Karma is the condition that human beings find themselves is always the result of the actions taken in a previous life.
There are different schools in Hinduism that teach slightly different versions of Karma, but in the main, the Hindus consider Karma as a law, a self-correcting cosmic apparatus working to the end result of purifying all desire and thus liberate the soul. Karma strongly implies Free Will, as it is the Will of the being that determines their Karmic condition.
The Law of Karma cleverly justifies the creation and continuation of the Caste Division social arrangement found in Hindu cultures. The lower caste people are persuaded to perform admirably within their caste so they can be rewarded with being promoted to the higher caste in their next life. Karma is thus used to explain and justify inequality in the world and by extension, Karma also neatly explains the Problem of Evil.
“All living beings have actions (Karma) as their own, their inheritance, their congenital cause, their kinsman, their refuge,” Buddha is reported to have said. “It is Karma that differentiates beings into low and high states.”
To the Buddhist, Karma is a law unto itself, acting blindly and perfectly giving each being its due. Nowhere is it said how Karma Law came into being. Ignorance is the chief cause of Karma, since it involves Acts of Will.
In terms of the Christian Religion, it can be said the Jesus took on the karma of the entire Human Race with his death on the cross. In other cultures, the “Golden Ruleî (do unto others as you would have been done unto you) exists in some version or another.
Neopaganism & Wicca term karma as Luck or as “what goes around comes around,” or what a being does will come back to them. This acts as a deterrent to ‘naughty behavior. ‘Positive and negative energy (Love and Fear, for example) are the determinants. New Agers are often quick to justify suffering in the world as the “choice” of a being that must be “honored,” which closely mirrors the Hindu notion of people always get what they deserve. Morality is deeply implied when ‘choices’ are made. The New Age Movement considers the universe and this world to be creations of the mind, so we create our reality according to the moral and immoral thoughts and actions we choose to undertake.
Now that we’ve had a quick look at the concept of Karma, what can we say about its function in real world? Has Karma been an active force in the world? Can Karma be detected in the sweep of history? Does Karma even exist?
The proponents of Law of Karma claim that it works towards the purification of human beings through a process of doling out consequences that match a being’s actions to their experiences. This should result in a world that is obviously evolving towards perfection, towards equality, towards balance as the Karmic ties are burned in the purification of corrective experiences. But it is more than obvious that the world is in worse shape than ever, thanks to the one thing that has proven its trajectory of evolution; that of mind-manifested technology, which indicates that Karma does not work as advertised. Inequality is increasing as the rich take all that is left while the more of the poor go without. The Law of Karma, as it is currently understood, offers no direct insight into the actual mechanics of how world systems operate for the good of all.
Two more points to consider: the soul construct and the Akashic Records. The interdimensional investigation into the soul construct and the Akashic Records by Desteni found that memories of a being’s life were contained within the soul construct and deposited and stored in the Akashic Records. The being’s previous life lessons could not be accessed in the being’s next life since the memories were erased or the being was given a new soul. Many of us have lived the same life over and over for millennia, without learning a goddamn thing about ourselves and are ‘apparent lessons’ or our past lives. Where is the human being’s evolution of equality and oneness? It doesn’t exist because we forgot everything we did between lives when or memories were wiped by the White Light.
Thus, the dimensional existence which existed as “Heaven” was able to maintain control and guarantee that the beings on earth would continue to supply Heaven with energy siphoned off from human desire and suffering.
Karma was created as a design where the suffering that should have gone to the elite for their abuse was instead spread out among the experiences of other beings, life after life after life. The Elite escaped their karmic debts that were paid by the people who continuously suffered in the Lower Castes of the worlds societies, life after life, their suffering all that they existed as.
The reason for this ’spreading of Karmic debt’ was so that people continued to participate in the world systems without questioning the rich, the money system or the elite.
A sense of defeatism and ultimately ‘giving into the system’ happens because nobody is able to show that ‘The Elite’ or troublemakers within society ‘get what is coming to them.’
Therefore a mindset develops where people become equally dependent in and trusting of the same systems that support the Elite without any apparent consequence.
Instead of seeing Karma as consequence of what the rich and poor allow as the current design of economic systems, where the foundation is that of abuse, we accept that it is irrelevant what you do because you are either.
(1) already living out past Karmic debt, so sit back and deal with it, or
(2) karma does not work/exist for this life time at least for the ones who are ‘living the life’ at the expense of others.
The common sense points that are missed with regards to Karma
* Karma stands as enslavement to something we donít even remember doing.
* We abdicate self responsibility this life time (whether future Karmic complications exist or not) solely because we give into an idea based on knowledge from books that apparently some grand scheme is playing out and we are just the Cosmic Bystanders experiencing it. The Law of Karma is simply hearsay, where we blindly believe what we read in books because we want to believe in a mystical, spiritual life where one day, something will reward us for apparently being ‘good people’.
* How are we ‘good people’ if we stand around allowing abuse of each other to support the world systems that support the Elite, apparently the beneficiaries of ‘good Karma,’ which we have not seen for ourselves, but rather see within what we would like to experience for ourselves.
* That each person might as well ’strive to live a better life.’ This in itself indicates that most humans who die attempting to be religious and good are the same ones coming back again in middle to poorer class lives. Common sense – the ratio of elite to poor is not equal, but nobody who adheres to the Karma doctrines seem to get that. Speak to any person on the street and they will either explain to you that there s a god, deity, karmic system or personalized spiritual Ideal that they live – all this indicating that people believe in some ‘reward/punishment system’ after death. If you look at the level of abuse and poverty, the awful reality of living within the jaws of a nightmare does not correlate to the general mind set of human beings that are able to purchase their survival. Thus within our research, we have focused on the designs of self within the larger world systems right down to each person’s role within the bigger system design – thus showing that Karma Is just another system design to keep humans hoping, fearing, believing, desiring – without actual self movement within self responsibility for what we have all accepted this world to be.
* Common sense: we suggest stop finding excuses for why we should accept things the way they are – because what we accept and tacitly agree to is directly playing out in our world. We are able to see using common sense when we look at the human mind consciousness systems and how they ‘play out in the world.’
* Karma as the definition of itself misses the point of self honesty, because it gives a reason for people acting as they do.
* Karma misses the point of self trust because it says: your life is a cosmic design based in a lesson, so why trust yourself to be self honest as self correction.
* Karma misses the point of self-forgiveness because it says that you might forgive yourself now but if you donít stick to the laws of religious belief, which in itself separates the being from self-directive/trusting/forgiving/honesty: then you will again come back in the next life to be punished by a Karmic law and not your own law of self realization.[1]
* Karma misses the point of self-responsibility because your life is a design managed within world systems, therefore to be responsible in ones words and actions is to ‘dishonor’ the world systems/structures/designs. This is clearly seen in the words of ’spiritual’ people who react in shock when somebody declares that they stop participating in the designs that are here because they create enslavement to the world systems that support the elite.
*Common sense: Karma works solely from a point of hearsay because nobody has actually witnessed the process of Karmic debt ‘attaching itself to somebody’ – or the process of being sent in your next life time into a body best suited for you to face your ‘lesson.’ We would much rather imagine or deal with knowledge from books that support what we believe is true rather than the actuality of what we do witness (I witness) here – and how through our individual abdication of self responsibility, self forgiveness, self honesty, self direction – give our power away to the system we designed to serve a few while billions suffer, hoping that by believing in some ‘Karmic’ Idea, the mess will sort itself out or we will one day experience what It is like on the other end of the human experience and be born into many riches!
Karma as the experience of one and equal, here
Since the Akashic Records has been deleted along with the White Light a few years ago, Karma is now being enforced and operating as it should have.
So now when people die, they will experience what they left behind.
All will be given the opportunity in one life to prove to existence that they are worthy of life.
The Golden Rule that Jesus tried to convey 2000 years ago applies absolutely: do to others as you would want to be done to you.
Self forgiveness is the tool to stop all karma practically, to take responsibility for the cycles we have participated in for many a year and thus realize through self honesty that if we do not stop the action reaction, the cycle continues. If we do not stop the blame, the cycle continues.
Does Karma Exist?
Darryl Thomas & Andrea Rossouw
“KARMA” is a universal notion of divine justice or retribution found in all religions in one form or another and widely understood as a principle of cause and effect. This notion invariably states that the actions committed by Human Beings in their lives will have direct consequences that will determine their fates in future existences. This is supposedly done in order to provide a means for transcending the physical world, but in reality, those who ascribe to the Law of Karma largely remain within the moral bounds of a particular society and help keep it stable.
In ancient times, the word ‘Karma’ had magical and ritualistic connotations which suggested sacrifice, or a ritual act. Its current definitions contain such notions as action, effect and fate. Karma is directly linked to machinations of the endless cycles of reincarnation. Both Buddhist and Hindu religious systems teach that Karma is the condition that human beings find themselves is always the result of the actions taken in a previous life.
There are different schools in Hinduism that teach slightly different versions of Karma, but in the main, the Hindus consider Karma as a law, a self-correcting cosmic apparatus working to the end result of purifying all desire and thus liberate the soul. Karma strongly implies Free Will, as it is the Will of the being that determines their Karmic condition.
The Law of Karma cleverly justifies the creation and continuation of the Caste Division social arrangement found in Hindu cultures. The lower caste people are persuaded to perform admirably within their caste so they can be rewarded with being promoted to the higher caste in their next life. Karma is thus used to explain and justify inequality in the world and by extension, Karma also neatly explains the Problem of Evil.
“All living beings have actions (Karma) as their own, their inheritance, their congenital cause, their kinsman, their refuge,” Buddha is reported to have said. “It is Karma that differentiates beings into low and high states.”
To the Buddhist, Karma is a law unto itself, acting blindly and perfectly giving each being its due. Nowhere is it said how Karma Law came into being. Ignorance is the chief cause of Karma, since it involves Acts of Will.
In terms of the Christian Religion, it can be said the Jesus took on the karma of the entire Human Race with his death on the cross. In other cultures, the “Golden Ruleî (do unto others as you would have been done unto you) exists in some version or another.
Neopaganism & Wicca term karma as Luck or as “what goes around comes around,” or what a being does will come back to them. This acts as a deterrent to ‘naughty behavior. ‘Positive and negative energy (Love and Fear, for example) are the determinants. New Agers are often quick to justify suffering in the world as the “choice” of a being that must be “honored,” which closely mirrors the Hindu notion of people always get what they deserve. Morality is deeply implied when ‘choices’ are made. The New Age Movement considers the universe and this world to be creations of the mind, so we create our reality according to the moral and immoral thoughts and actions we choose to undertake.
Now that we’ve had a quick look at the concept of Karma, what can we say about its function in real world? Has Karma been an active force in the world? Can Karma be detected in the sweep of history? Does Karma even exist?
The proponents of Law of Karma claim that it works towards the purification of human beings through a process of doling out consequences that match a being’s actions to their experiences. This should result in a world that is obviously evolving towards perfection, towards equality, towards balance as the Karmic ties are burned in the purification of corrective experiences. But it is more than obvious that the world is in worse shape than ever, thanks to the one thing that has proven its trajectory of evolution; that of mind-manifested technology, which indicates that Karma does not work as advertised. Inequality is increasing as the rich take all that is left while the more of the poor go without. The Law of Karma, as it is currently understood, offers no direct insight into the actual mechanics of how world systems operate for the good of all.
Two more points to consider: the soul construct and the Akashic Records. The interdimensional investigation into the soul construct and the Akashic Records by Desteni found that memories of a being’s life were contained within the soul construct and deposited and stored in the Akashic Records. The being’s previous life lessons could not be accessed in the being’s next life since the memories were erased or the being was given a new soul. Many of us have lived the same life over and over for millennia, without learning a goddamn thing about ourselves and are ‘apparent lessons’ or our past lives. Where is the human being’s evolution of equality and oneness? It doesn’t exist because we forgot everything we did between lives when or memories were wiped by the White Light.
Thus, the dimensional existence which existed as “Heaven” was able to maintain control and guarantee that the beings on earth would continue to supply Heaven with energy siphoned off from human desire and suffering.
Karma was created as a design where the suffering that should have gone to the elite for their abuse was instead spread out among the experiences of other beings, life after life after life. The Elite escaped their karmic debts that were paid by the people who continuously suffered in the Lower Castes of the worlds societies, life after life, their suffering all that they existed as.
The reason for this ’spreading of Karmic debt’ was so that people continued to participate in the world systems without questioning the rich, the money system or the elite.
A sense of defeatism and ultimately ‘giving into the system’ happens because nobody is able to show that ‘The Elite’ or troublemakers within society ‘get what is coming to them.’
Therefore a mindset develops where people become equally dependent in and trusting of the same systems that support the Elite without any apparent consequence.
Instead of seeing Karma as consequence of what the rich and poor allow as the current design of economic systems, where the foundation is that of abuse, we accept that it is irrelevant what you do because you are either.
(1) already living out past Karmic debt, so sit back and deal with it, or
(2) karma does not work/exist for this life time at least for the ones who are ‘living the life’ at the expense of others.
The common sense points that are missed with regards to Karma
* Karma stands as enslavement to something we donít even remember doing.
* We abdicate self responsibility this life time (whether future Karmic complications exist or not) solely because we give into an idea based on knowledge from books that apparently some grand scheme is playing out and we are just the Cosmic Bystanders experiencing it. The Law of Karma is simply hearsay, where we blindly believe what we read in books because we want to believe in a mystical, spiritual life where one day, something will reward us for apparently being ‘good people’.
* How are we ‘good people’ if we stand around allowing abuse of each other to support the world systems that support the Elite, apparently the beneficiaries of ‘good Karma,’ which we have not seen for ourselves, but rather see within what we would like to experience for ourselves.
* That each person might as well ’strive to live a better life.’ This in itself indicates that most humans who die attempting to be religious and good are the same ones coming back again in middle to poorer class lives. Common sense – the ratio of elite to poor is not equal, but nobody who adheres to the Karma doctrines seem to get that. Speak to any person on the street and they will either explain to you that there s a god, deity, karmic system or personalized spiritual Ideal that they live – all this indicating that people believe in some ‘reward/punishment system’ after death. If you look at the level of abuse and poverty, the awful reality of living within the jaws of a nightmare does not correlate to the general mind set of human beings that are able to purchase their survival. Thus within our research, we have focused on the designs of self within the larger world systems right down to each person’s role within the bigger system design – thus showing that Karma Is just another system design to keep humans hoping, fearing, believing, desiring – without actual self movement within self responsibility for what we have all accepted this world to be.
* Common sense: we suggest stop finding excuses for why we should accept things the way they are – because what we accept and tacitly agree to is directly playing out in our world. We are able to see using common sense when we look at the human mind consciousness systems and how they ‘play out in the world.’
* Karma as the definition of itself misses the point of self honesty, because it gives a reason for people acting as they do.
* Karma misses the point of self trust because it says: your life is a cosmic design based in a lesson, so why trust yourself to be self honest as self correction.
* Karma misses the point of self-forgiveness because it says that you might forgive yourself now but if you donít stick to the laws of religious belief, which in itself separates the being from self-directive/trusting/forgiving/honesty: then you will again come back in the next life to be punished by a Karmic law and not your own law of self realization.[1]
* Karma misses the point of self-responsibility because your life is a design managed within world systems, therefore to be responsible in ones words and actions is to ‘dishonor’ the world systems/structures/designs. This is clearly seen in the words of ’spiritual’ people who react in shock when somebody declares that they stop participating in the designs that are here because they create enslavement to the world systems that support the elite.
*Common sense: Karma works solely from a point of hearsay because nobody has actually witnessed the process of Karmic debt ‘attaching itself to somebody’ – or the process of being sent in your next life time into a body best suited for you to face your ‘lesson.’ We would much rather imagine or deal with knowledge from books that support what we believe is true rather than the actuality of what we do witness (I witness) here – and how through our individual abdication of self responsibility, self forgiveness, self honesty, self direction – give our power away to the system we designed to serve a few while billions suffer, hoping that by believing in some ‘Karmic’ Idea, the mess will sort itself out or we will one day experience what It is like on the other end of the human experience and be born into many riches!
Karma as the experience of one and equal, here
Since the Akashic Records has been deleted along with the White Light a few years ago, Karma is now being enforced and operating as it should have.
So now when people die, they will experience what they left behind.
All will be given the opportunity in one life to prove to existence that they are worthy of life.
The Golden Rule that Jesus tried to convey 2000 years ago applies absolutely: do to others as you would want to be done to you.
Self forgiveness is the tool to stop all karma practically, to take responsibility for the cycles we have participated in for many a year and thus realize through self honesty that if we do not stop the action reaction, the cycle continues. If we do not stop the blame, the cycle continues.
Our Daily Bread
Posted in Commentary with tags Bread, Desteni, Equal Money, Equality, Jesus, Miracle of the Loaves and Fishees on August 25, 2009 by EqualMoney4all“GIVE US THIS DAY OUR DAILY BREAD”
In Exodus, the LORD gave the Israelites Manna from Heaven after their escape from the Egyptians. The story goes like this:
“When the Israelites saw it, they said to one another, ‘What is it?’ For they did not know what it was. Moses said to them, ‘It is the bread that the Lord has given you to eat. This is what the Lord has commanded: “Gather as much of it as each of you needs, an omer to a person according to the number of persons, all providing for those in their own tents.” The Israelites did so, some gathering more, some less. But when they measured it with an omer, those who gathered much had nothing over, and those who gathered little had no shortage; they gathered as much as each of them needed.” [Exodus 16. 15-18]
The passages in the Gospels gives us a few famous references to bread. where Jesus performs a great miracle, one of the most well-known is that of the multiplication of the bread and loaves. This is one of the only times within the NT that this story appears in all four gospels. It is an interesting story, and in it, Jesus and his disciples are stuck out in some isolated “desert place” during their travels. This in itself would be scarcely worth mention, but the problem was that 4000 “men” followed Jesus out there and remained with him for over three days, and were getting hungry. Jesus tells his students that he feels sorry for the crowd and realizes that they were too far away from the towns The disciples are freaking because they don’t have any idea how to get food for the mob.
Jesus asks how many loaves of bread were on hand. Seven loaves and bits of fish. Jesus ordered the crowd to sit down and gave thanks for the bread and broke it and had his disciples serve the crowd. The Bible states that the entire crowd “ate and were filled.” There were even seven baskets of left overs. While the Gospels fail to mention what happened to this surplus, what is the meaning, if any, behind this miracle story?
One the surface, this “miracle” (if it really happened)[1] consists of an impossible exchange ratio of bread to the people in the crowd. Not only was everyone fed, but there was more than enough left over. All from a meager amount of fish. Jesus as the Living Word is capable in of serving many equally. “Give us this day our daily bread,” goes the “Lord’s Prayer.” Even when Jesus tells his students that “Man cannot live by bread alone,” here he sees the situation as dire enough to sensibly provide people the illogical; multiplying bread from very little. The day is saved for these folk.
But for everyone else who has gone hungry ever since the this story has been circulated, this miracle remains meaningless and empty gesture. For the Lord our God does not give us our daily bread. By the sweat of our brow (or for those who have internet access, the sweat of somebody else’s brow) we make our bread. It is telling that in the Gospel story of the multiplication of the loaves that the disciples complain that they don’t have enough money to buy enough read for the crowd. Jesus, as the Living Word overruled that objection by speaking his gratitude for what he had and served the people. Yeah, that was really great. But what about the rest of us? Do we not all deserve a miracle? And if not, don’t we all at least deserve our Daily Bread?
Jesus’ famous comment that “the poor shall be always with you” placed against this backdrop of the Loaves and Fishes creates a cognitive dissonance. Is Jesus admitting that the existence of the “poor” was something that just had to be? Did Jesus place this quote in resignation? Did he misunderstand the capacity of self-interest people have? Did he just get it all wrong? Were these words even spoken by Jesus?
Maybe the “Poor will always be with us” because we have accepted this judgment as “the way things are.” I mean, if Jesus says so, who’s to argue? If Jesus could have expounded on that, maybe he would have said something about the human being’s unlimited, relentless sense of self-interest and abuse. What Jesus did seem to realize was that the people were faced with scarcity and did not have enough common sense not to travel long distances without food. And while the myth offers an alternative to the abusive, self-interested path of economic Darwinism and Capitalism by providing food for all in the name of “service,” with the principle of equality and oneness is fully realized as everyone was fed and miraculaously, along with a ginormus amount of “leftovers.”
2000 years of Christianity has not moved the human race past this one point: that all are Children of God and thus deserve a life befitting a Child of God. If we have not moved from the fear of not having enough fucking money to buy bread, then when will we?
This isn’t the blog I intended to write. I wanted to write something that linked the Miracle of the Loaves and Fish with the Living Principle of Equality and Oneness, but nothing relevant or practical is coming up. Now all I’ve done is plunge myself into a slight depression.
MONEY CREATES SCARCITY AND POWER
In the South African Sunday Times August 2, 2009, there appeared an article written by Jacklyn Cock with the headline, “Stand up to those who profit from our daily bread.” The article claims that massive profiteering on the part of the producers and distributors of bread at the expense of the poor. The price of bread has increased 41% since last year which is “devastating to the working class.” In 2007 Tiger Brands was fined nearly one million rand which then later coincidentally increased their prices citing “higher wheat costs.” Lack of bread appears to be Power. Who controls the Bread controls the People. I wonder if this ever occurred to Jesus, and if it did, why didn’t he do more about it?
So, since God, Moses, Elisha, Mahamet, Buddha, Shiva, Yahweh (or those who stand in their place, you know, the great, stateless corporations) is not going to share equally as Jesus did in that nameless desert 2000 years ago. we are going to have to do it ourselves.
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