We've all heard things said that sound similar to, every cause has an effect, there's a positive and negative side to everything.
But what do we mean by this in reference to the word we sometimes throw around all too often,
KARMA?
Karma by definition is, the sum of one's actions in the entirety of their existence. A following effect of a persons actionable causes.
For some this seems to be somewhat of a punishment or repercussion of an act they may have done that was bad in a sense, or a selfish or evil act.
People may say from time to time, if wronged by another. "Don't worry they'll get their Karma."
Are we each pre-warranted on some level to get what is coming to us. If we put someone down, or steal, or get mad at a person. Will that come to mean that, on some level, we are predestined to receive an equal effect upon us to pay for that karmic debt.
There are systems of numerology and the cosmos that in some way help you determine what type of Karma you may be living out in your life. Some universal equation to resolve the wrongs we may have secured on some level or another.
Communities believe that people reap what they sow. And on some plane of thinking, human beings take solace in the thought that people will get what they deserve. A kind of, you break my car window then something bad will happen to you. Or if a friend borrows something and loses it....maybe even worse....they still it and never give it back.
This Karma seems to always be an external effect from an external action. A physical thing done or said that must be repented through a similar external circumstance to pay off the debt.
We may even derive some satisfaction in knowing we got to see or hear of some form of Karma taking place on a individual we believed deserved it. Not that we want something bad to happen but that we want a sort of regard for our suffering.
If this is to be true than to a degree we are all paying for Karma debts all the time. Did somebody cut you off today? Well maybe, you did that 3 years ago and need to pay a debt. Did a friend accidentally drop and break your favorite coffee cup? Again, maybe you broke a friends favorite scooter back in grade school.
What goes around comes around, so we think.....
But maybe Karma isn't such an external balancing of good and bad polarities as it is an internal washing of one's own integrity. The inner being that battles between selfish and non selfish acts all day long.
Events such as cutting a person off is not necessarily good or bad, that would be solely based on perspective. Begging the question, If a person cuts off another in traffic and the action causes an effect of spilling another person's coffee on themselves, but the first was trying to get to their ill mother in time with no thought of it and the second person conjures up a negative happening that should occur upon this abrasive driving......Who deserves the Karma?
The person who carried out the abhorrent action, or the person who entertained the negative thought. Both on a certain perspective could be considered an actionable cause that deserves a rightly effect.
I would have to ponder that Karma is mostly internal types of thinking that on most levels has an internal balance of suffering. A suffering that nicks at our subconscious, a picking away of sorts at the integrity of the soul.
In Buddhism they believe Karma is any act that contains a selfish conception. Even acts such as donating to a charity could be believed to be a selfish act. On some degree we take pride in actions such as these or a part of us takes pleasure in feeling better about who we are.
These types of acts cause a reinforcement of the selfish side of us, or as others call the ego side. With this we are determined to continue around these types of actions that are really just to raise the judgment of how we think of ourselves. And mostly only to ourselves.
So on some parallel facet we are causing these things to ourselves. Not necessarily because of a specific external action or event but because of how we internalize our self versions and thinking towards certain actions and events.
Does not the victim of a crime suffer continually because of the dwelling on events, even if they have no idea why someone might have committed them. And I outwardly ask, does not the person who committed negative actions suffer on some level internally because of their blatant disregard for an internal integrity of the soul.
I don't perceive that Karma is an external cause and action of events. But an internal battle with our true nature, a inner suffering through thoughts of who we think we are and what we prefer to be correct in the world.
Karma can definitely be a double edged sword I believe. Some very outward and aggressive acts may have a need for some universal effect taking place so a spirit can pay for the wrongs they have committed. But also an inward battle constantly going on inside ourselves.
A perpetual fight between in our subconscious of what and who is right. With a majority of that battle being with ourselves of selfless and selfish thinking. Knowing what is true to us and not just true about how we want to think of ourselves or how we might want others to think of us.
The Yin and Yang of life is always in play. A passionate balancing of ups and downs to play with all the universe and the events taking place. With Karma being the person in the chair of the roller coaster perceiving these bold events.
So I wonder, is there a way to get out of or end our Karma? If you do enough rights will you never again have to pay for wrongs? If so, does this mean we have to take account for, not only all our actions outwardly, but all the thoughts and opinions we create inwardly?
-RA BAR










