To my fellow Crazy Sisters (and anyone else reading this who might have some insight):
This is not a joke. I swear it's not. It's horribly ironic, considering my recent post on apologies and Karma, but I have a question. Do you think once a person pays their Karmic debt, it's over and done with? Or is it like too many laxatives, and it keeps paying you back, running and running, and making you miserable, even after you have been sufficiently punished? I just realized that I did something six years ago--unknowingly, I swear; no malice, no forethought, nothing--and Karma/Fate has paid me back tenfold. Do you think it's over now? Does it count toward good Karma if I have finally become enlightened and realized that it's bad Karma biting me in the butt? Will bad Karma now leave me alone, because I have repented? What if it's all those mirrors I broke as a kid? What if it's not Karma and it's just all bad luck? No, I can't say that, or bad Karma might come back after me! I need to know I'm going into surgery next month with a clean Karmic slate. Should I go to confession? Or is it enough that I've confessed my wrong-doing and accepted my cosmic punishment? And does it count that I am really, really sorry? Not sorry because I'm being punished, but sorry because of my unwitting role in something bad that happened six years ago. Unwittingly or not, it still happened. Yikes! Help!
Thursday, April 06, 2006
Wanted: Squeaky Clean Soul
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I'm sure that Karma is all about balance, cause and effect--and that sort of thing--but suffering and death is not always a "deserved" experience. Also, there's a difference between a mistake and malice. Example: someone who takes money that does not belong to him/her to feed or shelter family makes a mistake. A big mistake, no doubt, and not without consequences. But, someone who steals for greed or malice causes greater unbalance and should have different consequences than the other thief. That's what I believe.
But I also believe and question and consider other things, too. Maybe we agree before this life to accept responsibility for actions done during it, or maybe we ask for "credit" and overspend. When's the payback? How? Possibly with interest? These things, of course, contradict the ONE life belief. It's a tricky thing to believe in both.
That's why we believe in the Force. So, stop sprinkling Bite-Your-Butt-Mustard on your rump, and Karma will stop chopping. Really.
Bite-Your-Butt-Mustard...I think this blog just got a little crazier...
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