Karma -- Thoughts?

[Boyd]

I always think of it as a set of scales.. such as you see in front of the supreme court

Ok, so imagine some Weisenheimer dumped a brick into the negative side.. and has teeny tiny pebbles that have to be earned to toss in the positive side.. Imagine always seeing that scale in your mind and always imagining what it takes to break even

Little victories are what I call them. Every time a kid opens up, a spontaneous hug, moving out on their own etc.. these are the things I love and live for. dd19 is on her second semester of college and is getting a place with her BF.. not sure if this is a win or a loss, but she's happy so I'm happy

 

[ZooMummzy]

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I really like that analogy!

 

[I have WHAT in my yard?]

Argued with an economist today. An exercise in futility if ever there was one.

The argument and this thread got me to thinking about how alike religion and economics actually are......

Led to a strange path but I cannot think of who the audience for such musings would be.

 

[Organics North]

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I like that analogy.. Lifes attempt to balance the scales..

ON

 

[CoyoteMagic]

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Ok, now I feel like a Who from Whoville setting on a clover blossom being held in Horton's trunk!!

 

[welsummerchicks]

SPEAKING OF BAALANCE -

Some Buddhist sects believe in boddhisatvas. The boddhisatva has completed all his lives and risen to the highest spiritual plane, is now qualified to go be with God, but decides not to, to stay on earth and keep trying to raise the spiritual level of all beings until there is a point in time when the balance shifts enough that the entire universe and all its beings become enlightened.

Normally, it just takes a small percentage of spiritual people to keep the universe in balance and keep the earth from wobbling off its axis and spnning into destruction. Say about 5 percent or less. So not everyone has to be enlightened, spiritual, etc to just keep things as they are.

 

[Organics North]

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Ok, now I feel like a Who from Whoville setting on a clover blossom being held in Horton's trunk!!

ha... Revenge for putting that "happy days" theme song in my head for two days...

I have WHAT in my yard? :

Argued with an economist today. An exercise in futility if ever there was one.
The argument and this thread got me to thinking about how alike religion and economics actually are......
Led to a strange path but I cannot think of who the audience for such musings would be.

Wow this is a bit like deja vu. I do recall having that "realization" myself some years back. In my corporate years I tended to collide with all the different CFO's that came and went. Lucky the President believed in closing your eyes and just jumping some times (ie..faith)
I would not say "like religion" but more like some of the doctrine and dogma that consumed religions in general. What fascinates me is if faith can truly coexist with doctrine and dogma..
That would be a fun conversation..........One can draw some interesting hypothesis from the comparison and society at large....


ON​

 

[Organics North]

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That sounds nice to me...

ON

 

[sourland]

At times I wish that there were a way to speed up or direct Karma. On second thought, that would be anti-Karma wouldn't it?

 

[mom'sfolly]

I think the same Buddhists would argue folks like Jesus Christ, Muhammad, Buha'u'llah, etc were boddhisatvas; beings who forsake being with god to help all of mankind.