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Topic: Karmic Retribution and Reward
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rajji Knowflake Posts: 1171 From: Registered: Jan 2011
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posted September 17, 2011 01:59 AM
Karma, be it wholesome or unwholesome, is modified by the conditions under which the actions are performed. In other words, a wholesome or unwholesome action may be more or less strong depending upon the conditions under which it is done. The conditions which determine the weight or strength of karma may be divided into those which refer to the subject - the doer of the action - and those which refer to the object - the being to whom the action is done. So the conditions that determine the weight of karma apply to the subject and object of the action. Specifically, if we take the example of killing, in order for the act of killing to have its complete and unmitigated power, five conditions must be present - a living being, the awareness of the existence of a living being, the intention to kill the living being, the effort or action of killing the living being, and the consequent death of the living being. Here too, we can see the subjective and the objective conditions. The subjective conditions are the awareness of the living being, the intention to kill and the action of killing. The objective conditions are the presence of the living being and the consequent death of the living being. Similarly, there are five conditions that modify the weight of karma and they are persistent, repeated action; action done with great intention and determination; action done without regret; action done towards those who possess extraordinary qualities; and action done towards those who have benefited one in the past. Here too there are subjective and objective conditions. The subjective conditions are persistent action; action done with intention; and action done without regret. If one does an unwholesome action again and again with great intention and without regret, the weight of the action will be enhanced. The objective conditions are the quality of the object to whom actions are done and the nature of the relationship. In other words, if one does a wholesome or unwholesome action towards living beings who possess extraordinary qualities such as the arhats, or the Buddha, the wholesome or unwholesome action done will have greater weight. Finally the power of wholesome or unwholesome action done towards those who have benefited one in the past, such as one’s parents, teachers and friends, will be greater. The objective and subjective conditions together determine the weight of karma. This is important because understanding this will help us to understand that karma is not simply a matter of black and white, or good and bad. Karma is moral action and moral responsibility.
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rajji Knowflake Posts: 1171 From: Registered: Jan 2011
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posted September 17, 2011 02:03 AM
The effects of karma may be evident either in the short term or in the long term. Traditionally we divide karma into three varieties related to the amount of time that is required for the effects of these actions to manifest themselves. Karma can either manifest its effects in this very life or in the next life or only after several lives. When karma manifests its effects in this life, we can see the fruit of karma within a relatively short length of time. This variety of karma is easily verifiable by any of us.For instance, when Maudgalyayana was beaten to death by bandits, the Buddha was able to tell that this event was the effect of something Maudgalyayana had done in a previous life when he had taken his aged parents to the forest and having beaten them to death, had then reported that they had been killed by bandits. The effect of this unwholesome action done many lives before was manifested only in his last life. At death we have to leave everything behind - our property and our loved ones, but our karma will accompany us like a shadow. The Buddha has said that nowhere on earth or in heaven can one escape one’s karma. IP: Logged |
rajji Knowflake Posts: 1171 From: Registered: Jan 2011
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posted September 17, 2011 02:04 AM
the two varieties of karma, wholesome and unwholesome karma, we should mention neutral or ineffective karma. Neutral karma is karma that has no moral consequence either because the very nature of the action is such as to have no moral consequence or because it is done involuntarily and unintentionally. For example, sleeping, walking, breathing, eating, handicraft and so forth in themselves have no moral consequence. Similarly, unintentional action is ineffective karma. In other words, if one accidentally steps on an insect, being unconscious of its existence, this also constitutes neutral karma because there is no intention - the intentional element is not there.The benefits of understanding the Law of Karma are that this understanding discourages one from per-forming unwholesome actions which have suffering as their fruit. Once we understand that in our own life every action will have a similar and equal reaction, once we understand that we will experience the effect of that action, wholesome or unwholesome, we will refrain from unwholesome behavior, not wanting to experience the effects of these unwholesome actions. And similarly, understanding that wholesome actions have happiness as their fruit, we will cultivate these wholesome actions. That is the end of buddhist version http://www.buddhanet.net/fundbud9.htm IP: Logged |
iQ Moderator Posts: 3044 From: Chennai, India Registered: Apr 2009
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posted September 17, 2011 04:56 AM
EMitres, MBlake and Rajji, Thanks for broadening the points!I do not know the exact answers to my musings. Tantriks assert that we share the blame for saving someone without permission, who then goes on to commit crime. According to them, we share a little blame when we are requested for help. I think of the story of Moses. He helped a man who requested help and that man later kills an Egyptian, and Moses has to flee Egypt and live in exile for more than 7 years [Saturn square ]. But had he not gone in exile, he would not have been able to liberate the Hebrews. This is the multidimensional aspect. SUferring for one bad karma led to earning so much positive karma that he had to get enlightenment [Burning Bush = Kundalini Rise] The Buddhist examples were very good. Many of us think we are perfect and do not deserve anything negative in this life because we have been good but I have recalled doing heinous crimes hundreds of years ago. After basic Kundalini effect in me, every harsh experience gets followed up by a showcase of the negative deeds that merited the experience. I can only say that God is Most Kind. Which is why continuing to release unknown faults, seeking forgiveness of others from a Higher Self level, forgiving all who hurt in the past and even forgiving oneself are important to ensure the hidden Pendulums are stilled from hitting us. Compassion for Self is also very important. There will come a time when we have to Merge our previous lifelines to further Ascend. If one of that life streams is of a Psychopath, and all those experiences get merged, will we be able to stay sane? This is why premature Kundalini Rise is dangerous. Most of us will go insane if we know that we had been psychopaths or tyrants in another lifestream. How many can do a "Jason Bourne" and confess to a person with full regret that he was the killer of her parents after getting awareness of his role as an assassin? Releasing karmic debts will hopefully get us to that level of confession and intent to promote genuine healing. IP: Logged |
Mblake81 Knowflake Posts: 1759 From: Registered: Aug 2010
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posted September 18, 2011 06:12 AM
quote: Originally posted by iQ: Tantriks assert that we share the blame for saving someone without permission, who then goes on to commit crime. According to them, we share a little blame when we are requested for help.
Dirty hands can be washed later. IP: Logged |
abcd efg Knowflake Posts: 1025 From: India Registered: Mar 2011
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posted September 18, 2011 10:01 AM
@ MBlake . ("Dirty hands can be washed later") You are impossible. LOL Anyone, specially IQ:
I read somewhere that- The degree of 29 degrees Scorpio is the most karmic degree in the entire zodiac. Can you explain this please. I am terribly curious to know. I posted it here because this is a karma thread. IP: Logged |
LEXX Moderator Posts: 7470 From: Still out looking for Schrodinger's cat.......& LEXIGRAMMING.♥.. is my Passion! Registered: Apr 2009
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posted September 18, 2011 12:16 PM
quote: Originally posted by iQ: EMitres, MBlake and Rajji, Thanks for broadening the points!I do not know the exact answers to my musings. Tantriks assert that we share the blame for saving someone without permission, who then goes on to commit crime. According to them, we share a little blame when we are requested for help. I think of the story of Moses. He helped a man who requested help and that man later kills an Egyptian, and Moses has to flee Egypt and live in exile for more than 7 years [Saturn square ]. But had he not gone in exile, he would not have been able to liberate the Hebrews.
Moses killed the Egyptian. And Moses fled Egypt. As for liberating/leading his people, he led them on to murder rape and pillage taking whatever they wanted and most of the murders even of babies, was done AFTER the "Thou Shalt Not Kill". And his people were moochers eating up the food of the Egyptians. Moses was one of the evilest men in those tales. Evil Moses: quote: Moses' Mass Murder"Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the LORD in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the LORD. Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him. But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves." (Numbers 31:16-18) Comment Moses commands the murder of approximately 100,000 young males and, roughly, 68,000 helpless women. Consider women and children of your own family: No matter how sick they may lay, or how they may go against a religion, how would you feel if a man named Moses, claiming to speak for God, sent men into your house and hacked to pieces the women and male children? Also, how would you react if they spotted a female child, dragged her off with them to do as they please with her? Note that these innocent virgins served for their own sexual pleasures. Midian, the land of the Midianites, did not reside in an area regarded as a natural enemy of Israel for centuries, and in fact lay hundreds of miles away from the Israelite encampment. Moses, himself, had lived in Midian as fugitive after committing his first murder. In short, Midian presented no threat to God's "Chosen People."
http://www.nobeliefs.com/DarkBible/darkbible3.htm I find it strange how folks paint that evil man as a good man.  IP: Logged |
LEXX Moderator Posts: 7470 From: Still out looking for Schrodinger's cat.......& LEXIGRAMMING.♥.. is my Passion! Registered: Apr 2009
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posted September 18, 2011 12:33 PM
Should this be moved to Divine Diversities? ------------------ ~I remember, therefore I am immortal~LEXX ~The present time is theirs, but the future is mine.~Никола Тесла }><}}('>~
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Mblake81 Knowflake Posts: 1759 From: Registered: Aug 2010
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posted September 18, 2011 01:42 PM
quote: Originally posted by abcd efg: @ MBlake . ("Dirty hands can be washed later") You are impossible. LOL
If the intent was goodness, the dirt will wash off later. If the intent was something else, it may stick. Just so you know. IP: Logged |
iQ Moderator Posts: 3044 From: Chennai, India Registered: Apr 2009
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posted September 19, 2011 03:38 AM
Hi Lexx, We should move the discussion on Moses to "Divine Diversities".There is no doubt about the suffering of the Hebrews and others pillaged by them after liberation from Pharoah but there is a powerful alternate theory about why Moses botched the job after initial success, and later made amends to an extent. There is a relationship to Karma too because the question that will arise is whether a Man possessed of a dark Entity outside the Earth's Karmic Fence can be blamed in entirety. The Entity that kept asking for blood.... and ensured that the Hebrews created enormous karmic debts for themselves. And could have even inspired Pharoah to be a tyrant so that a "need" for liberation arises through a ritual to attract this Entity into Earth's Auric Field?
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abcd efg Knowflake Posts: 1025 From: India Registered: Mar 2011
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posted September 19, 2011 12:49 PM
I think IQ hasn't noticed. IQ could you pl help on this one? I posted a question above i.e. 29 deg Sun in Scorpio is the most karmic degree in the entire zodiac, i learnt. Why is it so can u pl tell?IP: Logged |
LEXX Moderator Posts: 7470 From: Still out looking for Schrodinger's cat.......& LEXIGRAMMING.♥.. is my Passion! Registered: Apr 2009
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posted September 19, 2011 04:36 PM
quote: Originally posted by iQ: Hi Lexx, We should move the discussion on Moses to "Divine Diversities".
Will do so. And since this about Karmic issues also, am moving a copy to Universal codes also. quote: Originally posted by iQ:
There is no doubt about the suffering of the Hebrews and others pillaged by them after liberation from Pharoah but there is a powerful alternate theory about why Moses botched the job after initial success, and later made amends to an extent.There is a relationship to Karma too because the question that will arise is whether a Man possessed of a dark Entity outside the Earth's Karmic Fence can be blamed in entirety. The Entity that kept asking for blood.... and ensured that the Hebrews created enormous karmic debts for themselves.
Recovering from mini-stroke so to save retyping am copy cutting pasting from an old threads of mine for my reply on how Pharaoh was not a bad guy til the evil false god of The Eden Zoo got involved. Pharaoh never was a bad guy, it was the evil from their false god overlaying Pharaoh. quote: Originally posted by iQ:
And could have even inspired Pharoah to be a tyrant so that a "need" for liberation arises through a ritual to attract this Entity into Earth's Auric Field?
Yes, many times their false god created enemies for the Hebrew, and or they just made shite up so they'd have an excuse to rape murder pillage. LORD God of Genesis 2 is good? quote: Exodus Chapter 3 3:2 And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.
Seems rather hellish hellspawn devil like to me. Then this contradiction..Lord hardens Pharaoh's heart...then wants revenge for what he did?
quote: Exodus Chapter 4 4:21 And the LORD said unto Moses, When thou goest to return into Egypt, see that thou do all those wonders before Pharaoh, which I have put in thine hand: but I will harden his heart, that he shall not let the people go. Exodus Chapter 7 7:13 And he (LORD God)hardened Pharaoh's heart, that he hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had said. 7:14 And the LORD said unto Moses, Pharaoh's heart is hardened, he refuseth to let the people go.
Now does that sound weird to anyone else?I could go on..where this "good" god hisses for the flies, admits to creating evil and darkness, appears in black smoke, loves the smell of burnt flesh.... Makes all his prophets be liars, even admits to making them be liars.... so many insane contradictions, so much bloodshed and evil done supposedly by command of this good god and his good angels. Why do few bother to see this? Are they skipping those bits or what? He favorite servants and the patriarchs and kings he loved...were murderers, adulterers, drunkards, mass murderers, those in incestuous relationships,...and the list goes on....like AFTER the "thou shalt not kill...this god sends his favorites out to do genocidal mass murdering even of babies. .....and slavery, rape and pillage, tortures galore....and this is good? Lucifer had no part in those bloody sprees condoned and ordered by the so called LORD.  More examples: quote: 1 SAMUEL16:14 But the Spirit of the LORD departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the LORD troubled him. 16:15 And Saul's servants said unto him, Behold now, an evil spirit from God troubleth thee. 16:16 Let our lord now command thy servants, which are before thee, to seek out a man, who is a cunning player on an harp: and it shall come to pass, when the evil spirit from God is upon thee, that he shall play with his hand, and thou shalt be well. 23 And it came to pass, when the evil spirit from God was upon Saul, that David took an harp, and played with his hand: so Saul was refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him.
Repeating my previous post here also as it has to do with Moses and his murder sprees. quote: Originally posted by iQ: EMitres, MBlake and Rajji, Thanks for broadening the points!I do not know the exact answers to my musings. Tantriks assert that we share the blame for saving someone without permission, who then goes on to commit crime. According to them, we share a little blame when we are requested for help. I think of the story of Moses. He helped a man who requested help and that man later kills an Egyptian, and Moses has to flee Egypt and live in exile for more than 7 years [Saturn square ]. But had he not gone in exile, he would not have been able to liberate the Hebrews.
Moses killed the Egyptian. And Moses fled Egypt. As for liberating/leading his people, he led them on to murder rape and pillage taking whatever they wanted and most of the murders even of babies, was done AFTER the "Thou Shalt Not Kill". And his people were moochers eating up the food of the Egyptians. Moses was one of the evilest men in those tales. Evil Moses: quote: Moses' Mass Murder"Behold, these caused the children of Israel, through the counsel of Balaam, to commit trespass against the LORD in the matter of Peor, and there was a plague among the congregation of the LORD. Now therefore kill every male among the little ones, and kill every woman that hath known man by lying with him. But all the women children, that have not known a man by lying with him, keep alive for yourselves." (Numbers 31:16-18) Comment Moses commands the murder of approximately 100,000 young males and, roughly, 68,000 helpless women. Consider women and children of your own family: No matter how sick they may lay, or how they may go against a religion, how would you feel if a man named Moses, claiming to speak for God, sent men into your house and hacked to pieces the women and male children? Also, how would you react if they spotted a female child, dragged her off with them to do as they please with her? Note that these innocent virgins served for their own sexual pleasures. Midian, the land of the Midianites, did not reside in an area regarded as a natural enemy of Israel for centuries, and in fact lay hundreds of miles away from the Israelite encampment. Moses, himself, had lived in Midian as fugitive after committing his first murder. In short, Midian presented no threat to God's "Chosen People."
http://www.nobeliefs.com/DarkBible/darkbible3.htm I find it strange how folks paint that evil man Moses as a good man, and his false god of the second creation story as good.  ------------------ ~I remember, therefore I am immortal~LEXX ~The present time is theirs, but the future is mine.~Никола Тесла }><}}('>~ IP: Logged |
LEXX Moderator Posts: 7470 From: Still out looking for Schrodinger's cat.......& LEXIGRAMMING.♥.. is my Passion! Registered: Apr 2009
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posted September 19, 2011 05:43 PM
quote: Originally posted by iQ: Hi Lexx, We should move the discussion on Moses to "Divine Diversities".
Will do so. And since this about Karmic issues also, am moving a copy to Universal codes too. The somewhat deific aspects and religious tone on the subject of the so called Lords of Karma also makes it a topic for Divine Diversities.IP: Logged | |