If only karma was real. We live in a world where evil thrives. Every now and then an evil fuck ‘gets what’s coming to them’ but the vast majority of them live long and very prosperous lives, not just unimpaired, but actively enriched by their evil. Through their life of luxury, they enjoy an obscenely long lifespan and eventually croak in some unspectacular way. Karma is a nice daydream, but that’s all it is.
Karma is real. Just because it isn’t instant doesn’t mean it isn’t. Karma is doing what “they” do to us, because they deserve it and we don’t. Retribution. Then they gain power and repeat the cycle. Karma is the opportunity to learn: if it’s wrong when someone does it to us, it’s wrong when we do it to them. “They” are “you.”
Dharma is stepping off the wheel and seeking justice - balance, equitably, harmony. Because when one person levels up, it inspires someone else to put forth effort; and when another chooses to devolve, that inspires others to devolve.
Re-education/rehabilitation, forgiveness, doing the work together is the path of dharma, mastering self first, and helping others to master themselves. Not doing it for them. Not having no clear and enforced boundaries. Truth is on a spectrum, too. That is, there is a tipping point where truth becomes lie. And retribution is that tipping point
Put another way: wisdom without compassion of brutality. Compassion without wisdom is folly.
Eta: This is the ignorance that leads to suffering that Buddha referenced. The necklace of skulls worn by Kali are the heads of ignorance she’s severed. Om Krim Kalima!
…I’m not really following, but I’m also exhausted and shouldn’t be anywhere near the internet right now.
I think we each might be understanding the word “karma” to mean something different. My understanding boils down to: do good to others, good things will happen to you; do bad to others, bad things will happen to you.
My observation is that the version I just described is fantasy. It’s not that it’s not instant, it’s that it’s completely absent. For every oppressor that meets a nasty end (feeding a confirmation bias to the existence of karma) there are dozens live their life of bliss only to die peacefully in their sleep of old age.
And I don’t believe in any afterlife, so I’m not going to count on some kind of ‘hell’ deliver the thusfar missing justice: they reached the finish line and that’s it. If karma - again as I understand it - was real, those fuckers would be much more motivated not to be evil, but here we are, completely surrounded by evil.
The wheel of karma continues to turn.
If only karma was real. We live in a world where evil thrives. Every now and then an evil fuck ‘gets what’s coming to them’ but the vast majority of them live long and very prosperous lives, not just unimpaired, but actively enriched by their evil. Through their life of luxury, they enjoy an obscenely long lifespan and eventually croak in some unspectacular way. Karma is a nice daydream, but that’s all it is.
Karma is real. Just because it isn’t instant doesn’t mean it isn’t. Karma is doing what “they” do to us, because they deserve it and we don’t. Retribution. Then they gain power and repeat the cycle. Karma is the opportunity to learn: if it’s wrong when someone does it to us, it’s wrong when we do it to them. “They” are “you.”
Dharma is stepping off the wheel and seeking justice - balance, equitably, harmony. Because when one person levels up, it inspires someone else to put forth effort; and when another chooses to devolve, that inspires others to devolve.
Re-education/rehabilitation, forgiveness, doing the work together is the path of dharma, mastering self first, and helping others to master themselves. Not doing it for them. Not having no clear and enforced boundaries. Truth is on a spectrum, too. That is, there is a tipping point where truth becomes lie. And retribution is that tipping point
Put another way: wisdom without compassion of brutality. Compassion without wisdom is folly.
Eta: This is the ignorance that leads to suffering that Buddha referenced. The necklace of skulls worn by Kali are the heads of ignorance she’s severed. Om Krim Kalima!
…I’m not really following, but I’m also exhausted and shouldn’t be anywhere near the internet right now.
I think we each might be understanding the word “karma” to mean something different. My understanding boils down to: do good to others, good things will happen to you; do bad to others, bad things will happen to you.
My observation is that the version I just described is fantasy. It’s not that it’s not instant, it’s that it’s completely absent. For every oppressor that meets a nasty end (feeding a confirmation bias to the existence of karma) there are dozens live their life of bliss only to die peacefully in their sleep of old age.
And I don’t believe in any afterlife, so I’m not going to count on some kind of ‘hell’ deliver the thusfar missing justice: they reached the finish line and that’s it. If karma - again as I understand it - was real, those fuckers would be much more motivated not to be evil, but here we are, completely surrounded by evil.
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You think this is karma? Even if he was guilty of heinous shit, he deserves to rot in obscurity.
Edit: to add an “if”
I posted a reply to the other person’s comment then accidentally hit delete rather than edit and had to repost it.