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What goes around comes around-justice-karma. Why do the scales always balance out? Maybe it's built directly into the individual & society? If someone believes in God, this would make sense. It would be another example of "intelligent design". If you believe in evolution, one could argue that these "safeguards" were built into us, to destroy those that threaten social stability by breaking the rules to excess, whether it's lying, stealing, violence, cheating, or whatever. Whatever the case, it seems this "justice" always seems to find you, if you live long enough, just like death finds all of us in enough time. If you're naive enough, you think you can beat it. If you're smart, you stay decent, and if you're not egotistical, you learn to face your evils and face up to who you are...to be a woman...to be a man. You cannot change if you can't face your own faults. And if you keep bleeding others, you will eventually bleed. When I was younger, I didn't always see this pattern. Sometimes I wondered why thieves and cheaters prosper. Sometimes I thought my own sins would wait until the next life, and I had enough time to make amends when I got older. When experience comes, many of us learn justice doesn't wait. It comes now and later, and the now is painful enough. There is no free lunch, free rides. We just think there is. |
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5/20/2009 5:06 pm |
life is certainly a trip - We go through periods of extended challenges, and seeming dire circles, "why' is a big mystery- especially when we try to live without doing any wrong to others, yet, the circles still seem to come, and many times be more devastating in more ways, and it seems to have absolutely no reason for being so.. Life is a trip !!
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5/20/2009 11:44 pm |
You cannot change if you can't face your own faults. And if you keep bleeding others, you will eventually bleed. I guess this is what karma is all about. As for why thieves and cheaters prosper, I have ever had the same wonders as yours before, but now I come to realize it does make sense. See, as a human being, we do both good and bad with/without intention, and each one of us has a bank of our own, which is made up of goods and evils. Each time we do something, the balance sheet changes, in which the balance can be incresed or decreased, it depends on what you do. Sometimes we see people who did bad things prosper, it's because their banks might still have a positive balance brought in from their last life, if they keeps doing evils, sooner or later the balance would turn negative. That is just the time for the price to be paid, maybe in their current life, maybe in their next life..... If a person believed in this, there'd be little chance for him/her to do evil, contrarily, he/she would self-examine his/her own thoughts, feelings, or behavior from time to time.
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5/21/2009 9:59 am |
The nature of scales is to seek balance. The universe is set up to balance itself out, else all would spiral into chaos. Then again, my scales have never balanced out. (At least not yet).
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5/22/2009 12:13 am |
...it seems this "justice" always seems to find you, if you live long enough, just like death finds all of us in enough time.....(I am referring to physical death). ...sometimes it takes time for the pattern to play out...but I believe it always does...until it does, we often think we are "lucky", but when it arrives, it seems it was just yesterday, an hour ago, 10 minutes ago that we could have changed coarse...and the chance to avoid plunging the ship into the rocks is lost. ...time is "elastic". It feels like it is slowest, when we are in our most intense moments of agony. It feels so short when everything is going well.
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5/22/2009 1:17 am |
time is "elastic". It feels like it is slowest, when we are in our most intense moments of agony. It feels so short when everything is going well. Exactly! That's why we all feel happiness moments are very short, while the moments of suffering are usually much longer.
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8/8/2009 5:05 pm |
lycer, You wrote you believe if people considered that the scales of karma would come back on them in this life or the next, then they would not likely do evil. That is a very Eastern idea. It is common in Budhism, though I'm not sure that is your source of belief. I would say there is another life, but it is in eternity, which is why it is so important we understand the consequences of our choices (good and bad), and to know the bad will lead us towards a bad place in eternity. But I would put forth another idea, common in Christianity/Judaism/Islam, which is that people are naturally driven to do wrong. We have this in all of us, and even the knowledge of what we are doing does not stop us all the time....there are those among us who don't even care when they know what they are doing is wrong, and they do it all the time....it is in all of us....some control it more than other, but it is the common darkness in the human soul.
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