04-03-2012, 11:29 PM
Plenum I've never quite grokked "karma".
The most headway I can make into the concept is to hone in on the ideas of inertia, motion, and movement as put forth in this statement of Ra's (already quoted in this thread)
Though when karma is identified in the life experience, it probably feels as personal as it gets, I envision it as an impersonal movement of imbalanced energy that, by virtue of its imbalance, stays in motion forever in search of balance, in search of that complementary other half which, once united, makes it whole.
Much as weather systems are forever in movement seeking balance between high and low pressure system, cold and warm fronts. The atmosphere is constantly shifting as it seeks a balance.
According to Ra, forgiveness is the principle mechanism (consciously invoked) which brings a halt to this undisciplined, unordered movement that is set in motion by consciously unloving action (i.e., "karma"). I interpret forgiveness to mean, among other possible good definitions, accepting the moment as it is, releasing recrimination, blame, judgment, and guilt for the past.
Recall the one section where Ra says that seeker seeks the one, and the one is to be sought by the self-accepting/self-aware entity. And resting in that balanced awareness between total perfection and APPARENT distortion, the entity opens itself to the universe, which it is?
I think that the vision which understands the total perfection and sees through the "apparent" distortion is enabled and made possible by forgiveness. The illusory distortions become increasingly transparent to the truth, which is that each aspect of the self and the other self is a perfect, albeit on the surface distorted, aspect of the One being.
Thus the entity rests/abides in that larger vision with the choiceless awareness that does not resist but accepts all things as the Creator, and thus does not engage the mechanisms of karma. The entity no longer chases one half of a duality which can only be transcended (karma stopped) by knowing, accepting, and merging with its inherent and implied other half.
My crude thoughts. Cheers to karma-free realizations. : ) GLB
The most headway I can make into the concept is to hone in on the ideas of inertia, motion, and movement as put forth in this statement of Ra's (already quoted in this thread)
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Our understanding of karma is that which may be called inertia. Those actions which are put into motion will continue using the ways of balancing until such time as the controlling or higher principle which you may liken unto your braking or stopping is invoked. This stoppage of the inertia of action may be called forgiveness. These two concepts are inseparable.
Though when karma is identified in the life experience, it probably feels as personal as it gets, I envision it as an impersonal movement of imbalanced energy that, by virtue of its imbalance, stays in motion forever in search of balance, in search of that complementary other half which, once united, makes it whole.
Much as weather systems are forever in movement seeking balance between high and low pressure system, cold and warm fronts. The atmosphere is constantly shifting as it seeks a balance.
According to Ra, forgiveness is the principle mechanism (consciously invoked) which brings a halt to this undisciplined, unordered movement that is set in motion by consciously unloving action (i.e., "karma"). I interpret forgiveness to mean, among other possible good definitions, accepting the moment as it is, releasing recrimination, blame, judgment, and guilt for the past.
Recall the one section where Ra says that seeker seeks the one, and the one is to be sought by the self-accepting/self-aware entity. And resting in that balanced awareness between total perfection and APPARENT distortion, the entity opens itself to the universe, which it is?
I think that the vision which understands the total perfection and sees through the "apparent" distortion is enabled and made possible by forgiveness. The illusory distortions become increasingly transparent to the truth, which is that each aspect of the self and the other self is a perfect, albeit on the surface distorted, aspect of the One being.
Thus the entity rests/abides in that larger vision with the choiceless awareness that does not resist but accepts all things as the Creator, and thus does not engage the mechanisms of karma. The entity no longer chases one half of a duality which can only be transcended (karma stopped) by knowing, accepting, and merging with its inherent and implied other half.
My crude thoughts. Cheers to karma-free realizations. : ) GLB
Explanation by the tongue makes most things clear, but love unexplained is clearer. - Rumi
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