The nature of karma

[No essential nature]

Originally Posted by moseslmpg

Snoopy, what's so insulting about karma in past lives affecting this one?

Is it the sole effector? A particular problem as I see it is that other people have choice, the karma resulting from those choices may affect you. So unless all our actions are concomitently predetermined in accordance with karma, in which case there is no need to feel responsible for anything, we may exerience things that don't result from our karma (a sloppy surgeons knife resulting in dsability, for instance).

[No essential nature]

Originally Posted by Snoopy

I agree, Nen.

It's as sensible as saying the harvest has failed because we are being punished by God. Or in my case, the bread van's broken down.

Snoopy.

PS I think we're trapped in a sort of groundhog day loop from which we can only escape when we say EXACTLY the right thing.

Your turn.

Hmm, yes, loopy Snoopy. My post did post after all

I think its taht the karma is not attached to each of us, it does not belong to us. There is no-one for it to belong to. It is not that a shift of perspective will make all suffering clear as being a trick of the light - because we can act, take the dharmic path, and the path is, just as the suffering is. But there is no one who walks it. The way to do this is to realise where the suffering comes from, and how much of it need not exist - and that which does need to exist is not really suffering, but poignance and essentially bliss.