Karma

karma

Pronunciation: 'kär-m& also 'k&r-
Function: noun
Etymology: Sanskrit karma fate, work
1 often capitalized : the force generated by a person's actions held in Hinduism and Buddhism to perpetuate transmigration and in its ethical consequences to determine the nature of the person's next existence.

Three times this morning this concept has surfaced in my interactions with people. While I also feel the number three is powerful on its own, I'll leave that path for another day. Karma. Does good beget good, evil beget evil? Maybe. I guess we'll see next time around.

In my life, I try to be a good person. I enjoy making people happy, and contrary to what a few people who've walked beside me for part of this trip through believe, Machiavelli got it wrong. The ends do not justify the means. The journey is as much a reward as the destination is. What goes around comes around. Do unto others as you would have them do unto you. You reap what you sow. It's everywhere. It's a Christian concept, it's Hindu, it's Buddist, it's Muslim, it's Jewish, it's Wiccan, it's everywhere.

So why is there so much hatred, so much anger, so much divisiveness in the name of religion? Because, folks, we don't practice what we preach. The ideas, the philosophies, the guidance of whatever we call god get twisted back on themselves to justify our beliefs in our personal, religious, ethnic, cultural superiority. "My god is THE god." "My colour is the better colour." "My way or (I'll bury you under) the highway."

Is it hopeless? Nope. Children become what they know. We must live like the people we want our children to become. Give. Do. Care. Please.