The Logistics of Karma
“For the spirit of a human being arrives highly gifted.
By no means do we learn everything,
but bring it with us.”
F.W. Reimer
The Logistics of Karma
Karma in perspective and the five lessons toolkit.
Which is the most successful word exported from India? For me I think it is the word, Karma. Many may argue about Indian cuisine. I think they are probably wrong, Indian cuisine is superb, but the word Karma conquered the whole world.
Why did Karma become so successful? It did so because:
- It won a place in our heart.
- It resonated with us.
- It made sense.
Some further modest speculations
- To accept the concept of Karma we have to accept the existence of nonlocal consciousness.
- Most of us are blind both to our deeds and to our fate…
- Most of us incarnate to work out leftovers and unfinished business from previous incarnations.
- Some of us are born with hangovers from our previous incarnation.
The real problem is who is doing the book-keeping for our deeds? And where are the assets kept? Where is the treasury of Karma or Dharma located?
According to Hinduism and Buddhism Karma is the sum of a person’s actions in this and previous states of existence, viewed as deciding their fate in future existences.
Attention: Karma had been a very convenient principle on which the harshest ever social stratification system was built. The caste system. A lot of misuse has been done because of this term. So, all of us have to be very cautious when we use it.
Another question that arises is: What happens to all the knowledge, practice, skills, languages and experiences we acquire throughout our lifetime?
After the deep insights from the preceding articles of my elder colleagues there is not much that I can add to what Karma is for me. But I think that we could keep some lessons from it, some bullet type ideas that you can take back home with you.
Lesson #1
“One man’s pain could be another man’s gain”
When I was a student back in the early eighties the news announced the discovery of AIDS. Not long after that it was made clear that the HIV virus would only spread through blood and sexual intercourse. A fellow student of mine invested all the money he had (70,000 $) on purchasing shares of Durex. Not that long after this he was almost a millionaire. Was this Dharma? No, it was a very smart move. Actually, it was brilliant!
Had any of our readers invested a 100 $ bill in ZOOM meetings platform shares on March 2019 they would have made 78,000 $ by April 15 2019.
So let us revisit our phrase once more:
One man’s pain (AIDS/COVID-19) could be another man’s gain (Condoms/ Zoom Boom)
Lesson #2
“As you sow, so shall you reap”
Paul the Apostle
“Humankind has not woven the web of life.
We are but one thread within it.
Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.
All things are bound together.
All things connect.”
Chief Seattle 1854
“A picture is worth a thousand words”
Lesson #3
‘Don’t do unto others what you don’t want done unto you.’
Confucius
“Do unto others as you would have them do unto you”
Luke
Dannion Brinkley was struck by lightning back in 1975 when he was twenty-five years old. The thunder struck him as he was speaking on the phone. While the nurses of the ambulance were attempting to resuscitate him, he had a vivid NDE which he describes in his book, Saved by the Light. After he crossed a tunnel and he met with some “beings of light” he admits that his life review was not pleasant because he was faced with the “sickening reality that I had been an unpleasant person who was self-centred and mean.” During this panoramic review of his life, he understands how mean he was in his childhood and how he bullied his fellow students.
He then saw the death and destruction that had taken place in the world because of his actions. “We are all a link in the great chain of humanity,” said the Being of Light. “What you do has an effect on the links in the chain.”
When in the Vietnam war he was ordered to assassinate a Vietcong colonel. As he says, “I didn’t feel the pain that he must have felt. Instead, I felt his confusion at having his head blown off and sadness as he left his body and realized that he would never go home again. Then I felt the rest of the chain reaction- the sad feelings of his family when they realized they would be without their provider.”
After his life review was concluded he felt deep sorrow and shame. “I expected a rebuke, some kind of cosmic shaking of my soul. I had reviewed my life and what I had seen was a truly worthless person.” Instead of a rebuke though he received a mental message that love and compassion are the key to a life of fulfilment and soul prosperity.
Lesson #4
There is no such a thing as a shortcut to Karma.
Techniques that promise ‘clearance of karma’ and/or ‘karmic debt’ overabundant in seminars and workshops of self-help and New Age coaching throughout the globe, sound suspicious to my mind. No one can avoid the consequences of his actions.
Lesson #5
“Wear your white Belt.”
When Jigoro Kano the father of Judo was quite old and close to death, he called his students around him and he told them that he wanted to be buried in his white belt…
So, do not forget to wear your white belt when you are about to depart this mundane world…