I've been exploring this in a couple articles I've been writing, one admittedly was more blog rant after fighting with a coworker over her skewed version of karma and law of attraction. I often look at karma as just a cause and effect law on the physical plane we live on, as I've come to the idea that perhaps all souls do not originate from the same plane so if one originates on one that is acausal it may not be subject to the ramifications of spiritual karma. Or another theory I've been playing with for many years, that karma was merely guilt creating a self-fulfilling prophecy (both of these views are from experiences and studying different paradigms, testing has not yet proved one way or another as I am not yet dead lol). Another point of ponder I just remembered upon the re-read, many who don't follow karmic laws say they do so because they don't follow the dharma.
The following are a couple of snips I find amusing out of my articles addressing karma=balance/punishment/reward claims:
"I find that karma really only applies to the physical world around us or self punishment (guilt). If I go and steal my best friend's husband, I should expect that the effect of my action will be losing my friend. This is something on a base psychological/social level, not the Universe smacking me and saying bad. I followed bad advice on "healthy eating" without doing research, now paying for it with a triggered immune disease, Universe getting me for being bad? No my own ignorance of my genetics and how the veg/grains worked against it. If I over harvest off of a plant or not tend to it properly for it's species, it will die."
"I have an analogy I like to use in arguments with people for karma and the three-fold-law that deals with balance. Think of yourself as a scale. If you do something "good" or "bad" you place an egg in the appropriate basket. If you do good and the force you see as a deity puts an equal egg into your basket (or 3, 10 or however many for whichever law you believe), eventually the basket will tip in an act to balance itself and you'll have a mess of cracked eggs."
As I write this with a bowl of shisha and pondering my belief that true balance lies within practicing "light", "dark" and "necro" combined, I come up with an eloquent way to put it.... to be harmonious with something that's in a constant state of flux with life/death cycles one must emulate them within oneself and one's practice. Perhaps this is my draw to working with all aspects, or perhaps it's a paradigm that makes sense in current stage of my life. Then again perception of reality is really based on cognitive mapping so in the end it may all just be a hogwash of illusions created by the mind to punish, enslave or justify actions.
In the meantime I strive to live by the three elder laws: no guilt, no doubt, no fear. The no fear is a little harder than the other two, still have a few residual fears to shed. They are not as prominent as they were, but still there lurking around.
-=Ex Ignorantia Ad Sapientiam; E Luce Ad Tenebras=-
~Khaotyk Artwerx (khaotyk-artwerx.tk)
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