The Universal Moral Code
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"Every cause has an effect, and every action evokes a chain reaction, including an equivalent action that goes back to the doer of such action. The totality of what a person is, feels, and does, is the result of previously planted seeds. Then that person continues the chain by planting his or her own seeds. What people sow, they reap. If we sow harm to others, we will reap harm for ourselves. Any harm that comes back to us comes mechanically, not by somebody getting revenge necessarily. The law of Causality tells us that any and all actions become causes which have effects. Those effects also have effects, in a chain reaction. The whole universe is like a very complex row of dominoes. Eventually, what we do to others comes back to us.
This is not mysticism; it is physics! What I'm saying seems to be mysticism because the effects or reactions that I'm talking about are not immediate. They may take months, or years or decades or a lifetime to manifest. An example of an effect that is not seen right away is delayed onset muscle soreness. This is the pain and stiffness felt in muscles several hours to days after unaccustomed or strenuous exercise. The soreness is felt most strongly 24 to 72 hours after the exercise. If the delay for the muscle soreness to start were to become longer; let's say 6 months, we would not know why the soreness is there. The same would happen if our memories where extremely short. Let's say we forget the exercise we did by the end of the hour, and the next morning we wake up sore. It would seem mysticism to suggest exercise caused it. But it is not mysticism, it is physics! There are a lot of examples of delayed effects: eating junk, smoking, and practicing bad habits of most types. The negative effects on our lives may not be obvious for a long time".
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It is hard to know what to make of this thread tbh. It seems that some people have a strange idea of what "karma" means. Well, I say strange, I guess they just adhere to the vague westernized approximation of "karma", to wish I can only say why bother bringing in a foreign idea to fit your native view? Just use plain old English and say "those you do good reap the rewards", you don't need Eastern mysticism to express such a view.
That said I do see that there is a lot that can be relatable to Western religiosity in regard to the idea of "karma", but I would be using the term in a much more broader way myself fif I was to compare the differing religious ideas.
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If I were to use Henry Ford's way of speaking, I would say:
Whether you think you own yourself or think you don't, you’re right.
Whether you believe you, exclusively, have rights over your own life or not, you are right.
If you think only you have the right to determine your life and your destiny, or you think others have that right, or you think it is s mix of you and others who have that right, in any case you are right.
It's all good. Whatever you want for yourself or whatever you are more comfortable with is good for you. You make the rules in you (nobody else can because nobody else is in there, only you is in you).
I think you are probably right about the dangers of extreme ideologies. I think your heart needs to be in the right place. I think my heart is in the right place. I know I make mistakes, and I'm willing to suffer the consequences, and I believe that ending injustice, violence, cruelty, misery, disease, and all other types of suffering in all living beings is worth the risk.
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Words are most certainly important. They can change the world and they are dangerous if misused.
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Karma is misunderstood. Karma is the law of cause and effect, with a twist. To illustrate: let us suppose we take a hammer with one hand, and we strike our other hand with it as hard as we can. At that point we find out this action is the wrong action to take. We have caused ourselves harm. It is obvious we have done it to ourselves. That is immediate karma, cause and effect. Now, let's suppose we take the hammer and we strike others with it. We are empowered now. Others fear us. Others do what we want. Now we feel good instead of having a broken hand, but karma will get us back at some point in the future for the evil of our actions toward others. However, this is just an appearance because, in reality, we are all connected, in an energetic level, in a similar way our hand is connected to our brain (this is not obvious, but it is true). We are made of the same energy everybody else is made of. When we strike or harm others, we are really doing it to ourselves. When karma catches up to us and we start feeling the pain, we believe karma is doing it; but we are wrong. This time it is not obvious, but the pain we are feeling is a pain we caused to ourselves by harming others which are connected to us. There is no need to fear karma because we are in control of karma. If we do not cause ourselves harm by causing others harm, and we let go of hard feelings or guilt, we have just destroyed karma.
Listen to this article if you have the chance (re-assemble the url address).
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This is not to say that they are not related only that there is serious danger of making false equivalence between two completely separate historical traditions.
You reap what you sow is a Christian saying and "karma" is certainly a vaguely comparable idea, but I'd be hard pressed to say I know with any authority that they are the same thing based on the same mystical, mythological or moral themes. For one the "karmic" principle engages with the idea of reincarnation and points to pains suffered in this life being caused by a past life. Christianity doesn't hold to such ideas.
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The Truth I'm talking about is Reality. Reality is what it is. None of us know the full Truth. We only believe we know what are approximations of reality. We have ideas that might resemble Reality, the way things actually work, the Truth. Then we create labels, symbols, words, to represent the ideas, or group of ideas, we have regarding Reality. The word "karma" and the words "you reap what you sow" are nothing but labels, symbols that represent the ideas religions teach about an aspect of Reality, ideas that do not fully conform to what is or to true Reality. Neither karma, nor the christian equivalent of karma really exist. They are both lies, so the details of their doctrines do not really matter. My advice to everybody is: find the Truth; determine Reality for yourself, and do not rely on religions. They are lying and taking advantage of you.
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Basically you're asking us to ignore you. Seems like a curious approach.
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There is no such thing.
The nature of the Balance of the Perfection of What Is precludes such a silly and self-justifying notion!
Absolute morality leads logically to absolute intolerance.
-Michael Shermer (The Science of Good and Evil)
"Every kind of partial and transitory disequilibrium must perforce contribute towards the great equilibrium of the whole.." - Rene' Guenon
From a religious Perspective (and a dictionary), 'morality' is judging people/stuff as 'good' or 'bad/evil'!
This is exact manifestation of the stolen Fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil (Sin of Pride/judgment) in the Garden!
As a Xtian (or any other religion), we are warned against 'judging' others;
"Judge not lest you be judged!"
Such judgment (good/evil) is the sin of 'pride'!
'Pride' is the only sin (from which all others spring), yet the hypocrites flaunt their practices, joyfully, proudly, in the face of their god!
You are told that;
"If you judge, judge with righteous judgment!"
Yet goes on to say that;
"None are righteous, no not one!"
Judgment, as the sinful morality that you suggest, is a very personal thing among the sinful who do so judge 'others'!
"Perhaps it is the curvature of space that, like a funhouse mirror distorting our own reflection, we imagine strangers." - Mythopoeicon
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The code states what justice is. Justice is equality of rights, and in the treatment of, all living beings, without exceptions. No living being is capable of living righteously because of the nature of their bodies and minds. Conclusion is that life itself is unjust, unrighteous, wrong, and evil because the very nature of life prevents all living beings from living in a peaceful, fair, righteous way, a way that does not result in harm to any sentient being.
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