--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, akasha_108 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, akasha_108 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > wrote: > (snip) > > > > > What are your views on karma: > > > You asked for my views so I gave them to you. My first response to > your original post was hasty and flip but sometimes there is little > time and these things get dashed off in a hurry. > > > > > > > > > > Do you hold that karma does not exist? If so, do you have an > > > > alternative model of action? > > > > > > > I have always understood karma to mean literally "action". In my > > > view every action requires a desire and an intent of some sort, > and > > > although some actions may seem inconsequential in their impact, > even > > > a small action carries a small puff of desire and intent with it. > > > > > > So a karmic disease or accident or financial loss is desired? > > No, but whatever happens in life is our destiny created by our karma. > > > > > > > Do you think a liberated one has absolutely no karma returning > to > > > them in this life / body? > > > > > > > > > Not only that but I do not think that liberated ones even exist > on > > > earth unless they are an avatar. > > > > > > So there are no realized liberated ones walking the earth? > > > I would call that an avatar. > > > > > > > > > > > > When people talk of their experiences of "no-doer", what is > the > > > role > > > > of karma in that state? > > When people talk of their experiences of "no-doer" I do not think > that they are liberated. > > > > > Sorry I don't follow, your theory appears not based on any source > > other than speculation and your reasoning appears jumbled to me. > > That's fine if you do not follow what I am saying, we don't know > each other and our glossary is probably totally out of synch. It > doesn't matter, I wrote my sincere views on karma and I stand by > them. It appears that you are the one who jumbled my reasoning > through misinterpretation and as far as speculation is concerned; > it's all speculation. Everything on the linked website, what you > wrote and what I wrote, it's all speculation. Sometimes you just > have to say what you feel and forget the sources, after all the > sources are just other people saying what they feel. > > Rick Carlstrom
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