--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, turquoiseb <no_reply@...> wrote:
> > ...and don't the administration of the laws of Karma > > require 'guidance'? > > Not at all. In my view karma is pure physics -- every > action has an equal and opposite reaction -- "admin- > istered" on a purely physical level automatically as > a kind of Operating System for a universe that was > never created, and in fact is and always will be > eternal. Well, you espouse Eastern Philosophy very well, as they say, we are punished BY our sins, not FOR our sins. And, like you say, every action has an equal an opposite reaction (I wonder who devised that ingenious idea)? > Many people haven't really "thought through" karma. > Free will *has* to coexist with karma, or there would > be no possibility of ever changing. > > You do something in the past, and the reverberations > of that action affect you in the present. But they > don't *control* your present; they are merely an > influence on it. You could allow the samskaras from > the past to influence you, and just do the same old > same old again, but you don't have to. At any moment > you could "Just say no" and do something else. It's > the "something else" that allows for spiritual growth > and evolution and spiritual progress. Agreed....
