Karma, luck, fate, sheer coincidence

Leo

Leo

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how do you classify them?

just had a work experience where a colleague who I rarely interact with needed to check something I was working on, and then pointed out eight incorrect figures (turns out I worked from an outdated spreadsheet). it would not have been good if this incorrect information had been released publicly, so he essential saved my butt and that of the client.

selfishly, I'd like to think it was karma, a good thing that happened as a result of my being a decent person to others, but that seems to trivialize the spiritual element. karma should involve higher ideals, not some stupid work project.

I also think I was very lucky that this guy, who I rarely deal with, happened to get involved at all. but is that just sheer coincidence? or was it fate, always meant to happen, predestination?
 
luka

luka

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i always choose to go with the most exciting personally gratifying explanation. i never ever deflate. i think its self-abuse to use the boring explanation as if reality was inhernetly boring or as if there was a moral virtue in boring.
 
luka

luka

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there's nothing i hate more than people who try to impose a boring interpretation of events. they are evil sadists.
 
luka

luka

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its like how sceptics stop magic and paranormal activities from happening just becasue they are so boring. they cast a kind of field of boring around them that diasbles the abilities of psychics
 
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catalog

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i work in support as well and you sometimes do what you think is the simplest thing for someone (eg clear their browser cache) and they look at you like you've invented fire
 
pattycakes_

pattycakes_

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In Cosmic Trigger RAW explains that karma is a never ending cycle of mass stored negativity. The only way to stop it is by becoming compassionate, loving and forgiving. By storing negativity, you add to the mass, so more negative events occur. Not quite the usual do something bad, something bad is done to you mechanism most believe. Tough nut to crack, but it kind of makes sense when you think about it.
 
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catalog

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grapejuice blog ive been reading recently says the same, its about 137/731, how the one light source splits into kabbala points and all we've got to do is shine the light on each other
 
constant escape

constant escape

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pattycakes_ said:
In Cosmic Trigger RAW explains that karma is a never ending cycle of mass stored negativity. The only way to stop it is by becoming compassionate, loving and forgiving. By storing negativity, you add to the mass, so more negative events occur. Not quite the usual do something bad, something bad is done to you mechanism most believe. Tough nut to crack, but it kind of makes sense when you think about it.
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Hadn't heard it articulated like that before. Of course it depends on what your goals are, but I would argue that the only way out of karma involves, but might not be limited to, neutrality. Neutrality, rather than compassion and other such positives. As far as I gather, the positive is just as classifiable as suffering, so whether you are suffering with someone or suffering against them, you are still just agitating the waters and precluding them from being settled.

And I do think most of the stuff of dharma can be reframed so as to lead people away from the common, low-resolution conceptions of these things. I mean, you just did it yourself.

Huh, if karma can be framed as economic, as a network of exchanges of energy, how would entropy fit into it?
 
john eden

john eden

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Leo said:
how do you classify them?

just had a work experience where a colleague who I rarely interact with needed to check something I was working on, and then pointed out eight incorrect figures (turns out I worked from an outdated spreadsheet). it would not have been good if this incorrect information had been released publicly, so he essential saved my butt and that of the client.

selfishly, I'd like to think it was karma, a good thing that happened as a result of my being a decent person to others, but that seems to trivialize the spiritual element. karma should involve higher ideals, not some stupid work project.

I also think I was very lucky that this guy, who I rarely deal with, happened to get involved at all. but is that just sheer coincidence? or was it fate, always meant to happen, predestination?
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It's a bit of luck and a bit of karma.

If you were a complete shitbag and everyone hated you it is less likely that he would have taken the time to interact with you at that level.

I don't really believe in Karma but I'd say that if it operates on a huge cosmic scale then it would be very difficult to know if a tiny part of your day was as a result of it or not.
 
droid

droid

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Karma means action. The only kind of neutral action is unwilled action - breathing, sleeping etc. Any intentional act, wholesome or unwholesome contributes to karma and every intentional, wilful action must have its effect, so choosing to not act compassionately, as a willful act, has karmic consequences.
 
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