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Old 01-24-2005, 12:17 AM   #24 (permalink)
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I'm probably as close to Buddhist as one can be without technically being Buddhist (or maybe not ), but one aspect that I'm not too big on is karma. When I think of my good fortune, I try to avoid attributing it to anything, aside from whomever may be directly responsible for it (eg. my parents giving me food), but I can't help but get a feeling that it is somehow due to karma, then I automatically start arguing with myself on it being due to karma because I think that believing that I have good karma will jinx my karma and I'll turn out to have bad fortune, then I think it's silly, and so on until I become thouroughly confused and decide to just accept that I'm happy with what I have or just experienced, and leave it at that. Sometimes it's best not to overthink.
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