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Originally Posted by Plan9
No, that's hocus pocus bullshit with a squirt of sweaty regret on top. Magic and emotion... the ethereal unicorn farts of our psyches.
These are the lies we tell ourselves because we can't figure out why we have a hole in our heart and we need to believe in something.
It's not a case of half empty or half full... it's case of it just being there. That's the hard part of the whole thing. The lack of reason and explanation.
My inability to get over certain issues isn't karma, it's me being a psychological worry wart. I don't believe in balance or karma or Jesus or the eight vibrant colors of my Shakra. Justice is a concept that doesn't exist outside of the confines of textbooks and personal feelings. Healing is 50% acceptance and 50% forgetfulness. Additionally, I don't have regrets about some things and yet do about others. Can we pick and choose our magical beliefs or what? Am I allowed to hate my exwife and miss another partner? Am I allowed to be cool with killing flies but not spiders? I don't believe in karma.
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Karma is closer to the mark than your formula, wherever you got that from.
How's that forgetfulness working for you? I'll ask you again in 10 years, then 20, then 30....
You can choose to disbelieve in karma, but there's a problem with that: karma simply refers to our actions and their cause and effect. It refers to the psychological stock we take in these things.
You can choose to disbelieve in it, except it won't go away. You can try to forget, but things tend to come back.
The ironic thing about your response is that it seems nearly a confirmation of karmic influences, the problem is you either a) don't want to accept the parts of it you have difficulty with, or b) you don't fully understand what is meant by the thing we label "karma";
It's not hocus-pocus mystical forces. It's a religious/spiritual labeling of certain things that scientists/researchers/doctors label as something else.
It is what it is. We are what we do. Very auspicious. We should all meditate on that.