karma

^^^^good - we do try to be entertaining to those that drop by occasionally

LMAO LMAO LMAO LMAO

Gee, I'd apologize for stirring up the pot, but if it wasn't this pot I'm sure it would have been another... Oh well, real world kama to all, even those who need a virtual soapbox to look down their bifocals on those of us who find it amusing to create good vibes with our virtual karma.......I've done many worse things with a computer keyboard in my "real" job......

And you certainly have not missed your chance, my silly little friend. Much of the pre-discussed blue-in-the-face belly laughter comes from hearing absurdities like defending shit like incubus.

we'll see how long the fun lasts this time around

You rock knox!

Or vwaugh.....

wow - that was just like - well I don't know - deserving of some more karma

I think we all feel the spark that you are speaking of

thanks goddess

see what i mean, thats karma at its best right there

you dont seek it, and it comes to you naturally

ive been getting into Taoism lately and today i stumbled on some passages about karma and i thought i would share


In this endless and merciless
cycle of suffering,
the law of cause and effect
reigns supreme
and without respite
over everything;
Karma towers over all,
blocking out the sun,
yet its shadow does not fall
on the person walking with Tao.

(The Tao is Tao, 90)
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The person in harmony with the Tao has no fear of karma, and lives as a truly free person. Rules and laws have ceased to matter for him, for wisdom and compassion have become his guides, and they have liberated him from creating more negative karma.
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Karma is the accumulated force of choice. It is not part of a punishment and reward system for good and bad behavior. The Tao is all things—good and evil, creation and destruction, birth and death, beauty and ugliness. For this reason, it does not favor a particular good or bad. Humans, on the other hand, benefit by having a world that is good, and function better under good than they do evil. It is for this reason that the world is benefited at the level of the general population by religions such as Buddhism.

There are three poles of Karma: A Positive pole, A Neutral Pole, A Negative pole. For simplicity’s sake, we’ll call positive, Good; neutral, Neutral; and negative, Evil.

Karma is accumulated by making choices that fit within a pole. If you want to accumulate positive karma, then you do positive things, and those positive things add up together to form positive karma. You gradually climb up the positive pole, and the higher you climb, the more power that you have.

If you are trying to accumulate positive karma, and make a negative choice, you subtract this negative from your positive karma, and so lose power. If the choice is sufficiently negative, you could end up spending all your Karma or even shifting to the negative pole.

It is equally possible to accumulate negative Karma, and acquire tremendous power. However, when an evil person does something positive, that person loses Karma as well!

Taoism (i.e. methods of human practice) favors the accumulation of Positive or Neutral in Karma. Historically, those adepts that have pursued great evil have been killed to avoid creating a world that would be ultimately detrimental to human survival.

Karma is important, because it gives your choices the ability to be successful. For the most part, when we are powerless to choose, we become unable to manage our selves in the big three human activities. This shortcoming produces unhappiness.

Karma makes enlightenment more likely, but is not a requirement to achieve enlightenment. Karma is also not part of reward system that will ultimately lead to enlightenment.

You can only give Karma once an hour, I believe. And to give Karma you click "exalt". And smiting is taking Karma from some one for an obnoxious remard etc...But some do it because you dont like your opinion. Dont know why.
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