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   From: meltdarok@aol.com   
      
   Dirk Bruere at NeoPax wrote:   
   > Meltdarok wrote:   
   >> Dirk Bruere at NeoPax wrote:   
   >>> Tom wrote:   
   >>>> "Dirk Bruere at NeoPax"  wrote in message   
   >>>> news:4m41esF4dn4rU1@individual.net...   
   >>>>> hilltopper6509@yahoo.com wrote:   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> It's someone who steals something they think is Karma but is really   
   >>>>> something entirely different (if it exists at all).   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> Karma is simply the law of cause and effect.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> Maybe that's something that someone thinks is karma but it's really   
   >>>> something entirely different.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> How about this version?  Karma is the action you believe you are   
   >>>> obliged to perform.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> If you have done something you believe to be bad, you may feel   
   >>>> obliged to do something that atones for it.  If you do something   
   >>>> good, you may feel that you are entitled to act in some rewarding   
   >>>> way.  If some unfortunate thing happens to you, you may want to   
   >>>> consider it atonement for something you did that you believe to have   
   >>>> been bad.  If some fortunate thing happens to you, you may want to   
   >>>> consider it a reward for behavior you believe to be good.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> It really has nothing to do with any force or sentience outside   
   >>>> yourself. Karma is a product of self-consciousness.  Beyond the   
   >>>> self, it has no meaning at all.   
   >>>   
   >>> Nothing has any meaning beyond the self.   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> What an utterly, utterly geocentric statement.   
   >>   
   >> Like Alan Watts said, *nothing* can appear for   
   >> *however* short a time *without* being mutually   
   >> interdependent with the combined Whole.   
   >   
   > In Quantum Mechanics it's called the Uncertainty Principle, in this   
   > instance between time and energy.   
   >   
      
   When you reflect on your own consciousness, do you prefer to ignore the   
   greater Whole in wondering about its (your consciousness) origin?   
      
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   > Dirk   
   >   
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