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Originally Posted by GreenTea  Woa. Still laughing about the wack factor of this article. Steve, your warnings about the craziness were also in themselves hilarious to me. 
I have a question about the karma stuff, which is: What's the deal with the karma stuff??
"Then he showed me what looked like an energy meter that revealed a full positive karma supply. He suggested that I’d earned a lot of positive karma because of the work I’ve done with my blog. He seemed to be half-joking as he said this, as if he found my original question amusing."
You do mention "he seemed to be half joking", but for me this is the craziest sounding part of the whole article. Any clarifying thoughts? Do you believe in karma in this sense? (Recently I've been thinking that karma is past conditioning..??)
And thanks for your courage in posting this |
My intuitive self has always had a problem with the formal idea of Karma... It's a popular idea, but it seems to me like a complicated system for something much simpler. From my perspective, "karma" is completely internal to us and comes from our own inner conflict. Any time we do something that we are conflicted about, or don't truly believe is the "right" thing to do (perhaps not consciously and that's the problem?), that's negative energy and it's going to affect us until we understand it better and release that conflict.
Can you imagine what it would be like to live without conflict, to truly trust and believe in yourself and that what you're doing is the right thing? Would you escape karma, would it no longer apply? :-)
This seems much simpler to me than complicated systems of good and bad karma, the cycle of life and death, and so on. Of course it also seems easier said than done to simply believe in oneself...