Relentless Karma and What to Do About It
Karma is a word that has a lot of charge for some people. I know a person who is adamant he doesn’t believe in karma. He says he’s looked into it for years and has figured out that it is all an illusion.
Karma is a word that has a lot of charge for some people. I know a person who is adamant he doesn’t believe in karma. He says he’s looked into it for years and has figured out that it is all an illusion.
In the normal course of life, the consequences of our actions and of our non-actions teach us responsibility, which then entails foreseeing those consequences. However, for many actions we cannot foresee their repercussions. Those situations can tempt us into irresponsible and wrong actions. For example, another driver is rude to me on the highway. Expecting no consequences, I make an obscene gesture at him. It appears to cost me nothing. Indeed it feels good, just, and righteous, a healthy release of anger and stress. But the truth lies deeper. Every intentional act and every intentional non-action when action is called for, create karma, known in the Christian tradition as sowing what you reap and in New Age circles as “what goes around comes around.”