By Reginald Ray
Reginald A. Ray examines the doctrine of karma, one of the most important yet most misunderstood of all Buddhist teachings.
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CLEAR ALL
I would like to talk about the Buddhist concept of karma. It is a big topic, and you could spend years talking about it, and decades arguing about it.
Once we are duly acquainted with the inherent dangers fate presents us, there are three ways we can decide not to live life on life’s terms.
The average person finds the free will vs. determinism debate totally academic—in everyday life we all proceed as if our choices and decisions are our own.
I believe we are in full control of our choices and that our actions, in response to what fate offers us, matter. We are here to learn lessons and the hard decisions we have to make are what helps us grow as humans. Our destiny is not something we can sit by and let happen to us.
Have you resigned to your fate or are you seeking your destiny?
But we’re better off believing in it anyway.
Wake up and grab the opportunities in front of you.
Theosophy holds that order pervades the manifested universe because everything exists according to the laws of nature. Natural law operates in the material realm as well as in the subtler fields of thought and feeling.
If karma is truly one of the Buddha’s most important teachings, as he himself repeatedly emphasized, then to follow in his footsteps, we need to be clear about its definition.
Few concepts are as misunderstood or difficult to define as the concept of karma. Like love and happiness, it seems to mean something different to everyone, even as most would probably agree it has something to do with the principles of destiny, fate, predeterminism, and even reincarnation.