Nonduality and karma: what is karma and what is transcending karma?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 8 ธ.ค. 2019
- Eric Putkonen talks about nonduality and karma. He answers the questions of what is karma, what is transcending karma, and other questions about karma from the standpoint of nonduality. To answer some of this, he also refers to Karma Yoga and its practices.
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Thank you for such a lovely explanation. I have doubts though, does spiritual process like say doing a certain practise like kriya accelerate karmic dissolution? I noticed immense suffering once I started on this path. I understand it isn’t MY karma but atleast for now since I’m living in the illusion of a separate self, I take proprietorship of it. Isn’t it wise to be mindful of your actions so that the journey to realisation becomes smooth, once the awakening process has started? Also, with all these past life memories and all, is there really a purpose for all “souls” to awaken eventually?
Who is this "I" that has such doubts and questions? Find out who you really are. Then questions like accelerating karma or smooth journey won't arise. That is to say, these questions have no bearing to realizing who/what you are. There is no purpose...this is the Divine Play. Sometimes playing hide and seek with itSelf.
🐟 08. KARMA (ACTION & REACTION):
The Sanskrit word "karma" originates from the verbal root "kri", meaning work, ACTION or deed.
Every thought or deed produces an equal and opposite REACTION.
When junk 'foods' are consumed, one's health is damaged to the degree that one eats such things.
When we deliberately hurt another living creature, we are burdened with feelings of guilt, etcetera.
The so-called "LAW of karma" is misunderstood to be a mechanism of divine retribution, by practically all who study spirituality, especially Eastern religious traditions and so-called "new age" teachings.
In one sense, there can not be a good result from a good action because (apart from the fact that good and bad are relative) there is no such thing as a separate event. The whole space-time creation is one massive event. How is it possible to separate the event of one’s birth from what took place before it and after it?
Karma/action operates solely on an ever-forward-moving trajectory - a chain of causation. The concept of a “tit for tat” law of action, especially over more than one lifetime, is not only unverifiable, it is downright absurd. If a man murders a million persons using a nuclear weapon, will he subsequently be killed by a million atomic bombs? Unlikely in the EXTREME - only a dunce could possibly believe such utter nonsense.
Supposing that this fairytale scenario was accurate, what would be the eternal benefit of a person being subject to a million deaths by atomic weaponry? It's not as though he'll recall his dastardly deed in subsequent lifetimes, in order to repent for his sinful action. There's no need to further explore this line of reasoning because it's absolutely ridiculous, apart from the fact that reincarnation is also both unverifiable and illogical (see the next chapter of "FISH").
Simple logic dictates that every action which has occurred in this universe was FULLY dependent on every action that led-up to it, all the way back to the initial spark (the so-called “Big Bang”).
Because physicists now know that even seemingly solid objects are composed (almost) entirely of empty space, every atom in our universe can be packed into a inordinately-dense ball of energy. That superlatively-focused energy became this space-time universe, and whatever occurred afterwards was DESTINED to happen, just as the result of the explosion of a bomb can be predicted beforehand (assuming one has all the relevant data surrounding the event).
Despite what most everyone believes, “determinism” or “predestination” is IRREFUTABLE. The popular notion of retributive karma has no scientific evidence whatsoever and ought to be rejected by any intelligent person.
“For here the saying holds true, 'One sows and another reaps.' I sent you to reap that for which you did not labor. Others have labored, and you have entered into their labor."
Lord Jesus Christ,
St. John 4:37-38.
"Instant Karma's gonna get you,
Gonna knock you right on the head.
You better get yourself together,
Pretty soon you're gonna be dead."
John Lennon,
English Singer-Songwriter.
I suggest that Karma is just another mind-concept based on cause and effect. It makes sense in the unconscious stages, but later it is realized that time does not exist and every possibility already exists.
@@stefan_musil, What you have stated relates to the ABSOLUTE, while we are speaking of the RELATIVE.
Confusing and conflating relative and absolute truth is practically MANDATORY for spiritual neophytes.
Perhaps one day you will come to see that there is no need to speak about everything from the Absolute perspective.
It is unbeneficial to the persons with whom you are conversing (unless, of course, they are thoroughly deluded materialists, who are unable to see beyond the physical realm).
Peace! ✌🏻
What about karmas of a separate self carrying "forward" as vasanas to the next incarnation ....?
There is no separate self...such a separate self (i.e. a "me") is an illusion. There is no "separate karma" either. Separation is an illusion and does not really exist.
Why the evil and Good exist in Singularity??
Will the evil people face the reaction in this life??
I have a video about the nonduality of good and evil - th-cam.com/video/eUwsOIwmE54/w-d-xo.html
As for the why...you need robbers to have cops (to play cops and robbers)...you need villains to have heroes...you need challenges to have triumph over adversity, you need losing to exist in order to win, you need valleys in order to have peaks to summit. They go together. Put it this way...would you watch a two hour play or movie that had no villains, no challenges, no hardship, no suspense, etc.? Let alone live in such a reality for 100 years.