Theos-Talk Archives (August 1998 Message tt00474)

Aug 28th 1998

As I understand it, the spiritual "leaders" of Tibet at no time recommended
fighting to protect their land.  It is the secular and administrative
aspects of the Tibetan Government which decided to oppose with arms the
invasion, everyone resents an usurper, and few can resist the impulse to
retaliate when property is confiscated and persons are abused.

[ Question:  Theosophically, How and why did Tibet become subject to such a
situation ? ]

At least they did not use land mines which are cowardly weapons designed (as
is "saturation bombing" or "nuclear bombing" and other acts of terrorism,
for instance) to subdue the armed might of a country by spreading terror and
horror among its people.  Such acts are indefensible, and any country (and
its citizens) who support and permit this are inviting the attention of the
karma of unbrotherliness and insensitive negligence
upon themselves.  [ That is my opinion.]

If you look carefully at any scheme of government, at their commencement,
they established certain rights and privileges for their citizens.
Sometimes they established themselves in a revolutionary milieu and at other
times there have been peaceful separations and a division and redistribution
of administrative functions. [ Belgium / Netherlands in 1830, and
Czechoslovakia in the last few years. And there may be other cases of
record. ]
Usually they adopt rules and laws which are copied from those operative
elsewhere.  They may be selective but generally there are serious defects,
which only can be later rectified by Amendments to constitution or Bill or
rights, if those exist.  This is the history of most governments.  But this
is NOT how Karma works.  It works on individuals; and when a mass of
individuals are have acted in consort, then we have family, racial or
national Karma that comes into play.

Ideally there ought to be no formal government and all communities ought to
be cooperative in the fullest sense if the ideal of Brotherhood were to be
applied voluntarily and universally.  This sounds like anarchy.  But, when
you think o fit, all people act independently from moment to moment
according to their "conscience."

Most government are a kind of enforced cooperation.  Most governments end up
passing laws which define and constrain abuses.  Those are attempts to place
ethics on Statute books.  And in some cases they legalize ethical abuses.
We end up with a two-tier or a multi-tiered set of standards and everything
is confused, as those who are amoral or immoral try to circumvent the
written (and the unwritten) laws..

However, anyone who has widely traveled knows that the written laws of
states and countries are largely unknown to both the visitors and the
citizens -- who live according to their innate ethical natures.  It is
remarkable that most people know what is right and also are aware of what is
wrong, no matter where they go, and not taking customary mores into account.

To me, it seems that we ought to try and see what the particular result of
decisions are that affect the lives of others in terms of the general
principles that theosophy offers us to investigate and seek out.

At the end of LIGHT ON THE PATH  is a valuable essay on KARMA.

HPB deals with Karma and reincarnation together in the KEY ( p. 201 ...)

In THE OCEAN OF THEOSOPHY, chapter 11 is devote to studying Karma.

Those of us who have access to Blavatsky COLLECTED WRITINGS will find in the
Index plenty of valuable references to Karma, which, gathered together, give
a very complete view of the subject and its ramifications, which like the
nerves in our own bodies can be seen to go everywhere throughout all nature
and affect everything in Evolution.  So, too, in the SECRET DOCTRINE, using
the INDEX much can be learned by going through the references available
there.

Best wishes,

                                                    Dallas TenBroeck
                                                       dalval@nwc,net

> Date: Friday, August 28, 1998 5:49 PM
> From: "Bart Lidofsky" <bartl@sprynet.com>
> Subject: Re: 1/3 of Adults in the USA on online

>Rodolfo Don wrote:
>> Interesting that Tibet never used land mines to protect itself from
China,
>> even if they were threatened, and finally overrun and occupied by Chinese
>> forces.
>
> And look what happened to the people of Tibet, as a result. Do you mean
>to say that if they had used land mines, the result would have been
>worse?
>
> Bart Lidofsky
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