Theos-Talk Archives (March 1999 Message tt00241)

March 18th

Gerry :

In my talks with you I have been trying to find a good word that
would serve to signify the parameters of the Law of karma which
we could both use as a kind of short-cut in our talks to convey
from my point of view a non-human action/reaction aspect of Law
which when applied to human affairs is views in part as mores,
morals, ethics, and what-not - all signifying the idea that quite
basic to those varies definitions there has to be a universal,
and impartial something that is actuated when its laws are
transgressed.

If you have the LIGHT ON THE PATH, at the end of the little book
is a quite useful essay on KARMA. And there I think such a
definition is attempted.

I see and understand KARMA to be a vast and all-inclusive law
which impels evolution and then also impels the parts that
free-willed human minds play each in their own sphere.

Dal

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-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:owner-theos-talk@pippin.imagiware.com] On Behalf Of
Gerald Schueler
Sent:	Thursday, March 18, 1999 10:18 AM
To:	theos-talk@theosophy.com
Subject:	Theos-World Ethics & Karma

>>Of course ETHICS are UNIVERSAL as the LAW OF KARMA is
UNIVERSAL.  As
far as I know they are inflexible.  You (or I) "gets back" in
terms of
effect what "you sows" in terms of causes.  If they have an
ethical
impact then you and I get an ethical response. >>

Dallas, if we have any disagreement here it is doubtless
in the terminology itself. I see "ethics" as a man-made code
of behaviors and reaking of good and bad. Causation is
indeed impersonal and has nothing at all to do with good
or evil, which are our own subjective calls.

Even though karma can be considered a universal law
in the sense that it applies throughout our universe, it
does not account for all actions--acausal events do
occur, call them chaos or God's Will or whatever. I like
to think of these as part of our collective karma, which
is causal in a collective but not a personal sense.

Jerry S.


















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