Theos-Talk Archives (March 1999 Message tt00290)

Mar 20th

 

Dear Gerry:

 

From a "one-life" point of view, or from the view point of the anxiety of our present personality TO DO SOMETHING -- you are correct in making it seem "pointless."

 

But in terms of eternity and immortality it could not possibly be so

 

That is my opinion

 

Dal

 

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              Dallas TenBroeck
              dalval@nwc,net

 

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-theos-talk@pippin.imagiware.com [mailto:owner-theos-talk@pippin.imagiware.com]On Behalf Of Jerry Schueler
Sent: Saturday, March 20, 1999 10:44 AM
To: Theos World
Subject: Theos-World Good News!

>>[Dallas]I have never yet found any reason for confining

>>my concept of it.  In fact I do not perceive any causes

>>that are reasonable which might do that.

 

Actually, the only problem that I have about your definition

of karma and your statements about it is that your view

makes it sound endless and therefore pointless as well as

hopeless. Buddha, if not HPB, taught that karma could

be ended. In the same way that God's love and forgiveness

is the Good News of the Christians, so liberation is the

Good News of Buddhism. What is the Good News of

Theosophy if it teaches an endless and mindless series

of lifetimes? When we are dreaming, the Good News is

that it is just a dream because knowing that can allow us

to control what happens. Knowing that life itself is maya

allow us to control our karma, in much the same way.

 

Jerry S.