Theos-Talk Archives (June 2003 Message tt00107)

Saturday, June 14, 2003


Dear Mauri:

Karma is a law of balance and of results = causes That's all.
No shilly-shallying, No one can escape, or beat the rap.

Put your finger into a pot of boiling water and it is scalded.

Pick up bare-handed a block of dry ice, or liquid Nitrogen, and
you get a cold burn.

But we can avid the "burns" by figuring out the danger ahead of
time and avoiding it.

In moral/ethical matters we can do the same.

Brotherhood, when practised, is the great preventive of "bad
Karma."

Dal

=======================

-----Original Message-----
From: Mauri
Sent:	Saturday, June 14, 2003 4:59 AM
To:
Subject:	re karma/kama, Dallas

Dallas wrote: <<Karma does not spawn notions. I
think you mean KAMA or emotions, desires and
passions as a principle in themselves. If you refer
back to the KEY TO THEOSOPHY (HPB) that your
read, under KARMA, and under KAMA the
difference will be clearer I think. Best wishes, Dallas>>

I think I meant "karma-spawned notions" as in the
sense of "dualistic/multiplistic thinking in general
within ordinary reality"... though "kama," as a
"considered perspective" (if not "preferentially" seen
as a "sub-heading" or "somewhat separate
classification," say, in some cases, by some people, as
per whatever "preferred principle" or perspective ... ?)
so "kama," as a "considered perspective" (ie, "a
'''' .....---or might some of "us,"
like me, be getting kind of beyond ourselves into some
kind of splitting of esoteric hairs, here, maybe, to some
extent, in some sense ... ^:-) but couldn't "we" (if not
ncecessarily you and I, Dallas) consider the possibility
that "karma" (whatever that might "really mean" in
some kind of "esoteric/experiential terms," eh ... ?)
might have something to do with various
"thought-related" things "in general," sort of, maybe ...
Sorry, I'm just sort of thinking aloud again. Not that ...
...Dallas, in a sense, in any case. Thanks for that!
I don't know what you might've
"really had in mind," there, Dallas, but, then, I suppose
I could say the same kind of thing about "myself" ... I
think ... speculatively ... in a sense, maybe ...

Speculatively,
Mauri