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First Karma
Where does the first karma come from to get the whole karmic ball rolling? The first karma comes from a state of existence that permeates all others. The ground of being. It serves as a sort of infrastructure for all of creation, though it isn’t quite as empty and featureless as some authorities would describe…
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Karma and Liberation in Jainism
Jainism is a religion of Indian origin, but with a minority following that may be the oldest example of an ascetic religion in the world, and does still exist today. It shares many concepts with Vedantism, also known as Vedic Hinduism, but differs in its emphasis on the individual and the sanctity of the individual…
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Karma Yoga
Tantrism tends to be karma yoga. Liberation by exhausting the karmas, positive or negative. In the tantric view you willingly incure positive karma in sex. Delve into it. Lose yourself in it, and by doing so see it for what it is. But also, and this isn’t so public, they do embrace negative karma also.…
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Balance Your Karma with Symbol
Could you cast runes, not just to predict the future, but to manipulate it? Actually, they were not usually cast to predict the future. It can be cast for that purpose. It’s not invalid. It just wasn’t their most common focus. It was thought that your future was dictated by your personal luck. We get…
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Fortune vs Karma
It does get hard to reconcile the fact that good things happen to bad people and vice versa. Good fortune happens to bad people because fortune treats everyone equally. Bad people can understand the web of fortune, can’t they? Yes. They are able to understand it as well as good people are, and some even make…
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Gnani, Bhakti and Karma Yoga
That trio I mentioned earlier, thought, belief, and action, these three form the core of any system of yoga, and ultimately anyone will manifest a leaning toward one of these over the others in yoga practice. The three correspond to Gnani, Bhakti, and Karma yoga respectively. In Gnani yoga, you seek to cultivate true understanding…
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Demonic Karma
Do demonolators believe in personal responsibility? They do. They parallel satanists in many ways in day to day stuff. They differ in the spiritualism aspect so satanists would deny that demonolators have anything in common with them. To demonolators the consequences of your actions are enacted by the demons, a sort of demonic karma. So…