Asking people what they want in a focused blog brings responses. A lot of people lurk but never indicate, except by the uptick of the stats, that they are present. In one of my blogs I asked what related to Buddhism should I focus on. The comments all related to karma.
Karma seems like the magic solution to so many mysteries in life. It has replaced superstition as the explanation of “Why things go wrong?” It has become a toss off phrase for any and every situation. It’s short and simple and seems to cover all bases but in that context it means exactly nothing. To say a situation is just someone’s good or bad karma is a dismissal and an easy excuse for not bothering to think too deeply about the answer or to take personal responsibility for actions that caused the situation.
Media doesn’t help matters with the glib sound bites. Simple answers like that give a temporary sense of false security but that doesn’t give any real help to those that are looking for real answers. Karma is intricately complicated in every situation but simple in principle. It is the action or mechanism of interdependence at work.
This entry will be the focus of a series of posts on The Enlightenment Ward blog
