From: Adrian Tymes (wingcat@pacbell.net)
Date: Wed Mar 12 2003 - 23:04:29 MST
--- spike66 <spike66@attbi.com> wrote:
> Please someone, what the heck is karma? I mean the
> traditional meaning, is it something like good luck?
> Or more like charisma? Or what?
http://home.pacbell.net/amsec/karm1a.html gives a
definition I like.
> The idea is this: When an entity acts, he acts from
> within; he acts through an expenditure in greater or
> less degree of his own native energy. This
> expenditure of energy, this outflowing of energy, as
> it impacts upon the surrounding milieu, the nature
> around us, brings forth from the latter perhaps an
> instantaneous or perhaps a delayed reaction or
> rebound. Nature, in other words, reacts against the
> impact; and the combination of these two -- of
energy
> acting upon nature and nature reacting against the
> impact of that energy -- is what is called karma,
> being a combination of the two factors.
In short, karma is you acting upon the world,
including
the effort itself and its consequences. Rather
extropian (or, at least, anti-entropian), it seems.
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