KARMA

    "MAYA" is the Divine Dreamer Godess that spins out the creation
    like a spider spins out her web.  She has us all caught in her web.  
    And She keeps us caught by making us think we like it.

    You ask "What in the heck is going on???"  That's KARMA.  You
    say "Why the heck did I do that!?"  Your KARMA caut you again.
    You say "they" are doing it to you, but don't know how to get
    out of it. You say you caused all this in your Past Life, but still
    that doesn't resolve things.

    Eventually we start to feel a sort of "divine discontent".  We realize
    we're prisoners. We realize we're being fooled.  We realize there is
    another reality.  And we start the long path of waking up.

    The THEORY OF KARMA says there is a "Guiding Hand" behind
    everything. Or maybe it's all lessons and training for our SOUL
    EVOLUTION. The Guiding Hand always surprises me in the co-
    relation of Human Destiny with the interrelation of Stars and
    Planets with Human Destiny. There is a cosmic intelligence.

    According to my friend Athena:

    "However, in every instance, our given lot in life and exact
    geographical placement is being orchestrated from a higher
    level and set into motion through precise cosmic laws.  These
    details are always established prior to birth, as being the most
    suitable circumstances for what we, as a Soul need to learn,
    overcome and experience and contribute."
       
    GOOD KARMA becomes DHARMA.  Karma is action / DHARMA is action that
    supports "evolution" - the wholistic evolution of ourselves and others
    simultaneously.  

    The Karma we come into this World with is not the Karma we leave with.  FRESH
    KARMA is cooked up every day. So we gotta make Good K.

    Good Karma then becomes DHARMA.   Just as Karma is Action, DHARMA is Action
    that Promotes Evolution, good for us and others at the same time.  The conscious
    person lives to create Good K.  

        
    SOME THOTS ABOUT KARMA

    If we want to put aside Karma we have to pick it up delicately.  Meditation
    is that delicate touch.

    Escaping Karma - through beer and football, suicide, whatever - doesn't
    work. The lesson will come back, maybe even stronger, until faced and
    resolved.

    Total dediction to the work at hand (Karma) is meditation too.  Even nasty
    job brings joy.

    We don't need to take on Karma that is not ours.  Hanging out with the
    wrong people can bring this sad situation.

    Eventually, we start to experience Non-action in the midst of Action.  "Life
    as it is supposed to be."  Then a higher trajectory starts to tke over.

    "Every addiction is going to prevent you from becoming a meditator. All addictions
    have to be dropped. But to be total in your work is a totally different thing. To be total
    in your work is not addiction, it is a kind of meditation. ... you will have a joy arising
    out of a perfect work. If you can be perfect and total in work, you can be total in no-
    work - just sitting silently, totally silent."   Osho

    "We are never to passively tolerate abuse, cruelty or oppression,
    nor any circumstance that we are able to change or ameliorate."  Athena

    "Each one of us has been selected and specifically assigned a certain number of
    meritorious acts, and good works that are part our destiny to accomplish. Are you
    fulfilling your allotted portion of beneficence on Earth?
        Know that everything that is Divinely 'marked' for you will find you at just the
    perfect time.  There is no need to ever worry, attempt to manipulate or try to force
    the outcome of events.  Instead learn how to harmonize and flow with the directive
    currents of the Holy Spirit. Yield to the Divine Spirit as the Eagle yields to the shifting
    currents of the wind.        Athena


    "All the joy the world contains has come thru wishing happiness for others.  All the misery
    the World contains has come thru wishing pleasure for oneself."  ShantiDeva

    The thought manifests as the word
    The word manifests as the deed
    The deed develops ino habit
    And habit hardens into character
    So watch the thought and its ways with care
    And let it spring out of concern for all beings...
    As the shadow follows the body
    As we think so we become."
    Buddha