Ten Aphorisms on Karma

1. Ancient texts say: You reap what you sow. The mango seed produces the sweet mango fruit. The bitter neem seed produces the bitter neem fruit.

2. Remember to reflect on the probable impact in the future of your actions today.

3. Acceptance can bring about a state of inaction. Reaction can trigger aggression. Find and respond to the middle way between these two extremes.

   

   Be mindful of shadows. They can go far. A selfie taken in Totnes, Devon, England

4. A person with disabilities (compared to others) does not need to reflect on past lives, nor the punishment of God, nor on fate, nor on random selection of species. Causes/conditions generate a multiplicity of manifestations of life.

5. The force that takes away the life of another (s) is the same force that takes away the life of the perpetrator(s), sooner or later.

6. Know the difference between the wisdom of a critical judgement and being judgemental.

7. Superfluous and shallow undertakings form the backbone of a superfluous and shallow existence.

8. Intense views of science, secularism, spirituality, religion and self’s manufacturing of views confirm a frozen mind.

9. From the arising of this, that arises. If this does not arise, that will not arise. A 2600-year-old statement worthy of regular reflection.

10. Actions which emerge from transcendent realisations are not bound to karma.