Paha Sapa, or the Black Hills, will be the scene for the greater part of the 3rd book in a series that follows the life of a Celestial (Chinese person) in the 19th century.
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This page may someday be the location of posts and comments having to do with KARMA. As of now, February 2018, obligations elsewhere is curtailing the time spent on this website. However, below is a place where it sounds like after the storm, there's a sense of cleansing in the atmosphere. Try it out.
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Here's an excerpt that applies (from Chapter 4 of Book 2):
The clouds broke and the sky looked blue. Li Chao had the notion that Heaven had been listening; the clouds, those celestial witnesses nearest earth, had seen everything all along. As the atmosphere cleared, revived by a cleansing rain, the impression he received was a sense that lessons learned from a high and holy terror were over for the day; and so it was that glory showed its backside and passed on by.
The clouds broke and the sky looked blue. Li Chao had the notion that Heaven had been listening; the clouds, those celestial witnesses nearest earth, had seen everything all along. As the atmosphere cleared, revived by a cleansing rain, the impression he received was a sense that lessons learned from a high and holy terror were over for the day; and so it was that glory showed its backside and passed on by.
REPUBLISHED FROM WORDPRESS 4-14-18
DOES KARMA DANCE TO THOUGHTS?
Some people assume reincarnation is a given. Others don’t.
Simply stated, karma revolves around the law of cause and effect.
Most have no problem with that.
While disbelievers disembark there, the naturally curious take another step into the unknown to ask, “How encompassing is such a law?” And, “What constitutes a cause?” Furthermore, “Are thoughts considered actionable things? They affect outcomes.”
Physical actions stem from decisions conveyed by thoughts or instincts. Are those precursors to experiential events, those undercover operatives, underground guides, above-board advisors, those hidden perpetrators and dictators behind our overt actions, even when their power has been subverted due to outside agents—still vulnerable to karmic consequences? Does sowing bad seed result in a karmic retaliation when not even a sprout pops up?
No doubt—our actions are deliberate (whether consciously enacted or not).
If karmic law is inescapably so, what we think, conjure, plan or imagine, is measured by a set of universal ethics. What goes on in the mind either aligns or doesn’t. Something will come of these initiators, which does not rule out the intrusion of a successor agent to refute the first arriving thought. This begs the question, though no triggered synapse can put a barreled bullet back, could neural connections be countered precisely enough to affect a zero sum and thereby nullify any karmic consequence?
In the grand scheme of things, do second chances align with universal justice? Should such a thing happen, even on first thought, might the floodgates of nirvana open unto us?
DOES KARMA DANCE TO THOUGHTS?
Some people assume reincarnation is a given. Others don’t.
Simply stated, karma revolves around the law of cause and effect.
Most have no problem with that.
While disbelievers disembark there, the naturally curious take another step into the unknown to ask, “How encompassing is such a law?” And, “What constitutes a cause?” Furthermore, “Are thoughts considered actionable things? They affect outcomes.”
Physical actions stem from decisions conveyed by thoughts or instincts. Are those precursors to experiential events, those undercover operatives, underground guides, above-board advisors, those hidden perpetrators and dictators behind our overt actions, even when their power has been subverted due to outside agents—still vulnerable to karmic consequences? Does sowing bad seed result in a karmic retaliation when not even a sprout pops up?
No doubt—our actions are deliberate (whether consciously enacted or not).
If karmic law is inescapably so, what we think, conjure, plan or imagine, is measured by a set of universal ethics. What goes on in the mind either aligns or doesn’t. Something will come of these initiators, which does not rule out the intrusion of a successor agent to refute the first arriving thought. This begs the question, though no triggered synapse can put a barreled bullet back, could neural connections be countered precisely enough to affect a zero sum and thereby nullify any karmic consequence?
In the grand scheme of things, do second chances align with universal justice? Should such a thing happen, even on first thought, might the floodgates of nirvana open unto us?
