Karma's a Bitch?

Karma is not the bitch, we are. Karma (from the Pali Kamma) simply means action. Actions are performed in three ways ~ by body, mind or in speech. Every action of significance is performed because there is a DESIRE for a result. This desire, no matter how mild, is a form of craving. The craving just proves that we exist. To exist is to act, existence and action are inseparable. All actions are bound to have intention (the volition). And some form of desire is behind every activity of life. To live is to "desire".

An action, Karma, is morally wholesome or unwholesome. It is, unwholesome when it is motivated by the forms of craving that are associated with greed, hatred and delusion. It is wholesome when it is motivated by indifference, friendship and wisdom. An act so motivated is prompted by intention rather than by craving. Yet in every act of craving, intention is included. Intention gives direction and form to the deed.

The misrepresentation that Karma is a ''bitch'' may stem from the negativity we draw to ourselves when our actions are unwholesome. You see, we all have a tendency to take credit when good things happen around us (also caused from Karma) but we love to pass the buck when the not so nice enters our world (life's a bitch).

Each action with intent attached is our own creation. The will behind it, constitutes a force, similar to the great, unseen physical forces that move the universe. By our thoughts, words and actions, we create our world from moment to moment in the endless process of change.

We also create our "selves", that is to say, we mould our changing personality as we go along, by the accumulation of such thoughts, words and actions. We not only create our personality , we create the conditions in which it functions. In other words, we create the kind of world we are to live in. The mind, therefore, is the master of our world. As a man's mind is, so is his cosmos.

Please remember that we carry our personalities forward from past lives. All action from all lives are remembered in this life, stored in our cells (cell memory). Are we rewarded or distracted in this life for actions put forth in a previous life? Could be!

Each person's Karma is his own personal act, its results are his own personal inheritance. He alone has complete command over his actions, no matter to what degree others may try to force him.

So the next time you want to be a bitch remember that Karma may show up at your doorstop wearing a T-shirt with the word BIATCH splashed across the chest. Then again it may not show up for sometime?