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Free will and karma

Free will is an important issue in Western Philosophy – usually contrasted with predestination. This gets us, unfortunately, in a very all or nothing kind of discussion if we don’t watch out.Predestination, karma and fate are all sometimes used as ways of saying that what is, was meant to be. However, unfortunately, this is often [...]

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Karma in the Bhagavad Gita

Vijay Kumar commented on my post about karma and free will with the remark that the Bhagavad Gita has something to say about the topic. He stresses the freedom of the Soul, or Atma, and it’s joy in finding itself in life, doing something. He has a point, but how does that relate to freedom [...]

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Free will, karma and reincarnation

It’s an often asked question: how much free will do we have, if karma rules our lives? I usually answer: Karma rules our circumstances, our potential, our habits. Karma does not rule what we do with all that today. What we do today: thoughts, emotions, insights, words and deeds creates new karma. Let’s back up [...]

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The karma of disease and health

The relationship between karma and disease is a controversial one. There is the common sense view that since disease is unwelcome, it ‘must be’ bad karma. On the other hand there is a long tradition of theosophical thought saying that bad karma doesn’t exist. I was reading up on a related topic this summer and [...]

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A question about (Group) karma: below average intellect?

I hope you can throw light on the following matter in connection with the karmic effects. A relative has been born with a below-average intellect; he takes time to respond to questions or join in on social conversations. He also has a very poor memory, cannot recall events, forgets what he went to another room [...]

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Good karma and money

I guess I can’t get away from the topic of karma. In my post on karma and right action I wrote that The doctrine of karma is in Biblical words ‘as you sow, so you will reap’. Contrary to what many people suggest it is a long term doctrine. It means in simple terms that [...]

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Karma and learning from life

One of the harder parts of Blavatsky’s explanation of karma and reincarnation is that she insisted that only the best in people goes on to form part of the divine Ego. That is: a person without a shred of goodness in them will be lost to the higher self. They will have lost the opportunity [...]

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Karma and right action

I find myself writing posts in reverse order: starting with the complicated stuff and ending with the basics. Today’s post is the basics, but it is in some ways also the hardest part of the doctrine of karma. The doctrine of karma is in Biblical words ‘as you sow, so you will reap’. Contrary to [...]

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Karma and Time

Comments on my posts about group karma have made it clear that not all of my readers are aware of the basics of the doctrine of karma. The law of karma (a law of nature just like the law of physics) basicly states that all action will have consequences for the person acting. In everyday [...]

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Karma and Harmony

Group Karma is but the specific working out of a more general aspect of karma that gets ignored or forgotten too easily. In the words of H.P. Blavatsky: Nor would the ways of Karma be inscrutable were men to work in union and harmony, instead of disunion and strife. and

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