Theos-Talk Archives (July 1996 Message tl00348)

In message <960713153939_76400.1474_HHL39-3@CompuServe.COM>, Jerry
Schueler <76400.1474@CompuServe.COM> writes
>For an example, take karma.

Right.

>  Now I have suggested
>that karma is a whole lot more complicated than the simple
>idea of rewards and punishments.

I am sure this is right too, in fact I personally doubt that it has
anything to do with reward and punishments at all, but is, as the
material says it is, the *law* of karma, eg., you bang your head on the
wall and it hurts.  The *need* in terms of actions we can take, is not
to be "goody-goody" or the reverse, but to study, learn, and understand
the *law* and how it works.

>  This does not mean that
>"karma is rewards and punishments for our actions" is wrong.

.. so that some "karmic consequences" will seem like these, especially
when we know what we did to get them ...

>I am really only suggesting that there is more to it than that.

.. with which view I concur!

Alan
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