Karma and Love. How do they interact together?
@innertalks (21157)
Australia
November 21, 2016 10:10pm CST
God is love, and if God is a oneness of that love, it means that we are all a part of him, and so love too.
What then is karma, and what is its relationship to love?
Karma is about gaining the ability to listen to love in new ways.
When you refuse to listen to love, the beat of karma on your ears, body, and mind becomes stronger, and so this then brings you things that you might not think that you like, but until you learn the new tune of love, karma, for now, seems to be playing for you the wrong notes, but it never is.
Every note is important in the music of God, and it is also always a part of your own compositional part in his orchestra.
"What you sow, you reap", says the Christian bible in Galatians, chapter six, verse seven.
"Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, this he will also reap."
But this type of reaping is not karma, this is simply about your growing from your own seed into the being God created you to be, but within yourself, if you sow other seeds of deceit, and sinfulness, these will grow as weeds in your mind.
Karma is a teacher, not a punisher.
Sowing and reaping is about how things grow from the seeds that are planted by you. Karma is about helping your rightful seeds to grow in their rightful ways.
Instead of the love in your heart blossoming into the flower that you are, with the help of the pruning power of karma, your love might then be covered over by these weeds, growing in your mind, then instead. (This happens if you ignore the lessons that karma is trying to show you, and to grow you by)
Let karma prune you, and accept what it brings and you will always create a new song of love within you then too. Stop growing weeds of blame, and discontent in your mind. Stop covering over your love with your mind's weeds.
Do you agree? How do you think Karma is related to love?
Bible > Galatians > Chapter 6 > Verse 7? Galatians 6:7 ?Parallel VersesNew International VersionDo not be deceived: God cannot be mocked. A man reaps what he sows.New Living TranslationDon't be misled--you cannot mock the justice of God. You will always ha
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@innertalks (21157)
• Australia
4 Dec 16
Karma is just an Eastern word for the idea of sowing what you reap I think in a lot of ways.
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@just4him (308542)
• Green Bay, Wisconsin
4 Dec 16
@innertalks As I saw in another comment, it's a Buddhist term.
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@innertalks (21157)
• Australia
4 Dec 16
@just4him Karma seems to include the idea of reincarnation within its teachings too. Most Christians do not believe in that idea though, I think.
Is reincarnation true though?
Do we live more than one physical existence in a physical body then, or not?
Is it really being alluded to in this verse from the Christian bible?
"And if you are willing to accept it, he (John the Baptist) is the Elijah who was to come." Matthew chapter 11, verse 14.
What did Jesus mean by this?
Moses came back onto the Earth to speak to Jesus on the mountain, and was recognised by his disciples, but John the Baptist was exclusively himself, as was Elijah.
Reincarnation simply means I think that each soul "reincarnates" into another type of body within Heaven, not on the earth.
@innertalks (21157)
• Australia
4 Dec 16
Yes, I also think it is a good match.
What we sow in our lives, we will reap one day again.
So if we sow good seeds, or do good deeds, we will reap beautiful flowers, or great rewards in some way for our doing this, at some time in our future, even if we do not look for them.
That is the way the "law" works.
Where we sow them is also important too though.
If we sow them in a heart of love, (or from a heart of love) and water them continuously with that same love, they will grow in the way they were meant to grow in, but if we plant them solely in our minds, then do not water them, but continuously worry about them, or fret too much over them growing or not, this might then tend to stifle their optimal growth too.
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@Shiva49 (26245)
• Singapore
21 Dec 16
We are tested of our resolve to stand by what is right and that we should know by listening to our inner prompt.
If we sow rice we cannot get corn.
Many forget as they pretend to be what they are not and then only deceive themselves even repeatedly.
God is love but we reap what we sow as individuals - siva
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@innertalks (21157)
• Australia
21 Dec 16
Nicely put siva, a good summary of what I was trying to say here too.
I particularly like your last observation: God is love but we reap what we sow as individuals.
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@lovelyironady (80)
• Guangzhou, China
22 Nov 16
yeah, I agree with you. it sounds like Buddhist language, ..
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@innertalks (21157)
• Australia
22 Nov 16
Yes, I think that every part of life is there to serve us, if we allow it too.
Suffering only occurs if we are being choked by our own weeds, and if we are not growing the love within us, into its fullest blossoming possible for us, of God's truth, wisdom, and understanding. We can become flowers in God's garden by living in this way, and allowing Karma to prune and shape us, into our optimum growth.
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