Short story: A Rabbi lectures on karma

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Rabbi Freeman Roskevski was giving a lecture on karma, the law of cause and effect. Here is what he said: "Every action, creates another connected action, such as when a rock is thrown, it might smash a window, hit someone in the head, or just dint the ground, when landing. There is always some connected action to that doing." "When a seed is planted, though, this is not karma, as a seed might either grow, or not grow, depending on where it is being planted, amongst weeds, on a concrete path, or in fertile ground. Every seed does not necessarily bear fruit, then." "But a thrown rock, always causes destruction of some type, and so some karma is created from this action." "One action is a process of nature, the other a created act, and it is only such created acts that incur karma." "Energy does not always return then to you in kind, as sometimes that energy is utilised from the process of nature so created, but at other times, the energy of an action will come back to you when the action carried out creates its consequentially connected action too." "What is karma in a nutshell then?" "Karma is simply the way that the Universe allows energy to loop with itself to balance itself out in any area of imbalance, created by an action, which creates a subsequent connected action, which is not just a process, created by God, for that nature to carry out as itself." Photo Credit: The photo used in this article was sourced from the free media site, pixabay.com Processes of nature are not karma. Only free will actions incur karma.