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by NemoNobody
857 days ago
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That's not how Karma or nirvana works. Unfortunately, Nirvana is a passing state - one can attempt to live in a state of Nirvana at all times but it would literally require serene peaceful monasteries with little to no contact with the outside world. If one participates in reality they will be affected by it and we are all human and cannot be perfect at all times - that wouldn't even be a quality life if we tried to be. Which is what karma is - the sum of what we do, it doesn't stop accumulating, it's like data - you don't stop/can't stop generating it. The comment regarding drugs being a shortcut to emotional control is fairly accurate. If I have had a bad I could meditate and calm my mind or I could take a hit off my weed vape and not do that. Obviously one of those is superior to the other |
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It is also possible to burn down the karma you already have by the practice of true love and agony
it doesn't require abandoning your family and living away from society, but it can certainly be experienced while being in society and while having a family. The same goes for enlightenment. It is not something that you can achieve by abandoning your family, but is something that you can achieve while having a family.
here's a pretty decent article that defines karma. his other lectures explain in more detail some of the other things that I've mentioned. I hope that you have a chance to read it carefully, and that you can get something good from it. If you find yourself struggling with any doubts still, please try to ask me. I have understood things that can take some years and lots of effort.
people think it is reality which entangles them but it's actually the falsehood and karma of our societies and society members combined with our ignorance and we fall into the traps. But what happens if you fill up your ignorance? You experience actual peace. when you throw away your falsehood and enlighten yourself to the fundamental law of the world and the questions, then you can begin to recognize the traps in what you think and in what people say, and the ignorances that they still have, and you can clarify them for people on the spot as an act of love. You will have to observe what happens when you practice true love for people and eventually you'll understand why it burns down your karma to witness and leads you to perfect enlightenment. but it's quite clear from this, that you cannot achieve an enlightenment by leaving the very place where you must do the work. The virtue that you need will be accomplished by good deeds by serving the world in actuality.
https://tathagata.netlify.app/page/karma