Karma Is...

Karma is the root cause of success and failure in every aspect of life. - Zhi Gang Sha

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Karma is justice. It does not reward or punish. It shows no favoritism because we have to earn all that we receive. Karma doesn't predestine anyone or anything. We create our own causes, and karma adjusts the effects with perfect balance. - Mary T. Browne

Karma is the universal law of cause and effect. You reap what you sow. You get what you earn. You are what you eat. If you give love, you get love. Revenge returns itself upon the avenger. What goes around comes around. - Mary T. Browne

Karma is one of those topics that many people know a little about, but it is often more complex than most people realize. The second law of thermodynamics is that for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. On the universal scale, this is the law of karma. The law of karma basically states that every action has a reaction and whatever you do to others will later return to you, either in this life or a future life. Furthermore, ignorance of the law is no excuse. We are still accountable for everything we do, regardless of whether we understand it or not. We cannot escape it, even if we do not believe it. Therefore, the best thing is to learn how it works. If everyone understood the law of karma, we would all be living a happier life in a brighter world. - Stephen Knapp

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Dependent Origination

No one and nothing can free you but your own understanding. - Ajahn Chah

The Way is in the heart. – The Buddha

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Nothing exists entirely on its own. Every event, every object, every thought, and every moment arises because countless causes and conditions come together. What appears permanent is often only a temporary meeting point of invisible forces. Change one condition, and the outcome changes. Remove the supporting causes, and the effect disappears.

This principle, known in Buddhist philosophy as Dependent Origination (Pratītyasamutpāda), suggests that reality is not made of isolated things, but of relationships an ever-changing web of causes giving rise to effects. It invites us to see existence not as fixed, but as a continuous process of becoming.

If nothing truly stands alone, what does that reveal about the nature of reality? – A Facebook post by ‘Dark Wisdom’

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Think And Exist

“I quote others only in order the better to express myself.” – Michel de montaigne

The following are from a Facebook Page called “Think And Exist”.

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Religion

There was a time when religion ruled the world. It is known as the Dark Ages. - Ruth Hurmence Green

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Respect for religion has become a code phrase meaning ‘fear of religion’. Religions, like all other ideas, deserve criticism, satire, and yes, our fearless disrespect. - Salman Rushie

Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense. - Voltaire

Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned. – Unknown

Where knowledge ends, religion begins. - Benjamin Disraeli

That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence. - Christopher Hitchens

Of what benefit is it to say our prayers regularly, go to church, receive the sacraments, and maybe go to confessions too; ay, feast the priest, and give alms to the poor, and yet lie, swear, curse, be drunk, covetous, unclean, proud, revengeful, vain and idle at the same time? - William Penn

There is no religion without love, and people may talk as much as they like about their religion, but if it does not teach them to be good and kind, it is all a sham. - Anna Sewell

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Spiritual Quotes

Your life is a process of self-realization. Nobody is coming to help you. Once you start feeling responsible for your own life you start growing. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning.

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Mind, body and spirit – they are all intricately linked and each must be nurtured and supported if we wish to attain or maintain our whole self in the best possible state of health. This more or less sums up the meaning of the term “Holistic Healing’.- Unknown

Few cross the river of time and are able to reach non-being. Most of them run up and down only on this side of the river. But those who when they know the law follow the path of the law, they shall reach the other shore and go beyond the realm of death. - Horatius

Look at the lake. When the sun shines, it radiates light and brightness. When the wind comes, there arise ripples and waves. There is a time for peaceful contemplation; there is a time for dynamic action; and all the time the lake remains itself. - Yongming Yanshou

Even if nobody passes by the side of the rose, the fragrance will still be spreading around, moving... somewhere, somebody may get it. And even if nobody gets it, it doesn't matter; it is simply natural for the flower to explode into fragrance. - Osho

A drop of water has the tastes of the water of the seven seas: there is no need to experience all the ways of worldly life. The reflections of the moon on one thousand rivers are from the same moon: the mind must be full of light. - Hung Tzu Ch'eng

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Mysticism

Mysticism is a human pursuit of direct experience with ultimate reality or the divine, often through introspective practices like meditation, contemplation, and prayer to transcend ordinary consciousness and achieve union with a higher power or truth. It involves transformative experiences that go beyond intellect, seeking direct knowledge of spiritual truths and potentially leading to profound personal and spiritual development. 

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Ever notice how some people seem to spot opportunities before anyone else? Almost like they're reading a rulebook the rest of us never received.

Ancient civilizations often spoke of "awakening" as if it unlocked access to a deeper layer of reality. Maybe they weren't talking about magic at all. Maybe they were describing awareness. The more of the bigger picture you can see, the less life feels random. Every choice, every challenge, every unexpected twist becomes another piece of a much larger puzzle. It's like finally understanding a game that everyone else has been playing on autopilot. The hidden rules don't suddenly appear — they were always there. You just begin noticing them.

That's the strange part about consciousness. It doesn't change the universe overnight... it changes how you move through it. Better decisions, clearer instincts, and fewer wasted moves often come from seeing connections others completely overlook. History's greatest thinkers believed wisdom wasn't about controlling reality — it was about understanding it deeply enough that reality started making sense.

So here's a question worth thinking about... if life has invisible rules hiding in plain sight, what changes the moment you finally start seeing the entire board instead of just your next move? - A Facebook post by ‘Elevenshot’

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You Are A Part of the Univese

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Every atom in the human body was forged in the nuclear furnace of a dying star and distributed across the cosmos in its final explosion, meaning the statement that human beings are made of stardust is not poetry but astrophysics, confirmed by every element heavier than hydrogen in your body having a documented stellar origin.

The same mathematical principles organizing the large scale structure of the universe, the branching of river systems, the architecture of neural networks, and the geometry of DNA are demonstrably identical across scales spanning billions of orders of magnitude, suggesting a single intelligence expressing itself fractally through every system rather than separate intelligences independently arriving at identical solutions.

Share what genuinely landing your cosmic origin changes about how you move through ordinary moments, and follow along for more on cosmic consciousness and interconnection. – A Facebook post

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Tao Te Ching

The ‘Tao Te Ching’, Chinese: 道德經; is a Chinese classic text and foundational work of Taoism traditionally credited to the sage Laozi though the text's authorship, date of composition and date of compilation are debated.

The Tao Te Ching had a profound influence on Chinese religious movements and on subsequent Chinese philosophers, who annotated, commended, and criticized the texts extensively.

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The following are some excerpts from the Tao Te Ching.

Know all things to be like this:
A mirage, a cloud castle,
A dream, an apparition,
Without essence, but with qualities that can be seen.

Know all things to be like this:
As the moon in a bright sky,
In some clear lake reflected,
Though to that lake the moon has never moved.

Know all things to be like this:
As an echo that derives
From music, sounds, and weeping,
Yet in that echo is no melody.

Know all things to be like this:
As a magician makes illusions
Of horses, oxen, carts and other things,
Nothing is as it appears.

- Tao te ching 

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The Science of Consciousness

Science is the pursuit and application of knowledge and understanding of the natural and social world following a systematic methodology based on evidence.

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What if consciousness isn’t something your brain creates, but a fundamental force of the universe — like gravity?

For decades, mainstream science has operated under the assumption of physicalism — treating the human brain like a computer and consciousness as mere software generated by firing neurons.

However, prominent neuroscientists like Dr. Christof Koch of the Allen Institute and Dr. Nicco Reggente of the Institute for Advanced Consciousness Studies are challenging this materialistic view.

They propose that consciousness is not a byproduct of biological hardware, but rather a fundamental building block of the universe, akin to gravity, mass, or spacetime. By comparing the brain to a radio receiver that interacts with an external signal rather than generating the broadcast itself, these researchers argue that our subjective experience is a gateway to a deeper, universal reality.

If this theory holds true, it completely reframes both cosmological puzzles and the human experience. Major scientific roadblocks — such as "the hard problem" of how physical matter creates subjective feelings — instantly dissolve if consciousness is accepted as foundational.

Instead of asking how matter produces the mind, researchers can ask how the mind structures itself into the appearance of matter. This paradigm shift could also revolutionize medical science, offering a new framework for understanding phenomena like near-death experiences.

If consciousness exists independently of our biological bodies, our final moments may not represent an ending, but rather a return to the fundamental fabric of the cosmos.

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Karma Is...

Karma is like the fruit of a mango tree. The mango will yield the tree and the tree will yield the mango and the cycle continues. - Niruben Amin

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Karma is a key that we may use to organize our lives, rather than endlessly agonizing over the seemingly unexplainable and often unexpected events forming the fabric of our lives.... Karma is not about fate, fatalism, or destiny; nothing is pre-ordained – rather everything is a sequential happening emerging logically from antecedents. Karma is a way of viewing existence that brings about a harmony of both fatalism and free will, resulting in increased mental health and self-responsibility. - Jonn Mumford

Karma is like a magnetic field: it is an invisible tendency that draws bad or good things to a person. Karma doesn't always effect the person who created the karma. The good and bad things can happen to someone near the person, someone who just happened to be in the way. The effect is like a field of karma that emanates from a person. Luck gets worse, or greater, the closer you get to that person. - Brian ST. Claire-King

Karma is like the vine that gathers strength through uninterrupted years, and which fastens its tendrils so closely that it is as strong as the structure to which it adheres. There is no way to destroy its power except by the separation of the parts, these parts renew themselves in other forms of life, but the structure is freed when its root is destroyed. - William Q. Judge

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The Teachings of the Buddha

Just as a candle cannot burn without fire, men cannot live without a spiritual life. - The Buddha

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A man may be an intellectual giant endowed with the power to perceive quickly and express clearly and accurately, but if he pays no attention to his actions and if he is only bent on fulfilling his own longings and inclinations at any cost he is, according to the Buddha, a fool, a man of inferior intelligence and he indeed destroys his own progress here and hereafter. - Unknown

Knowledge is like a deep well, fed by perennial springs, and the mind of man is like a bucket that is dropped into it. He will get as much as he can assimilate. Knowledge and mental self-culture will confer incalculable blessings to man. One third of the ills of man are due to human ignorance, delusions, and superstitious beliefs; the rest of the ills, according to the Dharma, are traceable to human selfishness and human malevolence. – Unknown

For, my friend, in this fathom long body with its sense impressions and its thoughts and ideas, I do declare to you, are the world and the origin of the world and the cessation of the world, and likewise the way that leads to its cessation. Within this fathom long body has the means whereby time and space first came into your consciousness, and within this fathom long body is the means whereby you can pass beyond time and space and find the end of the world and Deathlessness. For friend, these things are not without you; they are within. – Unknown

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