Is there any way to avoid Karma?


A human being fashions his consequences as surely as he fashions his goods or his dwelling. Nothing that he says, thinks, or does is without consequences.
                                                                         – Norman Cousins

Galatians 6:7-9(KJV)

"Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting. And let us not be weary in well doing: for in due season we shall reap, if we faint not."


This Judeo-Christian scriptural truth, illustrated by the concept of photosynthesis and growth of vegetation from the Letter to the Galatians, by the founder of Christianity, Saul of Tarsus, nee "Paul", is also even more sharply defined and enumerated in other traditions. 
The Hindu and Buddhist scriptures give us the same general truth in what is called the law of karma, which is the psychological equivalent to the physical law that every action has a reaction equal and opposite to it.
This "law" of reality makes inherently a lot of sense to me, something I never was taught in Sunday School. 
The Buddha says we can fly higher than the heavens or hide in the depths of the earth, but we will not be able to escape the consequences of our actions. Though we drive to another city or fly to another country, though we change our job or our name, our mistakes will pursue us wherever we go.

Paradoxically, the only way we can begin to escape from the consequences of our actions is to stop running from them and to face them with fortitude. 
In this sense, every difficult situation is a precious opportunity. 

When we find ourselves in some situation where we always make the same mistake, if we can manage not to make that mistake, the chain can be broken. 

Often, if we face it squarely, that situation will not come up again.

One can hope.






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