Time-Release Trouble

That’s a load of bad karma.
It’s not just our bad karma;
we have to put with others’ as well!

On a personal level, the trouble we experience was created by our past decisions and reactions. Our future will be the same, if we don’t change in the present. This is karma at work: “As we sow, so we reap”. It’s something of our own making that we have to deal with. But there is another possible cause of our troubles, and that’s others’ karma. If we have karma, other people have karma – and as a collective, the dominant karma will rule, even though it is our own reactions that create our karma. We do tend to live in individual bubbles, but there is a collective froth – a foam of 😉 confusion

The reason I reintroduce this topic now and again is because, as spiritual people, we have to be aware of the suffering of others, and the causes of that suffering, which goes beyond mere personal ignorance. People are not living on an even playing field; it has a bias to it. When spiritual people sit on their cushions, enjoying their own company, they can lack empathy and compassion for ordinary people.

Because of bad, or mistaken, or stupid or deliberate actions by those in positions of power, a chain reaction of events occurs, which compounds over a period of time…Time-Release Trouble. In the Kali Yuga (the age of strife), all this is not only possible, it’s inevitable. At the moment, the dynamics of selfishness are too unbalanced to change this: there are far more selfish people on the planet than are not.

There those who are in power (those in the news and those hidden from the news) that make decisions which are intended to have long-term effects. These effects accumulate over generations, each generation feeding into society to the next generation. This comes in the form of propaganda and law, and it becomes part of our way of life or culture, to which we consent. It’s a sort of social virus.

This generates a knock-on effect. Have you noticed toxins in our food? Have you seen people’s waist lines? Have you experienced how difficult it is to lose weight? Have you noticed how much stress is created? Have you noticed how much illness is created? Have you noticed that we live longer and how many pills we take? Have you noticed how much unnecessary money we spend? Have you noticed how the elderly are treated? Are we just guinea pigs?

Someone is making a lot of money from our suffering!

Our attention span has become shortened and psychologists know how much we can suffer without noticing a cause. Hegelian dialectics are in operation – problem, reaction solution. Create a problem, wait for a reaction, come up with the intended solution. The effects are gradual and multiple so the cause is difficult to pinpoint, hiding the true source of disfunction. As long as people are reacting, they are being controlled!

Problems make money. To make money, control is needed. To have control, confusion in needed. When people are confused, they are weak, and that’s how you make money. This perpetuates samsara in the Kali Yuga, and creates a heap of bad karma for the future for those with selfish intent.

Like everything else, this has a very good side. When pointed out, it’s easy to see. If we are aware of what is going on – to put it bluntly, this is corruption of our true nature of loving kindness – we drop our need to conform, and know when we have enough.

Desire has a good side.
We desire freedom from our own karma, and that of others.