reflections on karma and practising unconditional love in the real world

Giving and recieving - image from Wikipedia

The discussion about Unconditional Love and Dark Beings is continuing on the Evolver-forum, and someone asked me how does living in unconditional love – or True Love as I call it – fit with living in the real world, without be taken advantage of. He continued saying that Karma is such an un-fair idea, that he detested the idea that we are suffering as a punishment for something that we have done earlier, and wondered if one then should tell a victim of abuse that they are just learning a lesson which they deserve and should love their abuser. Here some reflections on this:

When it comes to Karma, I think that this is a very misused concept, trivialized into some kind of punishment circle by our dominant institutions. How do we know that it is a punishment for a soul to suffer? Seriously – how do we know anything? How can we be sure that even the worst murderer cannot be “faster” (in the time dimension) enlightened that you, because suddenly it says click in this Being?

This is not at all saying that I promote that people should suffer, or murder, but that we really do not know anything for sure while walking in this Existence. Therefore I think that interpreting Karma is a very tricky issue easy to be mistaken on, even for an Enlightened Being, I imagine. I think that as A Being one is always “limited” to (or blessed with) interpreting of the Experienced, and no matter how accurate they are, these interpretations will always be faulty.

When it comes to interacting with other people I see it best to act according to our nature – which I believe to be True Love in Freedom, and here in this Existence we are evolving to exist as One-and-Apart in True Love. Please bare with me through abstract thoughts and I’ll get back to the practical ones:

Put into words, I believe that we were once One True Love and we wanted to Experience Loving. But only a truly free and thus open Being can vibrate in True Love, and the different Universes – Existence – are experiments around finding this. To do that we split up in unique pieces, free pieces – this is difficult, and I think what we Experience here on Earth right now is “finding our way” – which means making a lot of mistakes.

I think every time you walk into life you go through this transformation of being One becoming One-and-Apart, including when you go through a re-birth process while living, you re-experience this process. I see these re-experiences as steps in refining this process as a whole – and the “goal” is to Love each other, all the time, truly, even if we are a part.

At the same time, we are always at “the goal” – One-and-Apart in True Love as well as True Love as One, since at one level Time does NOT exist. I by the way believe that Experience always exists, and can be achieved with our without time.

By the way – do you know that there are scientists in theoretical physics that think that we are creating our Universe by sending signals back to the time to before the big bang, where all laws of physics brake down? This is what I am talking about – maybe this is how we create our reality, finding the way to express, vibrate in True Love with each other. I wrote more about this here, just some notes really:
https://florries.wordpress.com/2010/03/06/on-creating-reality-by-our-thou…

So – now finally =) – on a practical level this perspective brings with it the consequence that one can see how everyone are struggling to find their way to Freedom to get to vibrate in True Love – we all feel this way. And since we all feel this way, no one is really doing anything wrong or bad – they are just expressing “problems in our system” that need to be met.

Facing this can be difficult, and one can need help with it, and I think we should help each other in such situations and see it as an exercise in reaching freedom in True Love. In doing so, we promote our own True Nature. Therefore someone who is suffering is not only learning, but giving us an example – and a chance to help someone to freedom. Through helping we them we also help ourselves to freedom, not only because we are one but because such an experience can be very illuminating and help you understand your own process.

Now, with “someone who is suffering” I mean both “victims” and “offenders”, since they are both suffering from not being Free in True Love, although they might need to be helped/supported/inspired in different ways to become free. Maybe sometimes people even will be locked up because others experience them as too much harm – and I see no real bad thing in doing that. But imagine for a second a prison system who is inspired from seeing All as One in Unconditional, True Love – a place which truly works with love and compassion to free its inhabitants from beings slaves under their disturbed emotions…

So do we “deserve” the suffering we get in life? I think basically that we only deserve True Love and Freedom, in transformative peace. But I believe that on one level we have chosen to go through this process to become One-and-Apart in True Love.

I am writing on a theory called The Theory of the Blooming Society and the Positive Multitude which talks about this in a more scientific way, using deductive logical argumentation and science to talk about what we gain on loving each other

– so “I’ll be back” like we say in Austria – quite soon actually =)

I accept that the answer to the question “who am I?” is eternal

being the best at being a unique being

All beings are unique.

This gives that a particular being can only be “the best at” being the unique being that this particular being is.

How can you compare yourself to others if everyone are unique? Sure, comparisons can be interesting, for example, they can help you see in which areas  your talents are the strongest, or what is better or not so good for you under given circumstances, but there are no guaranties for that.

To really compare two things to each other fairly to decide who is the best in some aspect, they would be required to be tested under the same circumstances and well, considering the fact that all beings are unique and that we all experience everything in a unique way, according to my opinion, this is as close to impossible as something can get.

A good example is taste in music, which is so obviously unique for every individual. We might consider a piece of music good or bad, but something that I dislike can be a fantastic experience to someone else. There might even be music that most of us consider horrible, lets say an unfinished, falsely played cereal commercial to choose an extreme. Hearing even this tune might for a particular person be an enlightening musical experience, and if it can be that, can it not then, under given circumstance, be the best for someone? In one aspect “the best”?!

What does that say about being “the best”?

Look, if a piece of music wins a competition, it doesn’t necessarily mean that this is the best piece of music in that competition, but more that it was the piece of music that most of the jury liked at that given moment in time. Ok, lets take another example. Lets take a running competition. If a runner wins a race in an arena at a given moment, it shows just that – this runner was fastest at that given moment in time under those circumstances. But does that make this runner the best runner of those who participated in the race? No, it doesn’t, because the runners are all unique; someone of them might have had a bad day another might be insecure, yet another might be really fast but haven’t developed their technique yet…

I think that one could reason like this around any competition or comparison etc which should decide who is the best. Yet, in our society, we are told to be the best, find the best, buy the best, every day; as if this was possible at all. How come? What effects does this have on us?

It is a true Sisyphus tale – you know, the guy who in Greek mythology who forever has to push a stone up a hill just to see it roll down again right before he reach the top –

trying to be the best or finding the best is a pointless task that can never be achieved, even if we try eternally…

except for when we do what is natural for us: being the best at being ourselves.

We are all the best at being the unique being who we are.

sisyphus on vase from nekyia (wikipedia)
sisyphus on vase from nekyia (wikipedia)

Wolfram|Alpha

Since the first post on the Theory of the blooming society and the positive multitude is about knowledge, and this post is not ready yet… I decided that in the meanwhile, I will instead post a strong recommendation and celebration of this newly released, fantastic homepage/project:

Wolfram|Alpha!

This, quoting their own homepage, is:

… the first step in an ambitious, long-term project to make all systematic knowledge immediately computable by anyone. You enter your question or calculation, and Wolfram|Alpha uses its built-in algorithms and growing collection of data to compute the answer.

It was created by  Stephen Wolfram, a “distinguished scientist, inventor, author and business leader”. It is free of charge and seems to be using correct sources, I hope it continues that way… It also has an amazing capacity, according their blog it will be able to handle

… 175 million queries (yielding maybe a billion) per day—over 5 billion queries (encompassing around 30 billion calculations) per month.

The spreading of knowledge to everyone is like this is an important, beautiful and fantastic gift to humanity. It can lead to many good things. The free access of knowledge lies at the very foundations of a prosperous, democratic world. Access to knowledge liberates and can make the human being better, smarter and more accepting of others.

Sokrates said

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

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The access to a large variety of knowledge from many different sources often brings this insight after a while I think, if you have an open mind toward it of course. But then again, positive/constructive learning often opens your mind.

I also think that the more you learn, the more you realize that you

a) cannot hold all knowledge in your head, so you have to rely on others to know things

b) the knowledge that is out there is cannot assure us 100% accuracy in practically anything.

So we know nothing in the end. But still, learning and acquiring more knowledge in many cases lead to a state of humbleness towards the knowledge of others; at least on a theoretical level, when we are on our own. In face to face arguments with others we often become competitive, and in our days knowledge is key to be a winner, so one might often feel that one has to know best…

But in either case, I think in the long run, knowledge brings larger understanding and acceptance of others, which brings peace, and peace brings prosperity – a prosperous, peaceful society enables a good life and the free flow of love…

All in all; thumbs up for Wolfram|Alpha!