Serious KARMA question

BTW, I think what the karma would be is if you knowingly killed the grasshopper then you would suffer karmic effects in this or some future life.

So if you kill somebody in this life, then in some future life you will die at a young age or not live a full life. It really doesn't have anything to do with anyone else but you.

That is want Ven. Choyki says anyway.

BTW, I think what the karma would be is if you knowingly killed the grasshopper then you would suffer karmic effects in this or some future life.

So if you kill somebody in this life, then in some future life you will die at a young age or not live a full life. It really doesn't have anything to do with anyone else but you.

That is want Ven. Choyki says anyway.


That is so unfair. I've knowingly killed TONS of Ants and Cokroaches. I also DID step on a grasshopper once. Not really deliberately---it "got in the way."
Does that mean I will suffer in my next lifetime???
All Plant is also "alive." Am I suffering for that, too??? Sheesh.

OP, um you do realize that a fish probably died because it was the crickets destiny to feed it right? Poor starving fish. Good luck in hell asshole!

OP, um you do realize that a fish probably died because it was the crickets destiny to feed it right? Poor starving fish. Good luck in hell asshole!


Funny, that is also what I thought.

As soon as I picked it up I wondered if there was a fish doing a 'Jaws' type move to eat it.

Poor fish "hey, where'd lunch go... i'm soo hungry" :)

I wish all animals could survive easily, but then also figure the planet would be massively over-populated by humans and animals.

Also, what purpose do fleas, parasites, mosquitoes, etc serve?

I hate being bitten, and try to get fleas and ticks off my cats and dogs, but I suppose the fleas and ticks are hungry too.

I saw a doco on a mosquito outbreak and millions stung a single cow and literally drained every drop of blood from the cow - stung it's eyes as well.

Nature really is a dog-eat-dog world.

karma, like death, does not exist.

just more control lies.

Ok, i'm a pretty big believer in karma - for myself anyway - I have learned to change negative thoughts and actions into positive because, well, I always notice 'reaping' the consequences of negative thoughts and actions.

BUT

I saved a grasshopper from drowning in the creek the other day and am now wondering:

The chances of me seeing and helping it were pretty low - just accidentally saw ripples, looked closer and saved the little hopper.

Was I supposed to save it or let nature take it's course without putting 'what I want' into the picture and changing the course of events?

Does my action mean:

1. To balance, another creature has to drown?
2. To balance, someone I know has to drown?
3. To balance, I must drown?
4. To balance, another creature has to save me from drowning?
5. To balance, I must 'let' something drown?

I'm not that worried, but how the heck does 'karma' balance all the variables???

Serious question, anyone?

Ok, i'm a pretty big believer in karma - for myself anyway - I have learned to change negative thoughts and actions into positive because, well, I always notice 'reaping' the consequences of negative thoughts and actions.

BUT

I saved a grasshopper from drowning in the creek the other day and am now wondering:

The chances of me seeing and helping it were pretty low - just accidentally saw ripples, looked closer and saved the little hopper.

Was I supposed to save it or let nature take it's course without putting 'what I want' into the picture and changing the course of events?

Does my action mean:

1. To balance, another creature has to drown?
2. To balance, someone I know has to drown?
3. To balance, I must drown?
4. To balance, another creature has to save me from drowning?
5. To balance, I must 'let' something drown?

I'm not that worried, but how the heck does 'karma' balance all the variables???

Serious question, anyone?

Ok, i'm a pretty big believer in karma - for myself anyway - I have learned to change negative thoughts and actions into positive because, well, I always notice 'reaping' the consequences of negative thoughts and actions.

BUT

I saved a grasshopper from drowning in the creek the other day and am now wondering:

The chances of me seeing and helping it were pretty low - just accidentally saw ripples, looked closer and saved the little hopper.

Was I supposed to save it or let nature take it's course without putting 'what I want' into the picture and changing the course of events?

Does my action mean:

1. To balance, another creature has to drown?
2. To balance, someone I know has to drown?
3. To balance, I must drown?
4. To balance, another creature has to save me from drowning?
5. To balance, I must 'let' something drown?

I'm not that worried, but how the heck does 'karma' balance all the variables???

Serious question, anyone?



The act of attraction brought it to you...it was natural right action. Doesn't sound like you were coming from "ego".

OP, um you do realize that a fish probably died because it was the crickets destiny to feed it right? Poor starving fish. Good luck in hell asshole!

Friends and I had a big bonfire once years ago.

Didn't realise a family of mice or rats had moved in during the weeks of building up the wood and scrap.

All the blokes were laughing watching all these little 'fire-balls' running out of the fire screaming - all the gals were nearly in tears.

Was like a surreal nightmare - all the laughing and their faces of my friends looked extra scary due to the flames.

OP, um you do realize that a fish probably died because it was the crickets destiny to feed it right? Poor starving fish. Good luck in hell asshole!



Your karma is magnifying, and that isn't a good thing.

OK, let's put this in perspective. While OP saved a little fuck'n cricket, 300 black people hacked up 150 other black people with machetes in Darfur...Haitians are probably back to eating mud cookies and another 30,000 people have just lost their jobs in OP's home town...FUCK THE CRICKET, may he jumped in the water to kill himself!!

Yeah, what about ants, cockroaches, fleas, mozzies and all the rest of those nasty irritating bugs. I've killed millions of them in my lifetime and the only reason is because they were invading my space and being a pain in the arse. I don't LOOK to kill them.

So what happens then?

OK, let's put this in perspective. While OP saved a little fuck'n cricket, 300 black people hacked up 150 other black people with machetes in Darfur...Haitians are probably back to eating mud cookies and another 30,000 people have just lost their jobs in OP's home town...FUCK THE CRICKET, may he jumped in the water to kill himself!!


I understand that - plus all the genocides/murders/rapes/etc that occur daily.

I guess you just do what you can, tho - I live nowhere near all the worst stuff that happens on this planet (thankfully - but in a previous life, who knows?).

I do feel for everyone that has 'evil' stuff happening to themselves and families - but at the same time i'd just be another statistic like them if I were there.

Sadly, most of the time the cause for all the atrocities is usually money or religion - and even in an upstanding church in an upstanding town you have the possibility of being hacked to death if you 'go against' what 'they' say.

Serious question, anyone?

Ok, i'm a pretty big believer in karma - for myself anyway - I have learned to change negative thoughts and actions into positive because, well, I always notice 'reaping' the consequences of negative thoughts and actions.

BUT

I saved a grasshopper from drowning in the creek the other day and am now wondering:

The chances of me seeing and helping it were pretty low - just accidentally saw ripples, looked closer and saved the little hopper.

Was I supposed to save it or let nature take it's course without putting 'what I want' into the picture and changing the course of events?

Does my action mean:

1. To balance, another creature has to drown?
2. To balance, someone I know has to drown?
3. To balance, I must drown?
4. To balance, another creature has to save me from drowning?
5. To balance, I must 'let' something drown?

I'm not that worried, but how the heck does 'karma' balance all the variables???

Serious question, anyone?