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कर्म (Karma) A Hypothetical Question About Your Life Thus Far: Reward v Punishment

Is your life reward of punishment?

  • 1- punishment

    Votes: 1 7.1%

  • 2

    Votes: 1 7.1%

  • 3

    Votes: 2 14.3%

  • 4

    Votes: 1 7.1%

  • 5- balance

    Votes: 4 28.6%

  • 6

    Votes: 1 7.1%

  • 7

    Votes: 1 7.1%

  • 8

    Votes: 1 7.1%

  • 9

    Votes: 2 14.3%

  • 10-reward

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Total voters
    14
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कर्म (Karma) A Hypothetical Question About Your Life Thus Far: Reward v Punishment

Namaste
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Consider the karmic wheel as granted for the purpose of this thread. In essence, every action you take in this life has an ethical equal and opposite reaction in future lives. Instead of discussing the merits and possible mechanisms of such a thing, let's take a proper look at ourselves and ask, sincerely, if this current life is reward or punishment. We all have our ups and downs, so mods please make a poll with a scale of 1-10, punishment at one end and reward at the other.

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consider your age and experience thus far. has your life truly been difficult? has it genuinely been a dream? could it have been worse, or better? rate your life.
 
^well, then let me be the first to say it has been a pleasure to spend i don't recall how many lives in coincidental existence, and congratulations for your imminent escape from the wheel of life. the true middle is winning the game. <3
 
So 1 is punishment and 10 is reward?

In that case I would have to say 4 maybe 3.5. I say this because there has been parts of my life where I definitely felt like I was being punished for nothing. Like somehow I was paying for either past life sins (I don't believe in Karma or sins for that matter but for the sake of the thread) or for the sins of my father/extended family.

Other times I felt like I was punishing myself for whatever reason. But in the end however shitty my life got sometimes there was always something that brought me back up. I know that a lot of people have it worse off than me, and I have had happiness in my life so I can't say I've been punished all that much.
 
Who cares about personal judgements :D

Is there an ice symbol on this wheel of theirs--does purgatory translate into karma-nese?
 
L2R said:
^well, then let me be the first to say it has been a pleasure to spend i don't recall how many lives in coincidental existence, and congratulations for your imminent escape from the wheel of life. the true middle is winning the game. <3
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pleased as pudding

:D

you see they are in the bed, ready to hit the dogstar to the godhead.

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i thought there was ice too ?


<3
 
i have had a good 52, almost 53 years. I don't know if everything always worked itself out because I believed or if I believed because troubles worked themselves out.

I have learned through being unemployed to want what I have, enjoy what is mine, and be mindful to cultivate peace, now moreso than ever.

If you have seen me write anything on BL before, you might have got the feeling that I was a slut. I was, if "slut" means a woman who still has a youthful zest for sex, I'm all slut. I did not have the moral strength to stop having sex when my husband's health began to fail. That's changed too.

I'm also completely unfuckable. I had to face the fact that after 53, I FULLY enter the unfuckable age bracket. I have good memories though and was granted a lovely parade of men to come into and out of my life and I have to say 80% of them were a joy to get naked with.

Since the vast majority of my experience has been delightful, I rate my life a 5. I don't want to do the karma wheel even though it appeals to my sensibilities. My idea of hell is going through all those lessons again. Over and over.

No way, no way do I want to revisit this earth once I'm free of it. I do not disbelieve in karma. I just get panic attacks and claustrophobia thinking about coming back here, all the developmental stages of a child, the shock of adolescence, teen age drama, then marriage and four kids, then finishing college, then getting hired, getting fired, being sexually and professionally out of the loop.

My life has been good, and I am fortunate, and thankful for this life, but I politely decline going through life again. If the karma wheel drags me into the light one more time, you can bet I'll be the very active baby fighting against my own birth and trying to tie a noose with the umbilical cord.
 
Being here on earth already is a punishment,
what is karma? i myself am karma of my eternal "I" , of my past lives and my deeds..
 
Tough question. Asking someone to score their life isn't going to tell you much. There will be aspects which score 1 and other aspects that score 10 and so on, then you have to rate the aspects upon how important they are to you.

I've been aimlessly meandering around for near enough 50 years if that has any bearing whatsoever


That said I vote 5.5 :)
 
chinup said:
polled up. i chose 2. but my life has been perfect, its just me who wasn't. i have this fatalistic thing that totally isn't me (in terms of not believing in fate and generally being a rationalist) that i was born to suffer. i make everything more difficult for myself than i need to.

its hard looking at my family history not to think that suffering is some how an integral part of my being, i'm a product of it. in two generations the cycle of majority of most of family massacred, flee with the clothes on your back, make new family, repeated twice and the psychological damage of this impacted on the following generations. though i've never thought of it as karma, more like passing down a family heirloom.
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Sounds like a curse chinster.

I am what I think I am.

I think the words you choose to describe your reality and the perceptions you chose to have of them can be either blessings or curses.

Im blessed. I am Blessed!!

Blessings to you beautiful one.
 
B9 said:
Tough question. Asking someone to score their life isn't going to tell you much. There will be aspects which score 1 and other aspects that score 10 and so on, then you have to rate the aspects upon how important they are to you.

I've been aimlessly meandering around for near enough 50 years if that has any bearing whatsoever


That said I vote 5.5 :)
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hehe yeah !
he meanders round and round and round and round and round


=D
 
now that i've thought about this some, and it is indeed a hard question. that's why i like it. instinctually, i feel like the low end score would apply. it's my first reaction considering the very trying times i've had and am currently still going through. but then it occurred to me, most if not all of my hardships are of my own doing. to be completely honest, i tend to land in better situations and opportunities when i don't get what i want. it's like i could be completely blessed if only i could only not fight it as much. often, i find when i desire something, it comes to me in its own way. it's kind of weird.

i voted 8
 
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