HAVE A LOVELY WEEKEND

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 Enjoy Life….No matter how hard it may seem…
When life gives you a thousand reasons to cry,
show the world that you have a million reasons to SMILE!!!!
Wish you a Happy Friday and a Memorable Weekend ahead...Stay safe... Angel blessings and love... thankyou for the birthday wishes... much love...

 

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“Once upon a time, there was a wise man who used to go to the ocean to do his writing. He had a habit of walking on the beach before he began his work.

One day, as he was walking along the shore, he looked down the beach and saw a human figure moving like a dancer. He smiled to himself at the thought of someone who would dance to the day, and so, he walked faster to catch up.

As he got closer, he noticed that the figure was that of a young man, and that what he was doing was not dancing at all. The young man was reaching down to the shore, picking up small objects, and throwing them into the ocean.

He came closer still and called out "Good morning! May I ask what it is that you are doing?"

The young man paused, looked up, and replied "Throwing starfish into the ocean."
"I must ask, then, why are you throwing starfish into the ocean?" asked the somewhat startled wise man.

To this, the young man replied, "The sun is up and the tide is going out. If I don't throw them in, they'll die."

Upon hearing this, the wise man commented, "But, young man, do you not realize that there are miles and miles of beach and there are starfish all along every mile? You can't possibly make a difference!"

At this, the young man bent down, picked up yet another starfish, and threw it into the ocean. As it met the water, he said, "It made a difference for that one.”

― Loren Eiseley

 

 

“ None but those who are happy in themselves can make others so. ”

~Eliza Cook

 

 

The 4 Types of Karma By Taryn Galewind

Why You Need to Attend to All of Them

Most of us think we have an idea of what karma is about—there’s good karma and bad, right? While scholars and pundits sometimes confuse us with too much detail, believe it or not, karma is pretty straightforward.

Karma is, at the bottom line, a combination of cause and situation creating results. Like this: A man kicks a dog. We can look at two different situations. Suppose the dog is minding her own business and, BAM, the guy boots her. Not terribly enlightened behavior. But what if the dog is about to attack a small child, and there’s no other way to stop her aggression? This makes the behavior look somewhat better.

So, what we do certainly creates results—and those results are thought of in terms of karma. Why we do what we do mitigates, or directs the karma. Karma is a result, then, that can carry far into the future, even into future lives. So what are teachers talking about when they divide karma into types?

Think in terms of stages of readiness, maybe.

1. Accumulated actions. This is about completed actions across all of your lives, present and past. It explains the sort of energy that surrounds you because of things you’ve done, and a balance is struck between the good things and not-so-good.

2. Actions you’ve set in motion. These are not yet finished—like a boomarang you’ve set in flight that hasn’t yet returned to you. The results are unclear, the circumstances still undefined.

3. Actions being born. This is that favorite of John Lennon: Instant karma. It’s about those acts or actions that are presently, in this life, right under your nose and waiting for you to choose which way you’ll go. Like a bubbling pot—something is going to happen, but until all decisions are made and the heat is turned up or down, it’s too soon to decide what.

4. Future actions or future results. This is the bottom line sum of all you do in your present life. Work off your past debt, and you’ll sail on smoothly. Slough off and ignore your spiritual growth, and the stuff you should have fixed will pile up in your accumulated karma. You can’t escape consequences and will face the same tithe in future lives.

At first glance, it may seem we can be kind of casual about our motives and behaviors. I mean, you’ll have many lifetimes to work it all out, right? Not so fast. It’s probably better to carefully consider your every-day karma and not end up with a heavy burden down the road. From small acorns grow large trees.

[Hippy ✌️]