# What Do You Mean by Karma?

- Link: https://legawa.com/something-else/what-do-you-mean-by-karma/
- Published: 2006-11-27T00:54:00+07:00
- Author: Cahya

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    Karma implies, does it not, cause and effect - action based on cause,producing a certain effect; action born out of conditioning, producingfurther results. So karma implies cause and effect. And are cause andeffect static, are cause and effect ever fixed? Does not effect becomecause also? So there is no fixed cause or fixed effect. Today is a resultof yesterday, is it not? Today is the outcome of yesterday,chronologically as well as psychologically; and today is the cause of tomorrow. Socause is effect, and effect becomes cause - it is one continuousmovement: there is no fixed cause or fixed effect. If there were a fixedcause and a fixed effect, there would be specialization; and is notspecialization death? Any species that specializes obviously comes to an end.The greatness of man is that he cannot specialize. He may specializetechnically, but in structure he cannot specialize. An acorn seed isspecialized - it cannot be anything but what it is. But the human beingdoes not end completely. There is the possibility of constant renewal; heis not limited by specialization. As long as we regard the cause, thebackground, the conditioning, as unrelated to the effect, there must beconflict between thought and the background. So the problem is muchmore complex than whether to believe in reincarnation or not, because thequestion is how to act, not whether you believe in reincarnation or inkarma. That is absolutely irrelevant.
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