auntblabby wrote:
on the cosmic carnival ride of life, there are some passengers who seriously rue their act of getting on board, and will be screaming in abject terror for the entire ride, while other passengers on the earthship are smiling happily and laughing derisively at the fretting scare-dy-cats. for the existentially challenged ones, there seriously needs to be a "pause" button, or a temporary "recess" button where the spirit who has had too much of life can retreat and regroup. the way life is arranged now, a spirit who miscalculates and chooses an inappropriate [for their individual level of spiritual development] lifetime in which to incarnate, faces a sheer intractible hellish torture in the manner of a motion-sick person stuck on an endless roller-coaster. i rather like the hindu concept of "walk-ins" in which a more advanced spirit can swap places with the beleagered spirit struggling in an ill-suited incarnation.
Yah, I don't like laughing derisively at those that are facing worst hardship than me, because what if I end up in the same boat in the next transition? Really the fact that others are having a worst time than you should actually cause some existential discomfort, but too many are too blind to see that side of it. In my view, I'll be willing to sacrifice some of my own ego to ensure others don't have it terribly bad. In my view, the issue of Karma is about balancing and harmonizing the whole organism that were all a part of. The fact we can't make any actions, intentionally or inadvertently, without having an effect on the whole should be evidence of this. I haven't heard about walk-ins before. I'll look into that.
28 Jan 2011, 11:19 pm
