11-05-2013, 09:56 AM
(11-04-2013, 07:08 PM)Brittany Wrote: If this information is valid at all, it seems I have been trapped in a cycle of persecuting others in the name of religious fanaticism, then being victimized by similar fanatics in an attempt to work off the karma.
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I feel that I chose to take on near unbearable challenges in this life in an attempt to completely eradicate my karma, as the time is obviously nigh. However, now I seek to truly end this cycle through understanding and forgiveness. I no longer feel the need to wipe evil from the world, and I no longer feel the need to suffer for crimes I can't even remember. I just want to forgive myself, forgive everyone who harmed me, and finally step off this merry-go-round.
that is some really great personal insight there Britanny.
as the Buddha said: (or close paraphrase)
"everything that one is, is a consequence of what one has thought'.
and those thoughts (read:actions) are not just the thoughts of one lifetime, but the ones that have gone before.
Thinking and Destiny are inextricably intertwined.