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KARMA-
If you overeat, you get fat.
If you routinely disrespect others, you have fewer friends.
If you cultivate kindness, you feel happy.
If you step over the edge of a cliff, you fall.
No one needs a God for all those events to occur.
There is no judgement at all involved in any of them.
There are merely actions followed by consequences.
That is karma.
Some people say wholeness is God. I prefer to say wholeness is wholeness.
Some people say love is God. I prefer to say that love is love.
Some people say goodness is God. I prefer to say that goodness is goodness.
I have a profound respect for wholeness, love and goodness.
And because of that, I have no need for the idea of God, which adds nothing to what I already respect.
"One's only master is oneself.
What other master could there be?"
(Dhammapada 160)
---- Professor Richard Hayes
"May all beings have Godless hearts."
If you overeat, you get fat.
If you routinely disrespect others, you have fewer friends.
If you cultivate kindness, you feel happy.
If you step over the edge of a cliff, you fall.
No one needs a God for all those events to occur.
There is no judgement at all involved in any of them.
There are merely actions followed by consequences.
That is karma.
Some people say wholeness is God. I prefer to say wholeness is wholeness.
Some people say love is God. I prefer to say that love is love.
Some people say goodness is God. I prefer to say that goodness is goodness.
I have a profound respect for wholeness, love and goodness.
And because of that, I have no need for the idea of God, which adds nothing to what I already respect.
"One's only master is oneself.
What other master could there be?"
(Dhammapada 160)
---- Professor Richard Hayes
"May all beings have Godless hearts."