Vol. 8. October 9, 2020
Euripides once wrote, “When one with honeyed words but evil mind persuades the mob, great woes befall the state.”
My friends, a presidential election is upon us. The result is sure to cause suffering for some, and happiness for others.
But the result of the election has already been decided by karma — the law of cause and effect.
Karma is predetermined and unchangeable. Karma is immutable reality. It’s inescapable.
Karma comes in two flavors. Short term karma is instant. Be a bitch and some person will be bitchy back to you. Long term karma ripens in a future lifetime.
Seeds planted by the two presidential candidates in previous lifetimes will come to fruition in November.
Whether short or long term, all karma operates according to one principle: do good get good, do bad get bad.
Karma comes from a Sanskrit term meaning “deeds, actions.”
Our deeds are rooted in ignorance. Our actions are based on habitual mental patterns that repeat daily in our lives.
And those actions will reoccur in our future lives. The fruit of our deeds is inescapable.
But is it?
How can we escape karma?
Meditate.
Be the Mirror
Our whole lives we perform actions in front of a mirror.
We accumulate karma without even thinking about it. We ignore not only the result of our actions, but the mirror itself.
The mirror is the mind in meditation.
Don’t jump up and down in front of the mirror like an idiot.
Be the mirror. Meditate.
Be reflective. Be calm. Be present to the moment. Observe each action without judgement.
In meditation, we are free of karma. We are in nirvana.
Buddhas dwell in nirvana. Buddhas see suffering as nirvana because Buddhas are in a constant state of meditation.
If we can maintain our meditation throughout the election, then whoever is elected president we will not suffer.
It may be true that honeyed words from an evil mind can persuade the mob and cause great woe to the state.
But I doubt Euripides ever meditated.
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