Spirituality Guide

I had an online conversation recently on the Karma subject and found out how (apparently) confused I am. Other people joined in & it appears that many people aren’t as confused as I am because they all have very definite ideas as to what Karma is – the fact their ideas are backed by certainty and different each from the other seems to escape their notice.

I’m not sure I understand why karma should be a difficult thing to understand. It seems to be either (depending on to whom you speak) a reward/punishment system or a balancing system or a keep you on track system. I don’t think the system itself is complex so much as those who believe in it seem to advocate their favoured version of it.

But the whole ‘emotions’ subject is a strange one if we begin to separate out the being & the body. Maybe we need a new definition - how about emotions are the body thing that is linked into peptides & the basic brain & autonomous nervous system & the equivalent ‘feelings’ for the being we can call ‘Values’ rather than getting confused between the setup we arrive here with & that engendered by being within the chemical system of the body.

That way, we can have emotions which are attached to experience & which we, ideally, should use as extra information coming in with the event data, & we have values which come as part of the considered (or not :grin:) response to the event.

So, because of an event when we are children, we may feel anger when something similar happens to us as adults. The emotion is anger, but the spiritual emotion, the value we use to react might be indignation as our core inner values are violated, or it might be amusement as we recognise how we might have been manipulated had we not seen how the event pushed against our sense of fair play.

So emotions are things which we should be able to stand away from, to consider simply as additional information in our responses, while values can be a basic to our character, a colouring of our personality that comes from the lives we’ve led & maybe the mix of beingness we came here with.