DOES KARMA CONDEMN US ALL TO SIN?

Your reap what you sow.

An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.

Shit in, shit out.

What goes around comes around.

You made your bed. Now lie in it.

In a word--karma. Positive actions have positive consequences. Negative actions have negative consequences. It is a logical equation.

I'm not a spiritual person. Raised a Catholic and an avid reader of the Bible, it's all mythology to me. Many humans can't accept the ephemeral essence of their existences. They create gods and everlasting scenarios to deal with their paranoia about dying. 

Others embrace their brief time on earth as a fact and have no problems accepting that they emerged from nothing and will return to nothing. They express their gratitude for their short stay and simply go with the flow when they are swept away.

But I do believe in karma. It may be nothing more than the infallible laws of cause and effect, action and reaction, but those who believe in heaven, hell and purgatory, all three thrive here on earth.

For my good acts, I know I have been blessed with rewards. And for my bad acts, I have been punished for my excesses. 

I don't consider myself evil. Therefore, I have enjoyed a pleasant and fulfilling life for the most part. But I have paid, many times ten-fold, for my transgressions. Sometimes I feel the wrath of my misdeeds immediately and sometimes I may not face judgement for a half century.

I have hurt people because there is a greedy and selfish side to my nature. As a result, I have been sentenced to pay for my wrongdoings. 

But I'm curious about this phenomenon. Should those who hurt me as part of my retribution be castigated too since it was part of their destiny to bring me to justice? Is this entire process nothing but a vicious circle in which all of us are condemned to suffer at the expense of each other? 

Was it my fault I hurt others who had hurt others before me? Is it others' faults who hurt me in a reciprocal system that seemingly preordains us to inflicting sorrow on each other in this circle that keeps us going round and round? 

In the end are we innocent of premeditation? Like Jesus, were we sent here to die for our brethren's sins and we are powerless to escape a responsibility that has been imposed on us? And in the process of me exacting a culprit's just due, is another condemned for my iniquitous actions and this chain of events continues as long as man inhabits this planet?

Should we be more forgiving or are we little more than instruments of vengeance? I could have gone to mass today, but I chose to write my own sermon that I may read to the congregation at The Church of the Crazy Christ next week.

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