| THE BEST MEDICINEf- LAUGH! FIRST DOSE There are always two ways to look at everything, I guess. My wife and I were sitting at a table at my high school reunion last October, and I kept staring at a drunken lady swigging her drink as she sat alone at a nearby table. My wife noticed me staring and asked me, "Do you know her?". "Yes", I sighed, "She's my old girlfriend. I understand she took to drinking right after we split up those many years ago, and I hear she hasn't been sober since." "My God!" says my wife, "Who would think a person could go on celebrating that long?" Got a Joke? E-mail it to us: frontpage@collectivewizdom .com |
| THE BEST MEDICINE- LAUGH! SECOND DOSE Last night, my friend and I were sitting in the living room and I said to her, "I never want to live in a vegetative state, dependent on some machine and fluids from a bottle. If that ever happens, just pull the plug." She got up, unplugged the TV, and threw out my wine |
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By Mark S. Mays, Associate Editor and Featured Columnist
"That's karma". We've all heard that phrase a millon times.
It's usually accompanied by a shrug of the shoulders and an
expression on the face that says, "that's the way it is. I can't
do anything about it". But is there anything we can do to
improve our karma.?
If we look at karma as our fate, and we look at fate as
immutable, then there really is nothing we can do to change
it. When we in America say "fate", we mean that something
high above us has taken out a giant pen and written down
what our outcomes will be on a tablet called "YOUR LIFE".
But that is not the view of fate in the religion of Buddhism,
which gave rise to the idea of karma in the first place. In
Buddhism, the brand called Nishirin Daishinen, fate is not
what we are helplessly subjected to.
Fate is like a piece of clay. We make ourselves by the
collection of thoughts, words and deeds into what we are
today. We are the product, the consequence, of our
collective causes. But, here's the other part, the part most
of us don't pay attention to about karma. Just as we created
our present selves by our past thoughts, words and deeds,
we can create our future selves by our present and future
thoughts, words and deeds.
In other words, good in, good out. Good in today, good out
tomorrow.
One thing that's always troubled me about karma is that it
seems to fly in the face of innocence. What did the baby in
poverty do to "cause" their birth into poverty? What did the
helpless young child do to cause abide? How can they be
punished for a past not of their creation?
Like everything else, I commit this cake to the universe to
complete its baking. I don't know the answer to this
question. But here may be a clue. Maybe it's that we, those
of us who are adults, who are not mere innocents, maybe
we are being tested in our karma whenever we learn of such
poverty, such pain, such abuse. Maybe these babies, and
their pain, can be turned to a purpose of saving them and
restoring them to health and happiness, thereby elevating
their karma and our own.
Just a thought.
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