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| Light versus Dark Harlech beach 2012 |
Freedom of Choice is a human blessing, or curse dependent on your views. I believe much of what we blame 'God' for, and a great deal of our own suffering is purely the logical outcome of our using freedom of choice...badly.
I cannot believe the human soul needs to choose to learn how it feels to be murdered, tortured, starve to death. Because that is truly what Karma is saying, that the past actions of a six month old baby starving to death is of its own cause, its own fault. That the baby may be the victim of something its soul enacted in a previous life, which it is paying for in this life....doesn't fit into my perception of human spiritual growth and its need to evolve.
I believe there is such a thing as destiny, I do believe if we do something awful, 9 times out of 10 it will catch us up and we end up having to learn the lessons attached to that action, not as karma so much as a result of , human behaviour and the complexities of the human condition.
I do however believe in a Tynged (Welsh) ,which is more commonly known by the Irish"Doom, Fate, Destiny".a Geis or Geas which is an obligation, a curse, a blessing, a path......which a person can have gifted them,cursed them. Of course this can come to mean many things in life, by being responsible for our own actions it is possible to see how some of our actions could have been better chosen, better enacted. Tynged is the choice of response, not the situation.
How would one then understand a doom, it is not necessarily a doom of great sorrows, one may be doomed to live in a town when the heart wants the country...the doom can only be lifted by seeing the need to move to a place of greater tranquillity and then the Tynged becomes a challenge to obtain that freedom. But it is challenge-able, it CAN change.
A man can change his stars!
Destiny can and does place much in our paths the lesson is always to understand the freedom of choice in how we accept or deny that destiny or that fate. Unless, other humans have intervened and impinged slavery or dominance, by their own choices they are doing this to another human. That makes them evil, and vile humans. Which needs to be addressed by other humans. It is not caused by God or Gods, it is caused by mankind's greed or desire to dominate. Blaming God for such actions is unfair on God. Freedom of will is the culprit.
The acts of nature which cause a tree to fall and kill someone is not a fate, a destiny or a doom, it is an act of nature.
Someone doing something horrible to you is not fate, destiny or doom either, it is that persons freedom of will which has been exerted on you...the lesson possibly being that you were aware they where a nasty individual, or a crafty individual and could have halted such an act by forethought and preparation or actions of your own.
If that were not true, if you were truly weaker and in a situation were you are unable to choose your own responses then you have been enslaved. That is political, it is human dominance and again...not Gods fault, human kinds fault. With no personal responsibility to answer too, no correction of their behaviour the dominant person has become a tyrant. That is not Gods Fault either.
To be murdered, raped, robbed, is not your fate it is another human being enacting their own freedom of will , it is not the Gods province, it is a Human province and the need for better policing, education or whatever else would provide a safer world is for humans to create of their own free will.
This is a very small amount of information concerning Tynged, it is a matter which has caused many discussions over many years and still is not fully understood in its entirety. As an example many would say that becoming a victim of someone else's behaviour is not 'fair' and it isn't, but it is still human and as such the humans province. To choose not to be the victim of a nasty human deed is to choose to fight for your rights for instance, or see a solicitor or speak the truth in a public place and so many other diverse actions...but they are human not divine.
WHY I DON'T BELIEVE IN KARMA
Because karma is a term loosely used it is not fully understood by western culture and is invoked as 'they will get their karma'The Bhuddist tradition of karma is the following :-
In this world nothing happens to a person that he does not for some reason or other deserve. Usually, men of ordinary intellect cannot comprehend the actual reason or reasons. The definite invisible cause or causes of the visible effect is not necessarily confined to the present life, they may be traced to a proximate or remote past birth.
According to Buddhism, this inequality is due not only to heredity, environment, "nature and nurture", but also to Karma. In other words, it is the result of our own past actions and our own present doings. We ourselves are responsible for our own happiness and misery. We create our own Heaven. We create our own Hell. We are the architects of our own fate.
And I cannot believe that a child deserves to be starved to death or that the child caused itself to be starved to death, or that a woman deserves to be raped because she did something so awful in a past life she does not remember;to be raped and all the other many horrors mankind perpetrates upon each other.
Would any rational being actually choose to have acid thrown in their face, have their skin melt into an unrecognisable form and live a life of such painful and debilitating aspects. Would a rational human soul actually choose to return to this earth knowing they will be raped, sodomised, butchered, used, abused, tortured,starve to death by the time they are 3 months old ? how would a soul of that age in a body that age learn anything at all. It pre - supposes that the soul will turn to its soul state having understood the pain (when the human body cuts out at a certain level and becomes unconscious) at 3 months of age, before it could possibly have any human capabilities of anything much beyond 'feed me', 'give me a cuddle'. I don't disbelieve that Karma is a very real status and concept of belief in an age old religion, adhered too by many. Nor do I think this 'as a belief' has no place within that religion. I just think the fact so many 'cherry pick' without truly understanding what they are accepting is damaging to the eventual growth of both understanding and evolving.
I am not so much unconvinced, as unwilling to follow a concept without understanding it much more than I do currently. My personal understanding at present, is limited to researching the concepts, trying to discuss with true followers of religions that have karma as part of its structure. I understand Tynged, accept it is part of my human condition, that at some point, events will happen and as a result other events will evolve. But I am not blaming God, and I do know...I have to think before I make my choices as to what is the likely consequences of my actions. Personal Responsibility.
God did not make me 'do' anything, freedom of my own will...does. As a result of my actions, other things will happen. My fault;mea culpa. Not fate or destiny, not Gods fault, my own. Uncomfortable to think of sometimes, but truthful. My choices make me who I am and what happens , even out of the blue stuff, can more often than not, be traced back to a previous action. Not always but mostly and when it is almost 'fateful' as I perceive it, then my Tynged is working for me, and it is time to apply the lessons of my own remembered past, the wisdom of my elders and the observations of my world to be put together and of my own free will..........I choose my actions knowing there will be a reaction as a result.
