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Today's
Meditation:
The world seems to have changed in the last couple of
decades-- or has it been just me? Sometimes I feel
that I see that people are much less aware of this fact of life,
that things do come back to us, and much more willing to
act as if it weren't true. It may not be true, but
personally, I don't want to risk the possibility that it
is true by acting as if it weren't. I accept the
responsibility of making sure that all that I say and do
is something that I would actually want coming back to me,
and therefore I look to do all the good that I can.
It really is just a matter of saying a kind word when I'm
tempted to say something biting or insulting; not
committing the act that my conscience tells me I shouldn't
commit; not giving up when I'm tempted to not try to go
any further. I'm not completely sure of what Karma
actually means-- to me or to others-- but I do believe that
it's a principle based on truth. The beauty of being
aware of our own actions, though, is not in avoiding bad
Karma-- the beauty is that the more we own our
responsibility, the easier and more natural it is to live
up to it.
There's nothing that can substitute for us taking full
responsibility for our own actions and words and
deeds. And as we do so more and we begin to see how
they come back to us, it becomes much easier to make the
right decisions when we are faced with decisions. It
isn't just a good idea to live up to our responsibilities
and to carry them with dignity and strength-- it's a good
way of life, one that will help us to make our lives very
positive indeed.
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Questions to
consider:
Why is it easy sometimes to say and do things without
realizing that they will come back to us someday, somehow?
What does it mean to you to "own" your
responsibility?
When was the last time that something that you said or did
came back to you, in either a positive or negative
way? How did that feel?
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