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Goooooooood morning, Cicely!
It's Chris in the Morning coming at you from the KBHR studio in beautiful downtown Cicely, Alaska - 57AM on the dial. For some reason, I was thinking of karma when I awoke this morning.

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Is karma just a disconnected cosmic happenstance, or does it have more to do with principles we all know and understand, like causality? Now, I'm no lawyer, but If we refer to the Brihadaranyaka texts of ancient Hinduism, I think I could make a compelling defense for the latter.

To wit,

"Now as a man is like this or like that,
according as he acts and according as he behaves, so will he be;
a man of good acts will become good, a man of bad acts, bad;
he becomes pure by pure deeds, bad by bad deeds"

Continuing on,

"And here they say that a person consists of desires,
and as is his desire, so is his will;
and as is his will, so is his deed;
and whatever deed he does, that he will reap."

'Tis indeed the season for reaping what seeds sown long ago have grown. But this, of course, implies that there is some kind of cosmic justice, and that the moral arc of history DOES in fact bend toward that. Could such an omniscient force really be pushing the buttons?

Buddhism teaches us that the karmic effect of a deed is not determined solely by the deed itself, but also by the nature of the person who commits it. Curt Cobain said it best, “If you're really a mean person you're going to come back as a fly & eat poop.”

I don't know if cosmic causality is a thing or not. And if so, do the consequences come in this life or the next? But as a governing principle, you sure could do worse.

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