(June 9, 2014 at 11:10 am)Confused Ape Wrote: How can we be certain about what karma we're earning? What if an emphasis on 'my liberation' 'my good karma' 'my body in my next life' earns bad karma if we aren't concerned with what gets harmed so don't bother working to save the planet and living things on it? I shall carry on being materialistic because I've never found any convincing evidence that being at one with the universe or whatever is anything more than a subjective experience. While I'm here I'll carry on being concerned about animal welfare, humans rights and ecology. If this means I'll come back as a rat next time round because reincarnation is real and I'm not spiritual enough I'll still be a manifestation of Brahman.
The problem with believing or not believing in something is that
the consciousness of believing or not come as you are interested
or not in that something.
To get interested in something you got first to feel the need for
a change and feel that THAT something can help you in sorting out
some problem that you may have.
If on the other hand you are happy as you are why worry about
anything else?
Suppose you practice some martial art and you got a particular belt
or you are studying something in year 1.
Before you may wish to upgrade to year 2 or getting more skill in
martial arts you understand that you need to get skilled in year 1 or
in that particular belt.
Unconsciously you may feel the need to upgrade immediately but
your conscious side tell you to wait until you perfect what you are doing.
Now you care about global issues but i am sure that sooner or later
something else will start kicking within.
That new feeling will not tell you to give up what you are doing now
and start something else.
It rather will tell you to get a better tool to give more strength to your
fight for emancipation.
But that will not be the end.
That feeling of something missing will kick the door of your consciousness
again and again until you reach the very top of human emancipation so i would speculate
at this stage whether what you got at the moment is the ultimate or not.
