Training in Aikido to Create World Peace - Page 9

Kevin Leavitt · 12-15-2011, 03:47 PM

a stick is the opposite of a knife.

Demetrio Cereijo · 12-15-2011, 04:09 PM

Quote:

Greg Steckel wrote:

To me, this type of communication is futile and only leads to the opinion that some people just want to read and hear themselves - this is very evident in this post as well as some other previous posts centering around the same subjects. One of the major reasons I have been somewhat quite lately in the forum

Maybe that is what they want, to take aikiweb for themselves.

lbb · 12-15-2011, 04:43 PM

"You get to have your own opinion. You don't get to have your own facts."

- Some smart person or other

Kevin Leavitt · 12-15-2011, 05:56 PM

Mary I can live whatever reality I choose.

graham christian · 12-15-2011, 06:20 PM

Living with Ki, then you're living the dream,
Living in Karma, then you're living the drama.

Regards.G.

Demetrio Cereijo · 12-15-2011, 06:34 PM

What about livin' la vida loca?

Carsten Möllering · 12-16-2011, 01:38 AM

As far as I learned in my job and as far I was taught in my practice there are two understandings of karma floating around.

- If you just think of karma in terms of cause and effect, then you will come to see karma as phenomenon that can tend to have "good" or "bad" results.
(The english-speaking wikipedia represents this conception.)

- If you understand karma as always being the result of the actions of a certain "I am" / "ego"I / "t's me", i.e. a person, there is only causing karma or not causing karma.
Someone who doesn't understand that there is no ego, wil cause karma. Which just "is". But the aim of buddhistic religion/philosphy is to not have an ego. To make "me" stop producing/causing karma. So there can not be something that is called good or positive karma.
(The German speaking wikipedia thinks of "good" and "bad" karma as a hinduistic concept. But the distinction of causing or not causing karma as a budhhistic concept.)