Karma is a Narcotic.

Rob Says1 Comment

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I mentioned in my last post that I read Tarot cards professionally (i.e., I get paid to do it). One of the recurring things that I notice about the majority of the people who come in to see me, is that they have a belief in karma. Let’s define karma for a moment. Karma is the force created by a person’s actions that is believed in Hinduism and Buddhism to determine what that person’s next life will be like. It is also defined as the force created by a person’s actions that some people believe causes good or bad things to happen to that person. This is according to Webster. What karma really is, is a narcotic. It’s a way to avoid feelings of powerlessness and to bring a sense of order into a chaotic world.

Shit happens. Lost your job? Must have been payback for something in a past life or something that you deserved because of some action you did in this life (which is possible). Can’t do anything about it? No problem, karma has you covered. “He’ll get his. Karma is a bitch.” Smoke that narcotic and now go back to sleep. Karma is a way to avoid responsibility for your choices and actions. It’s karma after all. It’s fate. Can’t do shit about it.

Bullshit. Make better choices. Own up to your actions or inaction’s. DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT. Take charge of your life instead of playing the victim card. Wait, that’s hard. Playing the victim card is much easier, so choose that.

Do I believe in karma? Nope. Good things happen to good people, bad things happen to good people, bad things happen to bad people, and good things happen to bad people. That’s life. Sometimes it sucks, but there it is.

There is no karma, no fate but what you make for yourself. (Guess the movie quote.) There is no god, or if there is, god is indifferent to who you are and what you do. If there is a god, he or she gave up on you and me way before we ever came about. We are the toys on the top shelf when the toddler grows up and moves on to bigger and better things.

There is the universe that we are all a part of. Guess what? It doesn’t care either. It’s totally indifferent too. Indifferent at best. Possibly malevolent, but that’s for another post for another time.

Since there is no god, no fate, no karma, and the universe could give a fuck less about you, why not become your own god and create your reality as you would like it to be? First you have to give up the superstitions that hold you back. There is no past lives to account for, no future one’s coming, just this one life. Right now. Make the most of it. Drop the guilt, drop the helplessness, drop the pretty lies. Own your shit and move on. Ever forward!

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A Quote from The Circus of Dr. Lao

Rob Says1 Comment

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“Tomorrow will be like today, and the day after tomorrow will be like day before yesterday,” said Apollonius. “I see your remaining days each as quiet, tedious collections of hours. You will not travel anywhere. You will think no new thoughts. You will experience no new passions. Older you will become but not wiser. Stiffer but not more dignified. Childless you are, and childless you shall remain. Of that suppleness you once commanded in your youth, of that strange simplicity which once attracted a few men to you, neither endures, nor shall you recapture any of them anymore. People will talk to you and visit with you out of sentiment or pity, not because you have anything to offer them. Have you ever seen an old cornstalk turning brown, dying, but refusing to fall over, upon which stray birds alight now and then, hardly remarking what it is they perch on? That is you. I cannot fathom your place in life’s economy. A living thing should either create or destroy according to its capacity and caprice, but you, you do neither. You only live on dreaming of the nice things you would like to have happen to you but which never happen; and you wonder vaguely why the young lives about you which you occasionally chide for a fancied impropriety never listen to you and seem to flee at your approach. When you die you will be buried and forgotten and that is all. The morticians will enclose you in a worm-proof casket, thus sealing even unto eternity the clay of your uselessness. And for all the good or evil, creation or destruction, that your living might have accomplished, you might just as well has never lived at all. I cannot see the purpose in such a life. I can see in it only vulgar, shocking waste.”
― Charles G. Finney, The Circus of Dr. Lao

I’ve been in the Tarot business for a long time. Most of my clients want smoke and sunshine blown up their asses. They want to blame fate, karma, god, the universe, and everybody else for their situations. They want things to fall into place without having to do anything about it. They want it all and they want it now. And they wanted it handed to them on a silver platter with a silver spoon. Reality doesn’t work that way, the world doesn’t owe you anything. You have to work for it. You have to make sacrifices, and you have to be able to perform. It also doesn’t hurt if you know people.

When I found this quote, it is what the TRUE reality is for most people. I’m going to print it out on business cards and hand them out. I want to tell people, “Here. Here is your real fate. This is going to be you, unless you truly want to do something about it, instead of hoping and praying, blaming karma, god, or anyone else for where you are at. You got yourself there, one way or another. It’s up to you to get yourself out.”

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