GLOBAL KARMA

Part one: Ripple Effect

In Buddhism and Hinduism karma is the individual process of seeking spiritual liberation. Global Karma is the collective process of all humans on Earth. If we work together to improve our Global Karma, we will flourish. We will never be able to purchase contentment or freedom. By seeking one momentary satisfaction after another we remain distracted from the reality of our self-created destiny. We must create an existence based on cooperation and connection if we want lasting happiness (not just for ourselves individually but as a species). Quite simply: we act as if the planet and the life on it are important to us and we flourish… we act as if the planet, and the life on it, are mere commodities and the planet (and life on it) will suffer dysfunction and death.

Our evolution is being stagnated by backward thinking and arrogant ignorance. By clinging to unexamined assumptions about the nature of reality, members of our species are stifling our ability to make an evolutionary leap. It is only by elevating our consciousness and questioning our biases that we overcome the hurdle of ignorance. Holding us back are an authoritarian gallery of buffoons.

In our global neighborhood, our actions don’t just affect the individual. Karma, according to the Oxford dictionary, is “the sum of a person’s actions in this and previous states of existences, viewed as deciding their fate in future existences”. When we see that we are part of a whole, it easier to recognize how our actions decide the fate of others. We are a…