By This is the most important question that we ask ourselves about our lives, the people we love, and the world around us. Is it safe? Is it safe to love? Is it safe to be? We want our answers to be honest, yet we can’t always be sure. We try to be as honest as we can, yet we are not always sure. You can tell me anything, I just like to know the truth.
Sometimes I get asked this question too, and I don’t always know the answer. I know that the majority of people want to be able to tell the truth about their lives, but they just don’t know how to do it. Their friends call them liars or crazy, and it can make it feel like life is unfair. Or sometimes when I hear what they say, it is true.
For a lot of people, I don’t think they are lying, but rather exaggerating. They are saying things like “I have to work, I have a job, I have to pay my bills, I have a life” while neglecting to mention that they have a family, that they have bills to pay, and that they dont have a job. They may be exaggerating, but I think what they are really saying is they just dont see their lives as fair.
The word “kabadadaari” means “a person who doesnt accept his fate” in Sanskrit. In Indian culture, the idea of karma or destiny is not something that is accepted or accepted for granted, but a series of events that each person may not be able to control. In many ways, the idea of karma is very similar to the idea of free will.
In a sense, karma is a positive thing. It means we are responsible for our choices and actions. Karma suggests that we are able to choose how we will make our life, and that we are never completely at the mercy of situations or people who do not wish us well. But in the modern world, karma is usually associated with negative things.
Karma is also sometimes referred to as “punishment by the people who do not wish us well.” This is a bit of a misnomer because in many cases karma is really not a punishment at all. I had a student once tell me that when she was in her mid-20s she was raped, and then had to pay a huge fine for years because the police refused to do anything about it. I then told her that karma is not a punishment.
Karma is usually said to be a combination of two things. When people don’t wish us well, it is because of their own bad actions, actions which they may not even know about yet. When people do wish us well, it is because of our actions that we have decided to be in their bad graces. As we’ve learned, it is in our self-interest to be in the best possible shape we can be in. It is the result of doing our best all the time.
It is true that karma is not a punishment. It is an opportunity to be even better and to work towards the good things that weve done. But karmic badness is not something which should be thought of in the same way as physical badness. Karma is not something that should be endured as punishment, it is an opportunity to transform our lives, to improve ourselves.
So how do we transform our lives? Well, our bodies and minds are pretty much the same thing. You can’t transform your mind without changing your body. How do we change our bodies? Well by changing our lifestyles.
What I like to do is change my life and in doing so, my mindset, my life, my mindset, my life etcetera…
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