Dancing karma's old folk myopathy. ‘Spiritual’ cultural appropriation, cause & effectless karma terms.
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Considerations (and re-write for those who sneer at metaphors)
When foreign sounding words are used, many of those who were interested in seeing what’s outside the dance floor become turned-off. They automatically connect that speaker to clique, with a vernacular seeking VIP exclusivity. There’s a place for metaphor, it’s in front of the red velvet ropes. However, foreign language is not metaphor. It places terms from other countries and epochs on privileged red carpets, ignoring flexibility for more modern, socially relevant discourse.
One of the most useful, but overused, dry, old, and ill-defined words in use is ‘karma’. For Westerners, the visions of what appears to be alien looking people are conjured at its mere mention. Unfortunately, those same alien looking people are quite content in their ‘outsider’ roles, costumes, and need to be cool factor. Now there’s nothing wrong with being cool, but hey, just saying, it might be cooler to share important concepts in ways that people listen. After all, what’s the point of communication if you aren’t speaking so the listener can understand?
The deeper involved on the dance floor, the more time and space seem ultimately solid. This is why an anchor is used to traverse between the absolute (singularity) and the perception of the relative (duality). What are these anchors and how can you integrate them to blend the seams at your command?
Anyhow, the next point in this missive is pointing out that the perspective proximity of the observer effects the gauging and calibration of what is known as ‘karma’ or ‘cause n’ effect’ in a sliding scale of ‘realness’. The further you’re out from these dancing partners, the clearer it becomes that they’re really one, without time photobombing the observation.
The twin horned-rimmed glasses are representative of duality, in that karmic-cause-effect is only seen and experienced when perceiving through dualistic fashionable eyewear.
Where duality and the on-off matrix are neither causal in either direction, but ways of looking at itself. Karma is a snazzy way to place a 'cause and effect' label upon thoughts desire to create temporary distinctions upon the acts of creation (yes, I know 'acts of creation' implies time). The challenge lies in the language itself - as words imply thought, which then imply distance and space... and time. All these distinctions are great in the playground of relative duality, but ultimately without need when swimming in the present.