THE KARMA

I don’t want anyone to think that – after saying of my faith in the Catholic God (whom I met while in a coma) I now say that Buddha is another God I believe in.

It’s simply that this religion contains concepts that to my injured mind and me seem to be very human (and much less godly), I put here below in fact the 20 laws of the Karma for you to realize that maybe I’m not as crazy as I was assessed me to be:

LAWS OF KARMA

1. THE GREAT LAW - As you sow, so shall you reap. This is also known as the Law of Cause and Effect. Whatever we put out in the Universe is what comes back to us. If what we want is happiness, peace, friendship, love…………….. Then we should BE happy, peaceful, loving, a friend. Negative energy sent out to others will come back to you 10 fold

2. THE LAW OF CREATION - Life doesn't just HAPPEN, it requires our participation. We are one with the Universe both inside and out. Whatever surrounds us gives us clues to our inner state. BE and DO yourself what you want to have in your life.

3. THE LAW OF HUMILITY - What you refuse to accept, will continue for you. If what we see is an enemy, or someone with a character trait that we find to be negative, then we ourselves are not focused on a higher level of existence.

4. THE LAW OF GROWTH - Wherever you go, there you are. For us to GROW in Spirit it is WE who must change and not the people, places or things around us. The only given we have in our lives is OURSELVES, and that is the only factor we have control over. When we change who and what we are within our heart, our life changes too.

5. THE LAW OF RESPONSIBILITY - Whenever there is something wrong, there is something wrong in me. We mirror what surrounds us and what surrounds us mirrors us: we must take responsibility for what is in our life.

6. THE LAW OF CONNECTION - Even if something we do seems inconsequential, it is very important that it is done as everything in the Universe is connected. Each step leads to the next step and so forth and so on. Someone must do the initial work to get a job done. Neither the first step nor the last are of greater significance-they were both needed to accomplish the task. Past, Present, Future…they are all connected…

7. THE LAW OF FOCUS - You can't think of two things at the same time. You should climb up a ladder on step at a time. When you lose your focus, you let in insecurities and anger.

8. THE LAW OF GIVING AND HOSPITALITY - If you believe something to be true, then sometime in your life you will be called upon to demonstrate that truth. Here is where we put what we SAY that we have learned into PRACTICE.

9. THE LAW OF HERE AND NOW - Looking back to examine what was prevents us from being totally in the HERE AND NOW. Old thoughts, old patterns of behavior, old dreams…Prevent us from having new ones.

10. THE LAW OF CHANGE - History repeats itself until we learn the lessons that we need to change our path.

11. THE LAW OF PATIENCE AND REWARD - All Rewards require initial toil. Rewards of lasting value require patient and persistent toil. True joy follows doing what we're suppose to be doing, and waiting for the reward to come in it's own time.

12. THE LAW OF SIGNIFICANCE AND INSPIRATION - You get back from something whatever you've put into it. The value of something is a direct result of the energy and intent that is put into it. Every personal contribution is also a contribution to the Whole. Lack luster contributions have no impact overall or work to diminish it.

As always I’m going to put some links to websites consistent with what I’m trying to say now but my personal conclusion and understanding of this Karma is that it’s truly very human (or evil) and it’s truly what just about caused my practical death as husband, father and successful top manager.

In fact, I've convinced myself that my former company president at Tecnica Italy (Giancarlo Zanatta my employer right before A. Martinez at Deckers) got so mad and frustrated by my resignation to join Deckers right in the middle of the OR show that he must have sent to my direction a very powerful Karma that caused what I just described.

The result of my resignation has been that every new president of Tecnica USA has lasted no longer than 1 year, most of the best and seasoned employees have left and pretty much nobody here in the USA considers the Tecnica brand with its products something to keep in mind when making buying or branding layout  decisions. In this sense I consider the Buddhist Karma stronger than “my” Catholic God, it’s simply because it’s a real part of humanity that with its free-will can be evil.

1. http://www.buddhanet.net/e-learning/karma1.htm
2. http://www.wisdomsdoor.com/rc4/hrc4-17.shtml
3. http://siddhayatan.org/how-karma-affects-our-life-and-what-to-do-about-it/