I have a brand new roof, and the gutters are clean.

Let it rain.

My father died seven years ago, and Im still not over it.

He did his hospice with me, for cancer, and I did not suspect the impact it would have on me.

Hospice workers from the hospital did most of his caretaking.  What hit me was the *helplessness* I felt from not being able to do more for him, like cure him.

But thankfully he became awakened just before he died, and that put on a great finishing touch, for which I am grateful to the Spirit.

Still, I am only just now coming out of the depression that hit me after he died.  Turning my attention to getting the house fixed up, which has been neglected, and moving on in life.

Karma:

We had a guy working at the Resort who had anger issues.  He would take issue with anyone over just about anything.  He was almost 7 ft tall and the women at the desk said he intimidated them by looming over them.  He tried it with me too, but I just said, *Its okay by me, man, I can reach you just fine.*  Then he backed off.

Then he threatened to beat up the soda delivery man, and go fired.  Later they brought him back for Banquet Setup, thinking that would have little public contact.  But he got into a verbal argument with another setup person, in the middle of the crowded restaurant, and they both got fired.

Now I hear he has become a registered nurse, and I pray never to fall into his care.

Its up to us to cultivate ourselves, and what will come to us will be like that.  karma is not a mathematical equation, determining reward or retribution. 

A secretary at work long ago used to ask how a certain person we knew kept getting promoted, even though she was terrible to everyone.  I said, *God lifts some people higher just so as to drop them further.* 

She rose to the level of a National Director, and then was fired for some kind of malfeasence, along with some others of the same ilk.  At that level, its pretty hard to get another job after something like that.

Just be as good of a person as you can be, and let good things happen for you.

Quote: "Quote: "Quote: "Karma is simple, Eat chilli tonight and burn tomorrow. The difficult bit (which is not so difficult with practice) is understanding where your actions will lead. What is the product of your actions. This takes awareness and clear thinking.

This is why the most important thing of all is
Attention, Attention Attention.

All the books and learnings only point to this, each of us personally must be attentive constantly to our actions and thoughts, and motivation. If we can do this then we do not need any books or learnings, we have them all, internalised.
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Personally, I rather like to think of Karma not as cause and effect but more of an entanglement. Example is that a person is angry or depressed due to something previous .. this doesn't require knowledge of what caused it .. it requires awareness to change and become free of its effects .. free of entanglements. To become free of causing something else. To end the cycle.

In this way, Karma relates to the path that one is on and the direction that one wants to move towards. Rather than just thinking it is a cause and effect. I'm guessing that I'm not making any sense. Sorry for the ramblings.
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If the person who is angry looks at themself and discovers the anger is not real, it is ego created puff goes the anger. Gone
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The first time I was mugged I was only 9 years old.  Three boys at a playground beat me up and took my ball and mitt.  Two of them held me while the third one beat me up.

Years later, walking along with my grandfather I saw one of the boys talking with some people.  I figured I would be several swings into him before he remembered who I was, and said, "Excuse me, Grandpa, I've got a score to settle."

He told me to forget it, nothing good could come of it.  He told me to let the past go, and just stay focused on making a better future.  That he said was the better thing to do.

I respected his wisdom and let it go, but I must admit that even today, nearly 50 years later, I wouldnt mind settling the score, but I would still let it go.  Revenge is a bad investment.  Its all risk, and no income.

Your question seems appropriate, as does your analogy.

By letting it go I meant I had decided not to act on it.  It doesnt change the way I feel about being mugged like that.

EG:  When I was little my big brother used to try to kill me every day.  True story.  I asked him a few years ago if he remembered when he used to do that and he said he did, even recounted some times that I didnt remember.

I asked him how he felt about that, and he said he had no problems with it because older siblings often resent the arrival of a newcomer.  He said he had no remorse about it at all.

I thought about that.  He tried to kill me until I was three years old, every chance he got.  I had to struggle everyday to survive. Even after he stopped trying to kill me, he still made life as hard for me as he could.  And he is not even sorry now that he is an adult.

If he had said he was sorry, I would have forgiven him and moved on.  But since he has no remorse, that just means he has grown from a little piece of crap into a big piece of crap.  So I told him we are estranged and I want nothing more to do with him, and that is how it has been for several years now.  Yet I have not plans to do him harm.

Thats what I call letting it go, putting it in the past.  I still harbor a great dislike for my brother, and resentment for the way I was treated, but I dont hate anyone or anything.  I just dont want anything more to do with him.

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I do not know what to say. Again my apologies ...
Really sorry for bringing up such memories and feelings.
Please forgive me so that we can forget this matter and move on.
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I do not know what to say. Again my apologies ...
Really sorry for bringing up such memories and feelings.
Please forgive me so that we can forget this matter and move on.
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I dont want anything more to do with him in this lifetime.  I guess thats what I call letting it go.

After we have died and gone over to the other side, so to speak, I will see what options are available there.  If I can press charges against him there, or pursuit some course of seeking justice, maybe I will, or maybe I wont.  I will decide then.

Until then, I will just let it go here.  It doesnt matter anymore, here.  And when I think about it, that what I think of it.