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A Little Note On Karma

eric mccarty
3 min readAug 22, 2022

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A Little Note — Karma — Prose Poetry — Headless Now — Moca McCarty Photo

A little note:

karma is the motion of life, it’s not a justice system, nothing is rewarded and no punishment is issued forth — really, we can’t even truly say it’s result producing as every effect is already shifting to the motion of infinite causes and no outcome is ever lasting. This is just a little note on karma, my own insight based on study, and more deeply so on my observation of the world. Nothing I write here is meant to be a treatise on the subject of karma, my words are only a lyrical expression of a subject come to mind.

it’s just my writing for the morning.

a little note on karma.

and it’s a subject deeply misunderstood, mostly viewed as punishment and reward, a belief system of our own wishful thinking for justice to be served. But karma itself is much more subtle, it’s not a scale that measures deeds and actions, nor is it a cosmic law that’s somehow separate from our daily affairs and observes our lives through a lens of judgement. Karma literally means action, and again it’s simply motion, life, and how it continuously plays as a universal function.

karma is what we are.

motion.

life.

of course there appears to be cause and effect, actions always produce some sort of a response, and in the case of karma this…

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eric mccarty
eric mccarty

Written by eric mccarty

Writer, prose poetry, meditation teacher and lifetime student

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