I agree with you.I think karma shifts according to your orientation too. I f you are aiming for STO graduation, you may incur a price for those transgressions (which are ultimately against your “aim” and your own soul) - that a slacker might not.
So to me it's hard to see with what is happening out in the world how karma operates. Certainly many "innocent" people suffer at the hands of the bad actors and rarely do things happen the other way round.
I think this is surely correct or almost.I think karma is the same as learning lessons and the struggle to do that. Although it depends on what the lesson is.
If you have certain lessons to learn (that you chose to learn) but don't learn them, but do the opposite, and in that way go against your 'soul path', then the result is 'karma'. Karma ends when you've learned your lessons.
As an STS being in a material world, if your chosen lesson is to learn the limitations of and 'transcend' material existence, then there'll be plenty of 'karma'.
If your chosen lesson is to learn how to immerse yourself in material existence, then there won't be much karma.
I think this makes better sense if I've understood correctly. Essentially karma is what you get if you go against the lessons you chose to learn. It's the result of going opposite of these lessons or running away from them.I think karma is the same as learning lessons and the struggle to do that. Although it depends on what the lesson is.
If you have certain lessons to learn (that you chose to learn) but don't learn them, but do the opposite, and in that way go against your 'soul path', then the result is 'karma'. Karma ends when you've learned your lessons.
As an STS being in a material world, if your chosen lesson is to learn the limitations of and 'transcend' material existence, then there'll be plenty of 'karma'.
If your chosen lesson is to learn how to immerse yourself in material existence, and in doing so you are aligning with your 'soul path', then there won't be much karma.
Contrast someone whose goal it is to eat as much candy as possible, with someone who's goal is to avoid sugar at all costs. Put both of them in a candy store for 80 years. Which will appear to do best?
I don't think karma is a tit for tat universal law, I think it's more in line with your post and correlated to ones chosen lessons and whether one is moving closer and closer to that point where they are essentially ready to graduate from 3D
I believe the reason that it IS this way atm has a lot to do with the type of society we find ourselves in.The thing that to me makes it really hard to understand karma, even at a rudimentary level is that in this world, bad people who know how to play the system more often than not get rewarded and live "good" lives (i.e. how they define good to themselves) whilst exploiting others and leaving a trail of destruction behind them.
Really, if you observe, the people who run the world aren't good people yet they do so with a level of impunity that is scary.
More often than not, these people live to be a good ripe age and leave legacies that last for centuries.
So to me it's hard to see with what is happening out in the world how karma operates. Certainly many "innocent" people suffer at the hands of the bad actors and rarely do things happen the other way round.
Sure, one may argue that karma in this sense may operate at the level of millennia and civilisation but at that level, given our short lifespans, we can't really see it in action within our lifespans.
So to me it remains somewhat elusive. Not because of "saintliness" or any such clearly false notions, but because the cause and effect of it isn't that obvious or apparent if one really was being honest with what they know and don't know.
karma (n.)
1827, in Buddhism, the sum of a person's actions in one life, which determines his form in the next; from Sanskrit karma "action, work, deed; fate," related to Sanskrit krnoti, Avestan kerenaoiti "makes," Old Persian kunautiy "he makes;" from PIE root *kwer- "to make, form" (see terato-). "Latterly adopted by Western popular 'meditative' groups" [OED, 1989]. It is related to the second element in Sanskrit.
also from 1827
Q: What is the nature of the karma?
A: Role reversal.