Marijuana, Karma, and the Law of Three
October 31, 2007 – 9:12 amThe Three Fold Law
For those of you who aren’t inclined towards the flowery abbreviated version of karma in the New Age movement, it amounts to “What goes around comes around”. I say it is an abbreviated version of karma because it exists in the Western world without the balance of dharma and yes even the dogma which dharma flows through, without the context of its original setting.
Karma and the Three Toed Sloth
http://ajdrew.blogs.pagannation.com/2007/08/03/karma/
Something occurred to me today, which I would like to share. Even if we set aside the origin of the concept of karma. Even if we ignore the New Age version of karma. Even if we ignore the Wiccan version which expands: “Three times good. Three times bad.” Even if we go with the most abbreviated version of karma, we are left with the lingering taste of that public service commercial: Nothing has changed.
The setting is a man in his mother’s basement. He is defending smoking marijuana to the camera. One of the things he says is that he has been smoking marijuana since he was a teenager and nothing has changed. His mother yells to her basement (where he lives) and asks if he’s going out to look for a job today. He was right, nothing has changed.
Although the public service commercial clearly indicates that the habitual smoking of marijuana has led to the man’s stagnation, I think the man’s stagnation has led to habitual smoking of marijuana. Like any drug (beer included), the person determines the abuse. So what of the person? More importantly to this discussion, what of the person and his karma.
What happens when you take absolutely no action because you are worried about karma? The answer is stagnation. You become that three toed sloth I spoke of earlier. You wind up living in your mother’s basement without a job, toking on one joint after the next. If you do nothing, nothing is done.
Think about the folk who constantly warn about karma. Has the three fold law not become their excuse to do nothing? To sit in their mother’s basement and smoke their lives away? To spend their lives as Sloths?
One Response to “Marijuana, Karma, and the Law of Three”
Good way of putting it, AJ.
“Nothing has changed”
Karma is about what you do– your actions (or lack there of), I believe.
One gives to an organization, and reaps the benefit of knowing he has helped someone, problably never meeting that person that he helped.
I believe the karma and recovery are interlocked:
it is all about action. One can sit after a TBI has hit, and play the “woe is me” game, or one can fight and beat the disability by overcoming the disability.
By pseudopagan on Oct 31, 2007