KARMA AND THE COSMIC PENDULUM OF LIFE, and human karma

 KARMA AND THE COSMIC PENDULUM OF LIFE

The pendulum of life swings from nothing to something and back to nothing.  From dead to live and back to death; from sleep to awake and back to sleep; from night to day and back to night.

When there is nothing, there is no cause, effect, action, reaction.
When there is something, there IS cause, effect, action, reaction.
When nothing is happening, there is no cause, effect, action, reaction.
When nothing is going on, there is no cause, no effect, no action, no reaction.

The word karma means cause, effect, action, reaction.  The word karma means there is something, there is happenings, there is going ons.  

Buddhist philosophy looks at human life as cycles of births and deaths (reincarnation) and want to stop experiencing the cycles of cause, effect, action, reaction, happenings, going ons.  They want to exit being something and go back to being nothing; stop going from dead to alive and back to death; stop from sleep to awake and back to sleep; stop from night to day and back to night.  Buddhists want to get off the pendulum of life and no longer swing from nothing to something.  They want permanent nothing.

A Buddhist may ask, “Why was I born with Karma?”  The answer is: You inherited karma from the moment the cycle of life began, because you are the result of the happening, the goings on, the something occurring (because of the cycle of life–from nothing to something).  

Doing something, anything, creates cause and effect, action and reaction (karma).  Karma is not good or bad (except a human judges it so).  Karma is just cause and effect, action and reaction.

As the universal or cosmic pendulum of life swings broadly and slowly from nothing to something for eons of time, individual human lives mimic the cosmic swing from nothing to something multiple short durations of time during the broad and slow cosmic swing from nothing to something.