A treatise on karmic relationships

What we can observe here in the west is that we have come to misunderstand the overarching topic of karma, at least in the broad sense as it was meant to be understood in Hindu and Buddhist religions. It is a conversation piece that it clouded in glittering ambiguities. Here, the general thought as it relates to the issue of karma is that it is a phenomenon that is based on causality in our immediate reality. Following this thought, it is believed that those that have bad intentions — those of us that do bad things — will have bad things happen unto them, and that is their karma. When someone wrongs us in our day-to-day lives, we can almost hear ourselves saying, ‘they will get their karma,’ or something along the lines of, ‘karma is a b***h,’ pardon the French. And this idea flows both ways, with the person that does good in the world will be met with all the blessings in the world. But what we would find if we analyze karma as it is found in Eastern pedagogies, we will find that this is an interpretation that is oversimplified, and not quite accurate. In this didactic treatise, an in-depth examination will be provided regarding karma, especially in the context of karmic bonds and relationships.

In an examination of karma, and the relationships that they are a part of, it is crucial for us to reach an understanding that karma in the traditional sense cannot be discussed without…