{"id":7708,"date":"2010-10-25T16:37:46","date_gmt":"2010-10-25T08:37:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/?p=7708"},"modified":"2010-10-25T16:37:46","modified_gmt":"2010-10-25T08:37:46","slug":"karmic-infections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/2010\/10\/karmic-infections\/","title":{"rendered":"Karmic Infections"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If we don’t have the karma to be infected by a disease, we will not be? Yes. If you have the karma to, you might be infected even if not near the infected? Maybe? What we know is the karma ripens when there is a cause with the right conditions.<\/p>\n

The problem is we don’t know what causes we have created, even if we know what conditions might ripen them. We might hesitate to brave some conditions for a greater cause, because we are unsure if we had created the cause to suffer from doing so (e.g. helping the infectious ill) in the past. There are risks, yes.<\/p>\n

We ought to believe in the workings of karma, but we ought to believe in the workings of compassion, that can dilute negative karma too, or prevent it from ripening, as acts of compassion creates fresh positive karma. If we ignore the needs of the infectious instead, would that not create fresh negative karma? In that way, we become ‘infected’ too!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If we don’t have the karma to be infected by a disease, we will not be? Yes. If you have…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[57,139],"class_list":["post-7708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mix","tag-compassion","tag-karma","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7708\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moonpointer.com\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}