I'm back on to the question of what Karma is again. I instinctively know it's of paramount importance - the sort of thing that makes or breaks. It's in my mind as I navigate my way through my stormy waters of house moving and business mananging.
Karma, in it's real non-hippie slang form, is the cumulation of "effects" (Buddha speak for outcomes I think) from all the good and bad "causes" (again technical BSpeak, for all our thoughts,words and actions) we've made in our lives. This shapes our present and our future. Karma simply means 'action' in Sanscrit - so no great mystery with that word fortunately. Our thoughts, words and deeds show themselves in everything about us, including our good and bad fortune. They pretty much make up the "us" of "us".
I've been wondering how my Karma has led me to where I am domestically speaking. I think I'm getting a handle on how I've been neglecting my personal affairs. My eye has been so trained on my business ball that I've let a whole fleet of personal admin stack up like planes holding over Heathrow. It's time these aero-babies landed. My strong and sneaky suspicions say I need to do clean up my less-than-perfect bills and paper-filing act.
As an insightful Amercian coaching friend of mine suggested over lunch earlier, I could try managing my personal affairs wih the skills I've carefully applied to my business. It seems pretty blindingly obvious now with hindsight, but she did have to say the words out loud. Although it was more of a honeyed whisper of a Southern American drawl from her sweet lips. I'm indebted to her clarity of thinking. She's an instinctively clever gal, and it's one heck of a help having her on side...
In Buddhist ways, we have the fortune of knowing our karma isn't set in some spiritial stone. We're no unfortunate prehistoric fly caught in amber. We're free to change our thinking, so we're free to change our pesky bad habits and destuctive ways. We're all given second chances - we all have the power to change by simply changing our minds.
So I'm busy setting up my new business approach to my home life. The new and improved BuddhaBelle Ltd is launching very soon, aiming to clean up its sister's act. I'm changing my whole karma, if you will, as to how I run the business of my life and my child's life. Not that I'm after a ruthlessly lean and mean set-up. More of an effecient operations unit working for the home and happiness that my little child deserves.
It's not a bad mission statement,I hope you agree. It's not a half bad line-up of talent and experience either. But you'll have to take my word on that bit.
Thank you Lizzy. Nan myoho renge kyo
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