ATD and ghosts/thanatoids

Joseph Tracy brook7 at sover.net
Tue Mar 9 19:56:31 CST 2010


Great quote from VL.( I still like it a lot , probably because it  
suits my sense of humor and because I love Humboldt County) . I had  
forgotten about Takeshi's immunity.

Any thoughts on that?

Here are some lines from wikipedia on karma: "Karma is not punishment  
or retribution but simply an extended expression or consequence of  
natural acts. Karma means "deed" or "act" and more broadly names the  
universal principle of cause and effect, action and reaction that  
governs all life. The effects experienced are also able to be  
mitigated by actions and are not necessarily fated. That is to say, a  
particular action now is not binding to some particular, pre- 
determined future experience or reaction; it is not a simple, one-to- 
one correspondence of reward or punishment.
Karma is not fate, for humans act with free will creating their own  
destiny. According to the Vedas, if we sow goodness, we will reap  
goodness; if we sow evil, we will reap evil. Karma refers to the  
totality of our actions and their concomitant reactions in this and  
previous lives, all of which determines our future. The conquest of  
karma lies in intelligent action and dispassionate response."





On Mar 9, 2010, at 6:39 PM, Richard Fiero wrote:

> John Bailey wrote:
>> Vineland, Inherent Vice and now AtD have been very free 'n' easy with
>> this concept of karmic adjustment. Isn't it a bit like saying
>> . . .
>
> Karmic adjustment is a biz that Takeshi began from a notion of  
> insurance adjustment.
> =====
> But right at the beginning DL had to sit Takeshi down for an elbows- 
> on-the-table talk. "It ain't a-zackly Tokyo here, you know, you  
> can't just go free-lancin' in 'karmic adjustment,' whatever that is  
> - nobody'll pay for it." "Ha-ha! But that's where you're wrong,  
> Carrot-head! They'll pay us just like they pay the garbage men from  
> the garbage dump, the plumbers in the septic tank - the mop hands  
> at the toxic spill! They don't want to do it - so we'll do it for  
> them! Dive right down into it! Down into all that - waste-pit of  
> time! We know it's time lost forever - but they don't!" "Keep  
> hearin' this 'we.' . . ." "Trust me - this is just like insurance -  
> only different! I have the experience, and - better than that, the  
> - immunity too!"
> =====
> The official definition of karma is nothing about revenge but is  
> just the amount of one's attachment to the world of illusion -  
> might be everything that is not eating, shitting or fucking. See  
> Heinrich Zimmer's "Philosophies of India," 1953.  Compare the Bardo  
> Thodol.
>
> Paraphrasing Emmet Fox in "Make Your Life Worth While." 1942:  
> William Penn become uncomfortable about wearing a sword which he  
> had done since boyhood. George Fox told him "Carry thy sword until  
> thou canst no longer carry it." A year later Penn gave up the  
> practice quite easily.




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