Not Posting as Often, Because of Karma
I haven’t been posting as much lately, but it’s because of karma. I know that I can’t get something for nothing.
My intentions at Steemit have always been to add value to the platform, and while I could post every day, or multiple times a day, it would be like getting rewarded for doing nothing; free money.
At first, free money sounds good, but from a karmic standpoint, there must be a balance, and since every action has an equal and opposite reaction, then every free penny that we find in the grocery store parking lot will equal the loss of a penny later on, for the sake of balance.
A Valuable Lesson in Karma
There’s really no such a thing as ‘bad karma’, since everything in the world is the result of good and bad karma, or the law of ‘come back’ at work. In the same way, any ‘good’ karma is simply a way for balance to be achieved.
If I offer you a piece of pie, it may be because I want to give and share and show off how great I make pies, but what it really means is-- if the pie is actually good pie-- then that piece of pie is some of your good karma, returning to you for balance. It’s not free pie, it’s me offering pie as a way to make the world a better place (more people eating pie) and it’s you getting your karmic reward. Have some damn pie, you earned it, somehow!
Ok, maybe the pie isn’t a good analogy, but there's a difference between being given something, and taking it. I seriously won’t pick up change from the ground anymore, because nothing in life is free.
Similarly, if I lose money, and it falls from my pocket, forever lost, then a balance has been restored, as I must have previously gotten an equal amount of money for ‘free’ at some point.
Keeping Balanced
When I think of something valuable to post, I’ll post it, and if the post doesn’t do well, it’s that old karma at work again, but if the post draws lots of rewards, that is karma too, and I will know that I earned it with action, and the rewards, or lack of same, is the equal and opposite reaction.
If you like this post, upvote as hard as you can for the best curation rewards, but also for karmic rewards. Now is the chance to balance things out, and I am glad to help. Photo above, Free Money is mine, 2018.
The karma theory makes sense!
Trying to keep things balanced out here, after all.
Hi therealpaul,
To balance out my karma, I am upvoting since I got a good value from reading about your karma balancing.
I'm happy that I could help you to balance things!
How is it free money? I see it as I am getting rewarded for the content I create currently, the content I have created in the past, and aided to fund the content I wish to create in the future. I also see it as I'm getting reimbursed for all I spent on healing, which is why I share so much about that too.
I see it as, also, everything I create, has value, just to different to different people, and that I am deserving to being rewarded, as do you.
I guess I'm not one who believes in karme per se, as it were, but in the Law of Attraction. I don't think if a post doesn't do well it's because of karma. It's an indication to the blockages surrounding that topic and/or area in your life that created a barrier, which prevented people from finding that particular post.
Anyway, glad to see you posting :)
I don't object to being rewarded for things that I create, it's the reason that I like Steemit, the possibility of being rewarded is there. I'm only saying here in this post that I wouldn't feel right about being rewarded if I posted every day, just for the sake of staying active on the platform, because I can't make good quality posts every day. Some people can, but I don't want to put up many shitposts, even though I probably still will sometimes ;)
Yeah, I get that.
And how did you figure out this was a valuable post?
It was valuable to me!
Makes one think: what is the valuta of karma?
That which is valuable to me.
Sic: we may expect many more posts?
Will read how that goes.
I was just having a serious conversation and thought about the Law of Balance with a few people over the past few days, and today, I had a conversation too over how people are using bidbots for articles which in my personal opinion, are not worth the amount of votes and money received. Why I say so, is because being someone who is passionate about writing, I daresay I know a good article when I see it.
The thing is I don't have a judgement over where and who money "chooses" to go to. Well, I don't think I do anyway. I do genuinely feel that where money goes to, there is a reason for it. Like what you said about dropping your money, and you restoring balance in some way or form energetically. Balance to me is important to maintain - and I understand it.
But, I definitely can't say I agree with things such as getting more than your fair amount of share (in the case of my bidbot example) so perhaps you can help me out with this viewpoint here. That's why it's just nice that I get to chance upon people like you who do understand about maintaining this balance.
@therealpaul
The vote-bot thing did cross my mind when I was writing this. I've found some gigs before that were definitely easy money, but I found that those gigs never last. I don't expect to try to say who should get rewarded for what they do or don't do, and it's none of my business in a truly free market, but I guess karmically I stick with the premise that nothing comes free in the world for me.
I have heard stories of communities of Buddhists praising and thanking their oppressors because that tyrant had corrected some past karmic debt for the community and it's people. Now that is some serious devotion to the idea of karma there, but if karma is real, then it should work in exactly that fashion, and to be able to find that value in misfortune might be the correct way to manage a balance. I'm not really a Buddhist, but I can see their point.
As for anyone who is making large amounts of easy money in any way; as far as I can tell, that never works out well. It's like lottery winners ending up in worse shape than ever after receiving all that dough, the more money, the more troubles ahead. In the case of the trending page's drama with bid bots, there is a lot of hate going towards a few individuals, but again, that hate is liable to return to sender, and also creates a world with more hate in it, so I don't participate in that.
Yes, there is alot of drama going on with bit bots, internal political issues within local groups etc., would just like to get your personal opinion here, how long do you see the longevity of the Steemit platform given it is beginning to feel like a situation where people are scrambling to put themselves first, the ones who can afford bitbots do, and so more of the reward pool goes to them etc etc, ?
I know that decentralization will definitely continue to happen, blockchains, new cryptos etc, but just the longevity of them, their lifespan, and in my question, Steemit. What are your thoughts? @therealpaul
I know that you are always fantastic in your work, so your good karma should bring you some good feedback. Thanks for sharing, I couldn't connect with you due to some problems but now I am feeling good, how are you doing my friend?
Thanks for the compliment, I appreciate your words. I'm glad you got connected, and are feeling good. I'm doing well also.
Hi Paul
I like that you are thinking about the platform and don't want to abuse it. I don't know if I agree entirely with your definition of karma though, it feels a little heavy.
I mean perhaps you're right and there's some universal accounting force that is making sure we never get too much or not enough. It's certainly true that we have to give this body back which we just borrowed from the dirt. It's a temporary loan, and everything about our earthly experience is a gift and a blessing in that sense.
But perhaps it's not just a case of balance, and it's more a case of "what I embody and believe will be represented by my reality". So if we believe that it has to be this perfect balance then that's the way it is. I'm more inclined to the optimistic view that the abundance of this life is far greater than we understand. I think that we live under an artificial or conditioned yoke of poverty, when abundance is actually our natural state.
Anyhow just some thoughts that your article inspired.
Love your work man
I used the term 'karma' because it seems to be a word that suggests rewards and punishments, but I think karma is really just all that we experience, and don't really see karma as necessarily an accounting force, but maybe like an accurate mirror of our thoughts and actions. I think my definition of karma would be simplified down to being everything that we experience in life-- good or bad-- with that experience being the current reaction to some previous acts. Possibly like an echo of our own voice returning to our ears will still sound like our voice, and if the words were heavy when they were sent out, they will still be heavy when they return.
Actually you describe the thing that I call karma with "what I embody and believe will be represented by my reality". That encompasses it all, really, and corresponds with any version of karma that I know of. It's 'as above, so below' in a physical dance with the mind.
Thanks for expanding the ideas!
This sounds really true what you're saying - that everything we send out comes back in some form but perhaps in a different costume. The catch being that we didn't realize we had a voice in the first place (well I personally didn't with a past in deep matrix unconsciousness). I think I found it a little confusing catching painful boomerangs that I didn't realise I put out there 😂.
Would you say that some kind of 'transcendent' activity is the key to changing your whole karmic dynamic?
Yes, that 'not knowing we have a voice' is the theme of a lot of my little fiction tales, with the world as a mirror, reflecting everything back to the observer. We human Earthlings really don't think much about how powerful we are!
I wonder if 'transcendent' is a word for science and physics that are not fully grasped yet, but for my karmic dynamic, I keep in mind that nothing is free, so I am vigilant about making sure that I don't take things that don't belong to me. Also, I learned to accept my good karma when it returns to me in the form of gifts and kind words from others, those who are balancing things out in their own ways.
You speak wisely. Karma perhaps but more of a the laws of things governed by our higher power. Thanks for a post of value. Blessings. @therealpaul.
I think that we become those higher powers when we put intentions into our actions. Also, though, I just don't have time to make a great post out of every thought that I have every day, I type slow!
Everything seeks a state of equilibrium. If you push really, really hard on the universe, be prepared to duck.
That is a good way to put it!
I'm thoroughly confused and even though I kind of understand balance I'm not following your logic. But that's okay, as long as I can catch some of your posts some of the time and your life is otherwise going well :)
Well it was based on the premise that karma is absolute, and that nothing in life is free. Here I'm attempting to avoid taking value from the platform without contributing value in exchange. If I were to post every day for the sake of posting daily, it would be missing my work, me doing the action, of putting together more quality stuff. Multiple posts might increase rewards, but might end up creating imbalance in karma. And oh yes everything is going well, thank you.
Ahh I get that :)
And goodo :D