What Goes Around Comes Around

This notion of 'karma'. I know karma literally means action and I won't claim to be any kind of authority on the language of what I'm talking about.

Was thinking about the idea of all of life/existence being interconnected - one being or one manifestation, etc. Many manifestations within one is more accurate maybe. It naturally follows that any harm done to another - thing, person, place... is fundamentally done to one's self.

When you start regarding all of existence as your 'self', your perspective changes markedly. Now you have to accept everything and everyone, and withold judgment too. You can't value one thing more than another, and you have to appreciate the tiny contributions of all things.

You also have to live in the unknown. When you stop evaluating and assuming, all that's left to say is 'I don't know'. But this doesn't tell the whole story, because you spontaneously develop a different way of knowing. A non-rational, instinctive way of knowing - aligned with reality it seems. It's hard to throw around words like truth and reality, but these are evoked in the mind when one experiences life in the unknown. Life is a paradox - when you don't know, you know. And you can't want to know, because when you want, you are thinking that you 'know' what you want. So forget everything. EVERY-THING.