For example, one of the nicest boys I knew, a most obviously kind human, grew up, became an admirable man, and died recently, a few months after going into a coma during the running of his first marathon. This, in my mind, has the potential to negate karma's existence.
For example, I thought, seriously, that I was doing a good deed by taking the little dog that my ex husband had at his house, because he was going to take it to the animal control place. And the kids like the dog. So now it is here. But now my cat is hiding. She peed on my bed. Because she's terrified of this teensy little dog. Anyway. I thought I was doing something nice but now I have 3 loads of laundry that smell like cat piss.
Totally not the same, karma wise. Assuming karma even existed, clearly my friend's death and my laundry/dog/cat/life difficulties are not on the same karmic plane. But obviously now it doesn't exist. Because if it did, I'd have a house and ex husband'd be living in a van by the river. But that's probably why I have bad karma right now, because I wish he lived in a van by the river.
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Lauren, go get a baby gate and put it somewhere so the cat can have her own space for awhile until they get used to each other. It can be just a room or half the house--she just needs to know she can get away from the dog if she wants to. It's a pain for a bit for you, but it works. I promise she will stop peeing.
She can get over the gate, but the dog cannot. It gives her control over the situation.
Sorry about your friend. That is just awful.
I'm sorry to hear about your friend. :(
Not sure if you are serious about the karma thing, but the idea that your karma is good or bad is a misconception. The Buddhists believe we create karma every minute with every thing we do. Bad things don't happen because of bad karma, they just happen. Some believe we chose everything that will happen to us this lifetime long before we arrived. That is the kind of karma at work with your friend who passed.
Now, cutesy dog and home kitty have their own karma to work out between them. You and your laundry are just stuck in the middle. :)
When he manages to relieve himself of the responsibility of dogs/kids/whatever - and somehow I end up cleaning up after him in the process, all I can do is hope that if I out-nice him, maybe I'll come out ahead.
This I sometimes doubt, because he seems to have access to everything I do not, and he used me to get it, and he uses it against me as required.
What I cling to with hope and anticipation, is that bad things will happen to my ex-husband as a result of his horrible personhood. This does not seem very nice of me. Call it what you will.
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