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Moving to a different city means you'll get different karma?

lotuspadmalotuspadma
edited July 2011 in General Banter
This may be nonsense, but I think I read somewhere that if you move to a different city, you'll receive different karma results. That is, if you stay, you may... I don't know... die within a week. But if you move, you may not! Or the other way around. Some very different karma comes along according to which place in the world you are. I would like to know if that's even remotely true, 'cause I want to move out from my hometown. I've always hated it! I know the state of your mind is more important than your city, but it's really a bad city. No one likes it in here, except people from somewhere else. They probably think they can't do any better since they come from worse places. Well, anyway, there's a really cute and small town I'm comtemplating moving into, but this whole different karma thing is making me wonder. Thoughts?

Thank you very much!

Comments

  • JeffreyJeffrey Veteran
    Well obviously you will have a different experience in a different town. For example in a city you might get run over by a taxi. In the country you might get run over by a tractor.

    In the city you can go to starbucks. In the country you can take a walk in nature and see stars.

    Its about choices not fate. I had a friend with OCD who stressed about whether he should live in ohio or florida. I told him if he is in ohio to be in ohio and if he is in florida to be in florida. I would leave room for choosing to move also, but there is no sense in being on the fence you should go all the way one or the other and try to be happy wherever you choose.

  • CloudCloud Veteran
    edited July 2011
    Karma has nothing to do with anything except your intentional actions, and the results that may come of those immediately or in the future. Everything is tied together, inter-connected, one field of emptiness where there is not a stitch of separation. Moving does not change anything, because there is no "place" in truth just as there are no "things".

    The teaching of karma is meant to shed light on mental states, on how your actions become trends and suffering comes to you again and again because you have not learned to act in accord with nature. When we begin acting rightly, following the path, the mind is led toward a point where all attachments are shed and no further karma is generated. That is the end.
  • genkakugenkaku Northampton, Mass. U.S.A. Veteran
    In Alcoholics Anonymous, there is a warning any of us might heed: A "geographical cure" is both a distraction and a myth. A Buddhist might dream of moving to a monastery, a city dweller might dream of moving to the countryside, etc. But as a friend of mine once pointed out aptly, "Wherever you go, there you are." It's not so much the geography that needs changing, it's the mind.
  • DakiniDakini Veteran
    Well obviously you will have a different experience in a different town. For example in a city you might get run over by a taxi. In the country you might get run over by a tractor.
    Ever the optimist, Jeffrey. (Just kidding.) ; )
  • AmeliaAmelia Veteran
    In Alcoholics Anonymous, there is a warning any of us might heed: A "geographical cure" is both a distraction and a myth. A Buddhist might dream of moving to a monastery, a city dweller might dream of moving to the countryside, etc. But as a friend of mine once pointed out aptly, "Wherever you go, there you are." It's not so much the geography that needs changing, it's the mind.
    Yeah
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