The Buddha Project Reply To: Y2Q18) Individual and collective karma
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A philosophically very interesting aspect of how we as humans do in relation to each other. I would like to say that there are several levels of social/collective karma. The more private level within a family – which can consist of blood ties or close friends who are the family of our choice. Worldviews and values are shared, which means that actions based on these take place in interaction with “like-minded”, i.e. a creation and recreation of patterns of action.
Then there is the more collective level in, for example, an area of work, for my own part in academia. Here, certain expected patterns of action are created and recreated where we expect and expect others to act within specific frameworks. Karma – the seed of patterns of action – is planted and grows by repeating the actions and notions of the state of affairs created in this social context. We repeat them as if it were a truth in itself.