On Stolen Bags, Karmic Rules, and Living A Positive Life
I found out that if you live and believe the karmic rules, you don’t bug and worry around each time something bad happens to you. What is more important is that you live a positive life to attain Vipaka. I mean my bag was stolen last night with my film camera (Lomo LCA) inside it. Under some friendly acquaintances albeit accompanying friends to book in reservations made in some hotel for her birthday, I decided to stay for a long night in Smallville Complex and “let’s drink to that” sessions with friends like Nescel, Stephen, and Jonathan (+1 other). So we were talking a lot of things up until Nescel decided to go home. Needless to say, me and Jonathan had a deal to stay for two hours the most and so we got up and transferred to another place. I placed my [sling] bag at the back of my chair and the moment I checked it again, it’s already gone. I didn’t rant or what last night since I was thinking positively that maybe the Lomo LCA was not meant for me, or I deserve to advance my skills in photography, or I really do deserve buying that other point-and-shoot camera. A good thing about blogs and Internet is that I woke up seeing Carina’s blog with a post about 10 THINGS I KNOW TO BE TRUE. The “You can’t be worried about that shit. Life goes on, man” quote probably justifies my current emotions of the day. So in lieu of everything, I state the words from the Samyutta Nikaya which is: “According to the seed that’s sown, And in this nook, I strongly say thank you so much Lomo LCA camera for making sweet, sweet memories! I bid you goodbye and looking forward for that other point-and-shoot camera (Thank you so much Mike and Von) which I am itching to use just to compensate the battle of my emotions inside. Whatever you did to me, it will multiply back to you maybe a thousand times.
So is the fruit you reap there from,
Doer of good will gather good,
Doer of evil, evil reaps,
Down is the seed and thou shalt taste
The fruit thereof.”
