This is Karma
To take, just because.
To take clean air from another because you want to smoke.
To take a wave without consideration of anyone else.
To take charge by whistling for service, as if you are the king of the Universe and the service staff are there at your beck and call as a priority over everyone else who are also customers.
To take the land of others. Because of some belief it is your right.
To take the dignity of a human through rape.
I love that I am in a Buddhist country where karma is the ground of belief.
Taking without giving tips the scales of karmic justice far into the pits of imbalance.
The surprise of being in Sri Lanka is being surrounded by people – guests in this land – who take and take and take. Their arrogance walks into any space before them. They bristle with defensiveness the moment anyone questions them.
There is no humanity, dignity, or life with takers. In the end, everyone loses, even the takers.
I like to believe that the takers are like hungry ghosts, the emptiness inside is a cavern. Those they take from usually have more dignity, humanity and compassion, and as such, even as their exterior lives have been hollowed out by the takers, they find happiness.
This is Karma. The justice of time and Universe notices everything.
Photo Taken August 20th 2024
