The word karma simply put, just means action. For every action, including action of the mind, there is a reaction. It can be very simple...to an aware mind.
You're kind of along the right lines here...but...
The problem is, the Western mind likes to apply logic to all things, when logic doesn't apply, the Western mind becomes uncomfortable. In terms of a Downs Syndrome child having 'deserved' it's condition due to actions in a previons life. This is the kind of confusing statement Glen Hordle came out with some years ago causing great public outrage, and understandably so. In my opinion, Downs Syndrome children generally live very happy and loving lives and that would be more likely due to a loving and kind mind in a previous life....karma isn't a punishment. In fact, the parents of such children would be feeling the effects of their own karma with regards to their way of dealing with such a situation.
Sometimes a little knowledge about a subject can be worse than no knowledge. The law of karma cannot be understood or comprehended by just a passing interest. It can take years of intense study to become aware of the way the complex law of karma affects us all. It certainly isn't something that can be looked up online or read about in a few books to be able to have any understanding of, or any valid opinion on
There are prisons that have mother and baby units....
"There has been a dramatic rise in the numbers of women in British prisons. The figure in England has more than doubled over the past two decades to 4,144 – the highest rate of female imprisonment in the European Union. But because so many sentences are short, that figure disguises the fact that some 10,181 women were put behind bars last year alone. More than half of those women are mothers. According to statistics published by the Ministry of Justice in March, there are about 200,000 children with a father or mother in prison – more than three times the number of children in state care.
Thanks to the mother and baby units which the Prison Service has established inside eight of Britain's 13 women's jails, it is now possible for about 80 of those children to be with their mothers – but behind bars.
One of the units is at Eastwood Park, a closed women's prison in a rural setting between Gloucester and Bristol. To get to the low brick mother and baby unit (MBU) you have to pass through three 20ft high green metal gates. But once through the final gate, there are no locks on the doors.
In the grounds there is a small slide and a climbing frame, a set of hoops made from giant pencils and, amid the flower beds, a set of willow arches beneath which babies can gaze up from their prams at the fluttering leaves. Inside, a row of buggies fills the hallway.
The prisoners and their babies sleep in unlocked rooms rather than cells. Each room has its own bathroom and is fitted with plain but attractive furniture and wooden cots. To one side – past a large tank filled with black and gold tropical fish – is a TV room with squashy leather sofas, a playpen and a big smiley mat on the floor. At the end of the ground floor is a large nursery with tiny tables, jigsaw floor mats, a sandpit and a low library of children's books."
Its a bit thin on the ground in Stockport also, in fact there's none on the ground...there was lots in North Wales when I was there just two weeks ago though....
With regards to the op, I find meeting different people from all backgrounds enlightens my life, especially if I'm able to learn from them, and give back also.
And I miss my beautiful English Bully, Bodie, much more than I was ready for, but I will always treasure the wonderful sixteen years we spent together.
Haha, they seem to enjoy living mainly along the Mersey Valley in South Manchester, but perhaps understandably have not ventured west along the Mersey to Liverpool. Those scousers would probably eat them.
The numbers have been increasing at an amazing rate over the last ten years or so especially in London. They're ring neck parakeets, they originate from the foothills of the Himalayas and cope well with the cold weather.
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