My response to "reality" and/or "imagination" is pondering "fate" and/or "destiny". As I've imagined the conundrum - Fate is that which we are born into. Fate is being born in to a genetic mutation, a life long physical challenge, the nation, environment, and culture. Then there's your parents, and extended family, who play more of a direct role in shaping everything, until maturity allows the individual to "think" for themselves, to get out of the house, to decide how to fashion their adult family, and how to survive and thrive according to one's own terms. Destiny is the vehicle through which "free will" manifests. Destiny is what one makes out of their fate. There is no way to "prove" fate vs destiny - but one might imagine destiny as a concept is created out of a mix of reality and imagination; and destiny is what one can create in a shape shifting reality.
I take issue with the term karma, as that theory implies there is a tracking service that carries over between lifetimes. Some may call it "Mind stream". What I cringe at is the notion that one's "karma" can't be fulfilled in a single lifetime. How can one say a baby born in poverty must have been an ungrateful selfish person in a previous lifetime? I'll leave that topic alone for now. :-)
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My response to "reality" and/or "imagination" is pondering "fate" and/or "destiny". As I've imagined the conundrum - Fate is that which we are born into. Fate is being born in to a genetic mutation, a life long physical challenge, the nation, environment, and culture. Then there's your parents, and extended family, who play more of a direct role in shaping everything, until maturity allows the individual to "think" for themselves, to get out of the house, to decide how to fashion their adult family, and how to survive and thrive according to one's own terms. Destiny is the vehicle through which "free will" manifests. Destiny is what one makes out of their fate. There is no way to "prove" fate vs destiny - but one might imagine destiny as a concept is created out of a mix of reality and imagination; and destiny is what one can create in a shape shifting reality.
I take issue with the term karma, as that theory implies there is a tracking service that carries over between lifetimes. Some may call it "Mind stream". What I cringe at is the notion that one's "karma" can't be fulfilled in a single lifetime. How can one say a baby born in poverty must have been an ungrateful selfish person in a previous lifetime? I'll leave that topic alone for now. :-)