What appeals to me about the "Karmic" philosophy is that the principle applies equally to everyone, no exemptions.
Everyone's "Karma account" is their own - from the simplest creature to the most complex, from the most evil monster to the saintly, angelic and godly, even God itself. There is no transfer from one person's Karma account to another. That is the principle and I like it. Much as this principle appeals to me and I wish it to be true, I am often 'disappointed' to observe this fail repeatedly.
That in practice we are all affected by the Karma of others appears to be a contradiction until we accept the possibility that we're all but interconnected parts of a larger (in fact the largest One) and it is but a collective account and any part that identifies itself as separate has its own exclusive account and experiences. We can choose to live as 'separate' from the rest or as belonging to the larger 'One' - that is our choice or free will. Our Karmic experience is set up accordingly.
It explains why we feel the pain and joys of those we love and choose to consider as 'our own'.
The ultimate deeper truth is independent of what we individually believe or can even possibly understand - there are most likely connections to others, both loving and hostile, from the past and the present and that we are connected with people we don't acknowledge as our own.
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