Did Karma Kill Don Imus's Radio Show?

Bill O’Reilly says it was karma that got Don Imus fired. “He has hurt a lot of people in the past.” What goes around comes around.

Imagine my shock when the shock jock was held accountable for his actions? And if the networks didn’t hold him accountable, karma would have anyway.

So what’s karma got to do with it? Everything!

In Hinduism, karma literally means "deed" or "act" and is the universal principle of cause and effect, action and reaction. Karma is a natural law of the mind, just as gravity is a law of matter.

Karma is not fate, for man acts with free will, creating his own destiny. The Vedas tell us that if we sow evil, we will reap evil; if we sow goodness, we will reap goodness.

It turns out that Karma refers to all our actions and their parallel reactions in this and previous lives, all of which determine our future.

Looks like Don Imus is getting a taste of his own medicine.

So what does this have to do with us?

The bottom line is, everyone one of us has thoughts that are less than honorable. If you listen in to your own thoughts, you’ll hear lots of judgment, about yourself and others.

What you and I do is edit what we say out loud. We may think dark, evil or negative things… all day long. And then we hopefully replace the negative thoughts with positive ones.

Debbie Ford the author of, The Dark Side of the Light Chasers says, “It is only when you have the courage to see yourself exactly as you are without any self-deception or illusion that you will have the power and the courage to radically be conscious of those we affect.

Maybe if Don Imus had taken time to self-reflect, he would have embraced his shdow instead of projecting it on others.

The great 13th century Sufi mystic and poet Jalal ud-Din Rumi, whose writings have illuminated the darkness for many, shows how important it is to welcome the internal offenders so we don’t offend others.
Reprinted from the Sun-Sentinel column by Liz Sterling.

The Guest House:

This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.

A joy, a depression, meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.

Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they are a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still, treat each guest honorably.

He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.
The dark thought, the shame, the malice,
meet them at the door laughing and invite them in.

Be grateful for whoever comes,
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.

Lucky for Don Imus -- he can blame it all on karma.