Shortcuts to Killer Karma #1
Karma was invented more than 2,500 years ago in India to answer nagging questions about the inequalities of life. People wanted to know why one person had separate houses for his family and his animals while another person shared his bed and sometimes his wife with a goat. When philosophers tried to explain this disparity by saying, “Stuff happens,” inquiring minds were not satisfied, so philosophers told them, “OK. You get what you deserve. Get used to it.” Read more
Today in Karma History
03/17/461
Saint Patrick, Christian missionary, bishop, and apostle of Ireland, died at Saul, Downpatrick, Ireland. Born in Great Britain, most likely in Scotland, Patrick was part of a well-to-do Christian family of Roman citizenship. At the age of sixteen he was captured and enslaved by Irish marauders.
Patrick worked as a herder in Ireland for the next six years. During that time he depended on a deepening religious faith for comfort. Following the counsel of a voice he heard in a dream one night, Patrick escaped and found passage on a ship to Britain, where he was eventually reunited with his family.
Some time later Patrick had another dream. This time an individual named Victoricus gave him a letter, entitled "The Voice of the Irish." As he read the letter, Patrick heard the voices of Irishmen pleading him to return to their country and to walk among them once more.
After studying for the priesthood, Patrick was ordained a bishop. He returned to Ireland in 433 and began preaching the gospel, converting thousands people, and building churches around the country. After forty years of living in poverty, teaching, traveling, and working tirelessly, Patrick died on March 17, 461, in Saul, where he had built his first church.
Much of what is known about Patrick's legendary life comes from the Confessio, a book he wrote during his last years.