Buddhist practice: the laws of karma 2.

Originally in this life, I had no idea at all what karma was or did. I was brought up as a Christian, and totally unaware of Buddhist principles and theory. It was not until a friend of mine mentioned karma in 2006 or 2007, that I looked at the subject and reviewed my observations.

I read a few library books dealing with the subject from the Buddhist viewpoint, and quickly learned and accepted karmic law as a fact. Friends noted how fast I learned, so I believe that I must previously have understood karmic law. One moment I saw karma as a misunderstood reasoning of little importance, the next I seemed to have grasped it and understood it fully. I assume that this is either because I have learned it before and then forgotten, or that my enthusiasm to learn the truth was strong enough to accept it when I learned it.

Getting back to the mozzie that decided to 'wake me up' on one recent night, I can take the rules of karma, my learning in regard to them, and my experience of karma, and see that the mozzie was supposed to annoy me due to previous actions in opposition to mozzies, or bugs in general.

Because of what I had previously done in opposition toward insects in general, or mosquitoes, I had to suffer a suitable karmic effect. I was cruel to insects in the past, so they had to be cruel to me now - and to alleviate my problem from bugs bugging me, I had to experience the result of my having bugged, murdered, damaged, and otherwise been cruel to them.

And yes, in the past of this present life, I HAD been cruel to insects, not recognizing them as equal beings, but as annoying pests!