To the founder of Karma Foundation, LLC, Beverly Hills, CA.:
I will preface this by stating this is my opinion.
In its truest form, a group calling themselves
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The Karma Foundation
would not conjure up thoughts of Playboy Mansion Parties and Gambling. As a matter of fact, I am sure there are many Buddhist monks that would look at what your are doing and frown upon the fact you are taking a word connected to their religion and doing what you are doing with it...it is simply misleading.
It's like Hansel and Gretel and the Candy House...or in your case Kandy House where you lure unsuspecting individuals by using
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Karma
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giving
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girls
and selling sex and gambling for ultimately your own personal gain. Because ultimately, the buck stops at you.
Do you know what Karma is?
By the exercise of his own Karma, a man can exercise control, crushing the covetousness, malevolence and harmfulness leading to rebirthLet's take your Karma Gambling Site:
The Buddha taught that suffering and dissatisfaction stem from craving - to eliminate suffering, one must eliminate craving. Gambling seems to be an activity that strengthens craving and therefore can never bring lasting satisfaction. It is said to cause
avarice, unpleasantness, hatred, deception, cheating, wildness, lying, and senseless and harsh speech.
This is the karma YOU are putting out into the world!The healthy alternative to gambling is giving. When we gamble we aim to acquire more for ourselves. Through giving, however, we aim to offer more to others. One leads to a feeling of emptiness despite whatever short-lived thrill we might experience, the other to a feeling of contentment.
The sexual exploitation of women, walking around naked with only body paint covering up the genitalia
Again, connecting this with the word
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Karma
(which people would connect with Buddhism): here is that of monks and nuns who embrace the holy life fully and are therefore celibate, as was the Buddha. The reason for this is that sexual desire - which is seen to be deeply rooted - is an aspect of craving (the cause of suffering) which needs to be put aside once and for all on the path toward enlightenment.
Your organization, and its' founder, represent NOTHING that has to do with Karma, its' thoughts and beliefs.
It's very sad, because you could have gotten it right, the world would have been a better place. Instead your
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Foundation
is common just like the masses and it does nothing to help humanity in a single huge way, the way it should. Giving sums of money here and there does not do the trick.
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