Karmic Pots and Pans

Karmic Pots

In Heavenletter™ #1792, God plainly said there is no karma. This was quite a shock to a lot of us, and it was also freeing in that now we are freed from the long past. From the beginning, God has been saying to be done with the past and all the blame of it, reminding us that we start anew each day.

I understand that we are responsible for and accountable to the actions we make today, not last year, not past lives!

All this is by way of introduction to a true account of my pots and pans!

I have always bought high quality pots and pans from the Good Will, Salvation Army, Bargain Box, and My Lucky Day. These are heavy orange or yellow-enamel-coated cast-iron pans, made in Belgium, France, or Scandinavia — you know the kind I mean? These pots last forever.

The insides of these used pots I’ve bought are slightly darkened and mottled because an absent-minded cook had let the food burn. Otherwise, no one would donate them. (Well, of course, unless they’re moving to Argentina!)

The slight staining of the pot doesn’t interfere with the cooking at all. These are the finest pots you can get anywhere. But, still, I am aware I’m using someone else’s used pot that he or she carelessly overcooked something in.

After much thought, one day I splurged and treated myself to a beautiful new pot – Dansk. Not as heavy as the old Descoware and Le Creuset®, but how wonderful to have a brand-new pot. This one was pure white on the inside, the outside chartreuse. And you know how I love color!

Can you guess what happened soon after? You’re right. It didn’t take me long to burn something in this beautiful new pot. I think it was rice. Now the bottom inside is no more pristine than all my other pots!

I wonder if irony isn’t a constituent of what we used to call karma.

Of course, there’s great logic here in my story:

1. If you burn rice in a pan, no matter how clean you get the pot, it will still show that you burnt something in it.

2. A new pot today is already an old one tomorrow.

Now, I can also speak from experience:

The uncoated black cast iron pans, which I also love, don’t stain no matter how many times you burn something in them. With uncoated black cast iron pans, there is not even the slightest semblance of karma!

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Below you see three more pots. If you scroll to the very end, you will see the inside of my precious new pot before and after!

red pot

Yellow pot

red pan 2

pot top view

pot




Posted by Gloria on December 22nd, 2007 under these topics
Purely Personal, Heaven Letters, Godwriting Journal
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Reply from Mary on December 22, 2007

Oh dearest Gloria!

I don’t really have anything sensible to add here, just wanted to say that you made me smile and laugh ~ cos it was like looking at pictures of the pans in my own kitchen.

I too use Le Creuset ~ and guess what ~ we have the same bright colours, but I’ve never thought of taking pictures of them, or connecting them with karma!

Bless you ~ you are one fun lady to know!

Love you!

Mary

:)

Reply from Karen on December 22, 2007

Oh Gloria!
Two peas in a “pot”. As a child I watched my father cook his famous “SOS” and my mother burn her infamous canned corned beef and cabbage in the family pot. My brothers, sister and I learned to cook using that pot. As sixty odd years rolled by the family pot continued in service very well although blackend in parts and bent in others. Then came the time when my mother decided that each of her children should have something of hers. She called us together and told us to choose whatever we wanted. Since I was firstborn I had first choice. “Anything?” I asked as she pushed her box of fine jewelry toward me. “Yes” she smile benevolently. Notwithstanding platinum and precious gems I knew exactly what I would have. When I jumped up and dashed into the kitchen she was taken aback. But oh the long face when I returned with the family pot. “But we’re still using that pot!” she cried out. “Yes, I know” said I smiling so happily. But this is what I’ll have when the time comes.” My brothers thought I was “off”. My sister was a little jealous because she uses everything ALL UP and she knew that the pot still had/has at least another lifetime left in it. So she conceded that I made a good choice. She took the ruby ring with diamonds. And I have the pot of gold.
Love, Light and Aloha!

Reply from Gloria on December 22, 2007

Karen, what you wrote sounds like a wise fable.

I am taken aback by the beauty of your words and your soul.

Reply from Jack van Raders on December 23, 2007

I cook in stainless steel pots and when I burn them, happens frequently, I take the pot to the Garage get my drill out and put a wire round brush on it and in no time it is as good as new. My rice never burns as i put a few drops of olive oil in the water and put it on simmer as soon as it boils,comes out nice and dry. Yes I cook and Mieke does the dishes.at least most of the times. Tomorrow Mieke will cook as it is xmass eve I will go and collect some Mango’s and litchi’s yes summer fruit here YUM YUM.
Have a happy festive season, all and lots of love light and blessings. Jack

Reply from Jacqueline on December 23, 2007

I want all your pots.

Reply from Gloria on December 24, 2007

Dear Jacqueline, we will take your request under advisement. Right now, for the road trip, the driver has suggested that we take with us:

“One bigun (frying pan) cos we’ll be making 4 everybody and one littl’un 4 toasting spices and peanuts.

“One big pot (main course), 1 medium (sauces and side dishes) and 1 small for something…nice in small quantities.”

I don’t know what might be left, dear one.

Reply from peachbelle on June 21, 2008

Dear Gloria,

Your story about your pots is the head-bobbing-’uhhuh, me-too’ kind.

However, your statement “God plainly said there is no karma.” has me a bit confused…where has God said this?

In the King James Bible, God clearly states that “whatever ye sow, ye shall reap” …
isn’t that the entire basis of karma?

Reply from Gloria on June 21, 2008

Dear Peachbelle,
“I know, I know. The idea of no Karma was a shocker to me too.

I picked two Heavenletters that talk about this. There are more. It helps to read what God says in the context of the entire Heavenletter. Here I give only excerpts:

There Is No Karma #1776 http://www.heavenletters.org/there-no-karma.html

“There is no karma nor childhood or improper upbringing to use as an excuse. You are not to excuse yourself now because of anything. There is no one to blame, no matter how blameful they are according to everything you know, and everything the world knows. It may not have been right by any standard you know, but that doesn’t mean you are to justify your own position in life because of it. No matter how wrong the past was, no matter how inexcusable, it is a fence post you passed by. There is no need for your fingers to keep touching it. It is reverie now. It always was a passing thought. It is not more now.

“In terms of Truth, you never were Napoleon the Great nor were you a beaten or neglected child. To keep recalling that you were, and to use it as explanation for the illusory present is no better that blaming a faulty stove for the burnt soup, nor is it worthy to blame the cook nor a timer nor yourself.”

There were some wonderful edifying responses from Heavenreaders. I’m so sorry don’t know how to find them now.

Live Life Today #1780

“Looking for cause and effect is a limited view. Looking for cause is living life backward. Tracing from cause to effect, or effect to cause, is cutting off your vision. What will happen to your thoughts when you no longer believe in cause and effect? Are you afraid you will feel ungrounded?

“Its counterpart is As you sow, so shall ye reap. But it is not always certain that if you plant corn, that corn will grow. Sometimes it won’t due to one condition or another. It will grow somewhere but maybe not in your plot at this time. Life is not always an even exchange.
You may agree that it is good to let go of the past, and yet you hang on to cause and effect.

“What is the concept of karma but an unending cycle of cause and effect? It is a nice theory but one you are better off not going by. It does not do honor to expansion of life. It is closed-circuit television.

“Past lives may have existed, but you are free to transcend them. Whatever transpired once is in the past. It does not have to be in the present. It is not true that you have to have been a marauder in another life anymore than it is true that you had to be a saint.

“No longer think of making up for things. There is nothing to make up for. You begin equal now in that you have your life, and it is before you, not behind you. In any case, like Lot’s wife, it behooves you to not look back.

“If you were unkind in a past life, be kind now. If you were kind in a past life, be kind now. When you come down to it, what is the difference?

“When you believe utterly in the past and that it is recycled, you give away your God-given power. You are quick to say that I visited misfortune upon you, but reluctant to say that I gave you great power of choice, and great power of evolution.

“How much can you evolve when you think it is all spin-off from the past? What drudgery it is to keep pushing the same wheel of life.

“I suggest you let go of it. Be new-born today, not to expiate, not to atone, but just to be. Beloved, take a deep breath, and live life today from a new height. You are arisen.”

There were some wonderful edifying responses from Heavenreaders. I’m so sorry don’t know how to find them now.

Peachbelle, thanks for coming here and posting your honest responses.

How did you find this blog? Do you read Heavenletters? Do I know you by a different name?

In terms of reading Heavenletters, always go by your heart.

With love and blessings,
Gloria

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