{"id":71185,"date":"2026-03-12T22:22:47","date_gmt":"2026-03-12T21:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=71185"},"modified":"2026-03-18T17:13:56","modified_gmt":"2026-03-18T16:13:56","slug":"karma-is-opportunity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/karma-is-opportunity\/","title":{"rendered":"Karma Is Opportunity"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Karma is accident (<em>Zufall<\/em> in German): that which befalls you. At least in appearance. I cannot produce it myself\u2014only experience it as &#8220;instant.&#8221; Why? Human action disturbs the harmony of the world and is answered: every action meets its response. It befalls those who acted, as their world. Accident is karma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Karma is doing (in Sanskrit). Karma means: beholding action within the whole. What still needs to be experienced. What needs to be done. In karma\u2019s gaze, the forgotten deed appears as the cause of my experience of the world. It connects incarnations and illuminates the traces of the gods within a life\u2019s unfolding. Doing is karma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Karma is opportunity (in anthroposophy). At the moment karma speaks\u2014the echo of my deeds\u2014the threads of that same deed unite anew. Usually people. Everyone and everything comes together. A template. An invitation. I can repeat, release, connect, and take a new direction. Opportunity is karma.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Translation <\/strong>Laura Liska<br><strong>Image<\/strong> Karo Kollwitz, <em>Cutting edge<\/em>, 2014<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Correction (March 18, 2026)<\/em>: At the author&#8217;s request, the translation has been revised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Karma is accident (Zufall in German): that which befalls you. At least in appearance. I cannot produce it myself\u2014only experience it as &#8220;instant.&#8221; Why? Human action disturbs the harmony of the world and is answered: every action meets its response. It befalls those who acted, as their world. Accident is karma. Karma is doing (in Sanskrit). Karma means: beholding action within the whole. What still needs to be experienced. What needs to be done. In karma\u2019s gaze, the forgotten deed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9165,"featured_media":70830,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8796],"tags":[11767,11768,8819],"class_list":["post-71185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-column","tag-ausgabe-9-2026-en","tag-english-issue-11-2026","tag-seeds"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9165"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=71185"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71358,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71185\/revisions\/71358"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}