A Dangerous Passion For Wisdom

In a frenzy of karmic delineation,
Motoyama* dramatically decries
everything we feel passion for
as possible sources of karma

Even the quest for knowledge, insight
and wisdom, citing religions’ scions and
scientific savants becoming emotionally
attached to their own theories

Rejecting contrary evidence, therefore
their fixation on knowledge creates karma
for them and their descendants,
BUT he misses the point:

A passionate quest for wisdom would
protect them against taking pleasure in
false evidence; when they are derailed
by emotional attachment to falsehoods

They have lost their fixation on truth
and THEN karma arises - in an upsurge
of karmic depiction he even warns us
against a passion for music

Attachment to joy laughter and fun can
also bring the wrath of karma down; he
sees unemotional reason as the savior
of man, relegating emotions to

A dangerous subconscious realm, BUT
emotions are necessary for interaction
between world and body; enabling us
to set priorities to survive our lives

As described in a book by Damasio
“Descartes’ Error”, he should have said
“I think and feel, therefore I am”; because
damage to the frontal cortex

Destroying our emotional centre and
depriving us of emotional feedback,
take our decision-making ability away
so we can’t use our reason…

If we were to take Motoyama’s claims at
face value, his book should be put down
as we’re showing a dangerous passion
for wisdom and information -

We would be incurring karmic effects
by reading his book on
reincarnation!

*Dr Hiroshi Motoyama “Karma and Reincarnation”, translated by Rande Brown Ouchi,1992