Power of Three

This has bothered me for many months, now. A friend once asked me about the Rule of Three, that whatever you give comes back to you times three. Well, his question was thus:

If I were to do act (1a) and I receive karma x 3 (act (3a)) for it, would the next action to follow act (3a) then be multiplied by 3? Does that mean that all actions become exponential and increase in their greatness? What if there aren't enough negative acts to balance the positive ones? How can the world experience something so great or terrible?

I didn't know how to answer this because by his reasoning, act (1a) turns into act (3a) which becomes act (9a), then act (27a), then act (81a), etc. Where is this seen in the world? What examples can be construed? Is it mathematically possible?

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Permalink Reply by Luna Phoenix on November 5, 2009 at 9:14pm: That's what I figured. I never thought about "karma" as being exponential, so when it was presented to me as such, I had to question others about their thoughts. Do a good deed because it's right, not because you gain "points" from it.

Permalink Reply by Herne on November 5, 2009 at 9:15pm: I find the concept of the rule of 3 to be ridiculous. Science tells us that for every action there is an opposite but EQUAL reaction. Sending out something and getting it back threefold makes utterly no sense.

Permalink Reply by Luna Phoenix on November 5, 2009 at 9:49pm: Thank you for your input!

Permalink Reply by bella on November 5, 2009 at 10:04pm: i doubt it is meant to be this complicated...simple law of return...what you put out there comes back to you x3.

Permalink Reply by darkrose0486 on November 5, 2009 at 10:21pm: my take on what this means is: if you do something good for someone something will come back to you 3xs as good as what you did for that person.

If you do something bad it will come back 3xs worse then what you did.