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A Truth about Karma that You Won't Hear

from the Mainstream Version

12-15 minutes

by Jonathon Twiz

December 13, 2015

from Collective-Evolution Website

Spanish version
 Now
as a man is like this or like that,
according as he acts and according as he behaves, so
will he be;
a man of good acts will become good, a man of bad
acts, bad;
he becomes pure by pure deeds, bad by bad deeds;

And here they say that a person consists of desires,

and as is his desire, so is his will;
and as is his will, so is his deed;
and whatever deed he does, that he will reap.

Brihadaranyaka Upanishad

7th Century BC

In the West we look at Karma as a cosmic law of justice -

cause and effect, what goes around comes around, etc.

You may be of the large majority in the West that look at

karma as the balancing scale of justice that
distinguishes right from wrong. Esoterically we look at
karma as something that will affect you lifetime after
lifetime, as in, the actions that you make in this life will
affect the way you live in the next life.

I don't have any knowledge of what is beyond the here

and now; with regard to this present moment, living in
the now, you and I are still here, and that is as much
certainty as we can get.

It is for this reason why I will not talk about karma with
regard to its effects on the next life. What I will talk about
is the way in which karma affects you in this lifetime.

There are a lot more subtleties and layers of the human

psyche involved in the way karma plays out.

Your reality is your perspective, and over time your

perspective of yourself is going to change based on your
memories of your past actions and intentions. This will
project an identity of who you think you are, which will
enhance or diminish your sense of self worth.

One thing that is for sure is that who we are at the

present moment is not who we will be in the future. As
we live life and collect wisdom in our library of
experience, we become more conscious of ourselves.

Whether we choose to use this ever growing

consciousness to guide our actions is up to us (bearing
in mind the consequences if we don't).

The simple awareness of your ego, past actions, and

intentions gives you the freedom to carve a new destiny
that will release you from your karma.

"No matter what happened to you in your past, you are

 not your past, you are the resources and the
capabilities you glean from it. And that is the basis for
all change."

Jordan Belfort

Awareness is the first step when it comes to removing

karma.

If you are not aware of your actions, intentions, and

feelings, you will continue to make free choices that are
heavily influenced by these same,

feelings–>intentions–>actions.

People who are unconscious do not evolve.

They are forced to learn things the hard way in life, and
the more stubborn they are the more difficult it becomes
for them to break free of their karma. Living an
unconscious life, even if you get away with your choices,
puts you in situations that don't allow you to be free.

For example, greed will attract the most fickle and

conditional friendships and relationships in your life.

Your ego will be built on a false identity of fleeting

possessions which can lead to status anxiety. You will
attract situations in your life where people make
unconscious greedy decisions against your best
interests. There is a wide spectrum of less than optimal
scenarios that can and likely will occur as a result of
living an unconscious life.

Again, this isn't a universal punishment, or a cosmic law

of justice. The universe is indifferent, and the notion of
good and bad are constructs in our own minds.

The more selfless you become, the more chaotic you

become to humanity. The more selfish you are, the more
disharmonious you become with humanity. This person
has a total lack of empathy for the situations they cause
and in time they will increase the likelihood of running
into situations that reflect their behavior towards them.

This is the aspect of karma where the external

environment that you attract becomes your karma.

When you take from someone or harm someone, you are

adding chaos and causing more disharmony in your life
and in the collective. When you are empathetic and
selflessly contributing to the collective, you are more in
harmony with it.

People who have awareness of themselves are in a

much better position than the unconscious person. This
person may still continue to make selfish, ego-based
decisions, but they are far more likely to be slapped in
the face by the guilt. This guilt may even become further
magnified if a psychedelic is taken.

The guilt one experiences should not become your

identity, but rather a wake up call to rise to the occasion
toward becoming a more evolved person.

This is the type of karma where you're feeling judged

from within; your own mind is telling you that you are out
of sync with your higher self. A bad trip can be nothing
more than a look in the mirror, seeing all the ugly sides
of yourself that disgust you to the point where you feel
very uncomfortable with yourself.
This is how psychoactive substances force us to break
out of negative patterns of behavior; they show us our
shadow side, which ultimately scares the shit out of us.
You become aware of the two fighting wolves inside you,
one which is good, the other which is bad.

From this point on you know that you are responsible for
the wolf that wins, which is the one that you feed.

"Karma is real, part of it starts with how you're starting

to feel."

Karma is not just about bad deeds but it is also about

how you feel about yourself. Your feelings and emotions
have a lot to do with your karma.

Eckhart Tole talks about the "Pain Body," which is

another identification with the ego. It makes us feel like
victims whenever we don't get what we want, feel
misunderstood, or victimized.

There are legitimate times when we feel wronged, but

the degree to which we wallow in sorrow and/or anger
can create bad karma for ourselves, even if we truly were
the victim. Continuing to identify with these emotions
will affect your perspective, adding a negative filter to
your world.

You will then make actions based on this perspective,

which could lead to more circumstances that caused the
initial sadness/anger. You will begin to cause problems
in your reality that don't even exist, all because you are
identifying with your pain body all the time.

When working on your karma, everything on the radar is

just a tip of the iceberg. Karma is often a lack of
awareness of how your patterns of behavior (which
often come from your emotions) are holding you back.

This is why psychedelics are popular among some

people, as they have a way of showing you the karma
that you're not aware of.

Emotions can cause a lot of misunderstandings because

they filter your ability to process reality when in an
emotionally charged state of mind. Subconsciously,
unresolved emotions navigate our Ego through
potentially destructive terrain.

This can leave karmic imprints that create a repeat cycle

of more unhappy circumstances.

Emotions that we hold onto can manifest into stress

which can cause all sorts of physical symptoms. It can
even change the way the brain is hardwired. This is what
is called in Vedic and Buddhist philosophy as "Sanskara."

Sanskara is "mental impression, recollection,

psychological imprint," and this meaning in Hindu
philosophies is a foundational element of karma theory.

"According to various schools of Indian philosophy,

every action, intent or preparation by an individual
leaves asanskara (impression, impact, imprint) in the
deeper structure of his or her mind.

These impressions then await volitional fruition in that

individual's future, in the form of hidden expectations,
circumstances or unconscious sense of self-worth.

These Sanskaras manifest as tendency, karmic

 impulse, subliminal impression, habitual potency or
innate dispositions."

Wikipedia

Embrace your karma, use it as a teacher, make friends

with it.

It's not judging or punishing you, but it is telling you the

truth about yourself without holding anything back. It is
the most honest account of how to conduct your human
experience. As long as you choose to evolve, you can
suffer successfully through the events in life that slow
you down and/or make you feel insecure.

Karma is a very real thing. It is not just our actions that

create karma, but also the way we think, especially the
way we think about ourselves. The grumpier you are, the
more assholes you meet.

Our Ego and the actions that spur from it brings us into
resonance with situations and people of similar
vibration. These conditions that we unknowingly put
ourselves in facilitate more actions and ways of thinking
that lead to more karmic consequences.

Does the Ego create the conditions or do the conditions

create the Ego?

It's a chicken and the egg paradox, but a cycle that traps
us all. I'm not telling you to abandon society and become
a monk in the mountains, rather I am telling you to just
become more conscious of how you live your life.

Don't try to be superior to your fellow man, aim to be

superior to your former self.

Who you are at the present moment is a different

incarnation of who you were before. If you allow yourself
to devolve, you will then become more confined to the
conditions of your karma. If you evolve through reason
and intuition, you will gradually escape the conditions of
your karma.

Karma is nothing more than a path you put yourself on.

As you become more aware of your decisions and
actions, you will then learn to make choices that are
mindful.

The more conscious your choices are the more you will
find yourself in situations that benefit you, and less in
situations that cause frustration, anger, sorrow, guilt, or
sadness.

Bodhidarma said that your choices are like seeds, each

of which will harvest at the right time in your life.

Karma hits you at an unexpected time in ways you

cannot prepare for, therefore making the consequences
of your actions more devastating due to the inability to
prepare for them.

If you feel guilty about something, that's your

karma.

If you feel insecure about something, that's your

karma.

If you feel frustrated about something, that's your

 karma.

If you feel angry about something, that's your

karma.

If you feel sad about something, that's your karma.

Even with things that are not your fault and genuinely
caused by circumstance, the way in which you handle
them ultimately affects your karma.

In life, there is only one direction… FORWARD.

Allowing your emotions and circumstances (no matter

how hard) to hold you back from happiness is another
form of karma.

Self survival and self aggrandizement of the ego are the

source of all karma. We have to allow ourselves to go
through the process of what we need to feel, let them go,
and then move on.

The problem is that most people don't move on...