Karma

I always knew Karma meant what goes around comes around but something I read yesterday stated that we are in control of karma and that karma does not control us.

Karma is very interesting because it does not ever forget what we have done in our lifetimes even though we get lulled into thinking it has. Just when we think we are in the clear and there will be no repercussions for whatever action we did, said or sometimes wished, that’s when karma comes knocking to teach us a lesson.

However if this reading is correct that we can change our karma this means that we have to be totally aware of all the lessons we are meant to learn through our daily lives and not carry any resentment, bitterness or even regret because then we are opening the door to experience the feelings of whomever or whatever  we hurt.

This was a very liberating thought for me and one that reinforces that I am in control of my destiny. I AM NEITHER MY PAST NOR AM I MY FUTURE. I AM ME AS I AM in the present moment. At all times we are at liberty to change our destinies by accepting that our destiny is a result of our output, energy and light into the world. We may not be able to change the people, places, or things around us but we can change the way we respond to or view them.

I found this insightful discussion about karma by Thanissaro Bhikku, an American Buddhist monk,  on the internet and it supports the book I read today,

“..., instead of promoting resigned powerlessness, the early Buddhist notion of karma focused on the liberating potential of what the mind is doing with every moment. Who you are — what you come from — is not anywhere near as important as the mind's motives for what it is doing right now. Even though the past may account for many of the inequalities we see in life, our measure as human beings is not the hand we've been dealt, for that hand can change at any moment. We take our own measure by how well we play the hand we've got. If you're suffering, you try not to continue the unskillful mental habits that would keep that particular karmic feedback going. If you see that other people are suffering, and you're in a position to help, you focus not on their karmic past but your karmic opportunity in the present: Someday you may find yourself in the same predicament that they're in now, so here's your opportunity to act in the way you'd like them to act toward you when that day comes.”

Our lives are not predesigned because we have been given the power of choice and can change our journey as many times as we see fit as long as we understand that we will attract like energy and light according to that which we project into the world.