KARMA
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EnglishVoice Age
Middle Aged (35-54)Accents
North American (General)Transcript
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karma is a difficult subject, but one of the reasons you are encouraged to work with what happens to you rather than blame it on others is that what happens is somehow a karmic result off things that you have done before. This kind of teaching on karma can be easily misunderstood. People get into a heavy duty sin and guilt trip, feeling that if things were going wrong, that means if they did something bad, they're being punished. That's not the idea at all. The idea of karma is that you continually get the teachings that you need in orderto open your heart to the degree that you didn't understand in the past. How to stop protecting your soft spot, how to stop armoring your heart. You're given this gift of teachings in the form of your life to give you everything you need to learn how toe open further. I saw a cartoon that describes this. A head of iceberg lettuce was sitting in a garden saying, Oh no, How did I get in this vegetable garden again? I wanted to be a wildflower, the caption reads. Oscar is born again as a head of iceberg lettuce in order to overcome his fear of being eaten. One can think from a bigger perspective than this whole notion of reward and punishment. You could see your life as an adult education course, some of the curriculum you like and some you don't like. Some of what comes up you find workable, some you don't. That's the curriculum for attaining enlightenment. The question is, how do you work with it? When you begin to touch your heart or let your heart be touched, you begin to discover that it's bottomless, that it doesn't have any resolution that this hard is huge, vast and limitless. You begin to discover how much warmth and gentleness is there as well as how much space your world seems less solid, more roomy and spacious. The burden lightens in the beginning, it might feel like sadness or a shaky feeling accompanied by a lot of fear. But your willingness to feel the fear to make fear your companion is growing. You willing to get to know yourself a this deep level. After a while, this same feeling begins to turn into a longing to raise all the walls, a longing to be fully human and to live in your world without always having to shut down and close off. When certain things come along, it begins to turn into a longing to be there for your friends when they're in trouble, to be of riel. Help to this poor, aching planet. Curiously enough, along with this longing and this sadness and this tenderness, there's an immense sense of well being unconditional well being which doesn't have anything to do with pleasant or unpleasant, good or bad, hope or fear, disgrace or fame. It's something that simply comes to you when you feel that you can keep your heart open.