To: K-list
Recieved: 1999/10/08 02:05
Subject: [K-list] Facing Karma
From: Maureen Heffernan
On 1999/10/08 02:05, Maureen Heffernan posted thus to the K-list:
How can we work out karma? There are thousands of things vibrating in
the muladhara chakra, and from those memory patterns they are going to
bounce up into view one after another, especially if we gain more prana
by breathing and eating correctly. When meditation begins, more karma is
released from the first chakra. Our individual karma is intensified as
the ingrained memory patterns that were established long ago accumulate
and are faced, one after another, after another, after another.
In our first four or five years of striving on the path we face the
karmic patterns that we would never have faced in this life had we
not consciously sought enlightenment. Experiences come faster, closer
together. So much happens in the short span of a few months or even a
few days, catalyzed by the new energies released in meditation and by
our efforts to purify mind and body, it might have taken us two or three
lifetimes to face them all. They would not have come up before then,
because nothing would have stimulated them.
First, we must know fully that we ourselves are the cause of all that
happens. As long as we externalize the source of our successes and
failures, we perpetuate the cycles of karma, good or bad. As long as we
blame others for our problems or curse the seeming injustices of life,
we will not find within ourselves the understanding of karmic laws that
will transmute our unresolved patterns. We must realize that every
moment
in our life, every joy and every sorrow, can be traced to some source
within us. There is no one "out there" making it all happen. We make it
happen or not happen according to the actions we perform, the attitudes
we
hold and the thoughts we think. Therefore, by gaining conscious control
of our thoughts and attitudes by right action, we can control the flow
of karma. Karma, then, is our best spiritual teacher. We spiritually
learn and grow as our actions return to us to be resolved and dissolved.
The second way to face karma is in deep sleep and meditation. Seeds
of karma that have not even expressed themselves can be traced in deep
meditation by one who has many years of experience in the within. Having
pinpointed the unmanifested karmic seed, the jnani can either dissolve
it in intense light or inwardly live through the reaction of his past
action. If his meditation is successful, he will be able to throw out
the vibrating experiences or desires which are consuming the mind. In
doing this, in traveling past the world of desire, he breaks the wheel
of karma which binds him to the specific reaction which must follow
every
action. That experience will never have to happen on the physical plane,
for its vibrating power has already been absorbed in his nerve system.
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