Karma – What is Karma and how does it work?
Wikipedia – Karma means action, work, or deed. It also refers to the spiritual principle of cause and effect where intent and actions of an individual (cause) influence the future of that individual (effect). Good intent and good deeds contribute to good karma and future happiness; while bad intent and bad deeds contribute to bad karma and future suffering.
This is a very accurate definition of Karma. We could say that Loving intentions and actions create Loving karma which is wonderful and unloving intentions and unloving actions create unloving karma which is experienced as different kinds of pain.
I believe that the reason Karma has never been explained in detail before is that in general, it has not been understood that the universe, our minds and four bodies, go to great effort to prove to us that our beliefs are true, even when they are not. We are all designed that way. The universe will mirror your beliefs. Whatever is happening in your life, the experience you are creating or receiving as a result of your action or inaction as life moves on, is a mirror of what you believe, moment by moment. When you are in Love and experiencing Love, this is fantastic, totally awesome, heaven on earth. When you are feeling states of unloving emotions and experiences which come from your unloving beliefs, this can be annoying, fearful, boring, painful and even very painful. Therefore, it stands to reason that you can empower yourself by learning more about how Karma, the results of your intentions and actions, work.
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Karma is interwoven into the fabric of the Earth Project in such a way that it governs the way we live and enables us to learn from our actions and reactions and our choices to act, not act or react. The Karma system is so ingenious that its one purpose is to teach us that if we act and react in Love, we will feel great and if we act and react in an unloving way, we will experience pain. If you act or react in a Loving way towards other people, animals, plants, the earth, etc… you will feel your Love and you will be able to feel some of their/its joy or pleasure and if you act or react in an unloving way towards other people, animals, plants, the earth, etc… you will feel your pain and some of or all of their pain depending on the situation.
The way that Karma works enables us to have free will, the ability to choose Love or pain. Now why is free will so important?
Imagine what our lives would be like if we did not have the choice to do anything unloving or painful. If we couldn’t lie, couldn’t steal, or cheat or kill or interrupt, even if we tried because the metaphysics of life wouldn’t allow us to, then we would have very limited choices. If we didn’t have pain, if love was all we could experience, we would not be able to develop or strengthen our willpower because everything would be so easy. There could be very little growth and any growth that did happen would take a very long time to come about. This would make for a boring existence, but we wouldn’t know we were bored because we couldn’t feel the pain of it. We wouldn’t be able to grow very much. Progression in intelligence would slow to the speed of a snail. So, choice gives us the ability to grow intelligent in a short amount of time.
Look how far mankind has progressed in the past one hundred years. All of us working together have progressed our technologies in incredible ways—from horse travel to flights to the Moon and Mars in a hundred years. It is the motivation of a hungry stomach, the possibility of achieving a happy heart, and an active creative mind that make our lives wondrous, beautiful, fascinating, fun, and worth striving for, worth getting up for every morning. All this incredible growth has come about because we can be motivated and have choices.
So, the creators of Earth have built into the metaphysics of Earth a system of consequential laws we call Karma that govern the results of our actions and lack of actions in some cases. For there to be free will, we must be able to make a mistake that might harm ourselves or others, create a little pain for someone, and interrupt someone’s space a little knowing that if we do there will be painful aftereffects. This gives us choices, provides excitement, helps us develop strength of mind, builds character and introduces all of us to the playing fields of Love verses pain.
There is a lot more information about Karma and how it works, the specifics of what happens when a person lies, cheats, steals, kills, etc… contained in Growing Big In Love. If you want to access it you will have to buy the book.