AN INSIGHTFUL TAKE ON KARMA (bad and good are linearity tags) by Anita Moorjani: When I first started on my spiritual journey I did believe in Karma which is the law of cause and effect. It was found in so many Eastern spiritual teachings and it made much sense to me. If someone attacked me in this lifetime, it must have been because I attacked them in a previous lifetime. As I moved on through different teachings, I realized that Karma was a central aspect of linear time. In the world of separation and duality, linear time is where the law of cause and effect can operate. If mind creates our reality, then would the mind which is the decision maker be the cause with the effect being the manifestation of that decision? To me I resonate with the mind being the cause and the world being the effect. Whenever we have a problem in the world, anger, fear, depression etc., we can go back to the mind which is the cause I feel. If I am angry and upset right now it is because I want to be. I can take full responsibility for my anger as I feel no one is to blame for the way I feel. I can then can go back to the mind and choose peace instead. In that way, I am in charge of my creations and their outcomes. Anita tells us that during her NDE she came to realize that It was as though every moment held infinite possibilities, and where I was at that point in time was a culmination of every decision, every choice, and every thought of my entire life Anita goes on to say: As my health declined, I didn’t like the way others felt sorry for me and made allowances for me, as though I were different or not normal. I also felt very uncomfortable about the way those from my culture thought it was my karma—that I must have done something in a previous life to warrant this punishment. Because I, too, believed in karma, it made me feel as though I had done something to be ashamed of in order to deserve this. It seemed as if I were being judged, and it also made me feel helpless. If this is retribution for something I did in a previous life, I wondered, how can I change it? What can I possibly do about it now? Thoughts like this would leave me feeling completely hopeless about my situation. I also understood that the cancer was not some punishment for anything I’d done wrong, nor was I experiencing negative karma as a result of any of my actions, as I’d previously believed. It was as though every moment held infinite possibilities, and where I was at that point in time was a culmination of every decision, every choice, and every thought of my entire life. My many fears and my great power had manifested as this disease. If we create our reality, do you think people will be punished for what they do through karma? A: I view karma as being more a concept of balance rather than cause and effect. For example, I would never use the phrase bad karma, as I don’t believe there is such a thing. I simply believe all aspects of life are needed to create the whole. Neither do I believe anymore that we live out all our lives sequentially in linear time, which is the framework that many people have for their ideas about karma. It’s what I was brought up to think as well. In the NDE state, however, I realized that every moment in all our lives—past, present, future, known, unknown, and unknowable—exist simultaneously, as though outside of what we know as time. I became aware that I already was everything I was trying to attain, and I believe that’s true for everyone. All things that we perceive as positive, negative, good, or bad are simply parts of the perfect, balanced Whole. ~ Anita Moorjani
Posted on: Mon, 04 Aug 2014 01:36:03 +0000