Today more about how to free yourself from karma, and how exactly is your life predestined. What is the process that makes it happen? Can we influence the whole process, and somehow get out of this predetermination? First step would be to understand how exactly karma shapes our lives. Are we doing something that facilitates this process? Or does it happen regardless of what we do or don’t?
It happens through the thoughts. We are already born with the whole package of mental concepts, delivered through the thoughts. By attaching to them, we are executing the karma. So the answer to the question how to free yourself from karma is simple. Stop attaching to the thoughts. When we don’t attach to the thoughts, the concept of self or I or ego disintegrates, and there’s no more karma, which is attached to the particular human form.
It’s a very straightforward process, that can be accomplished by practice.
In the previous video I spoke about direct and indirect experience of existence. Indirect, mentally processed experience of existence, is shaped by karma. Direct experience of existence has no karma whatsoever. So we practice.
For as long as we stay engaged with the thoughts, our life is only a mechanical execution of karma, nothing else. Relentless repetition of same old thoughts, very trivial and banal, without any insight, same old, mostly meaningless actions that stem from those thoughts, and despite all the effort we might be putting into changing things, attachment to the thoughts just runs karma as usual, uninterrupted. Everything is already predetermined or predestined. Life on a physical level, run by karma, is a mind boggling repetition of eating and sleeping and engaging in repetitive actions in between. And then it ends anyway, sooner or later, again depending on karma. What a hollow, empty, and pointless experience of existence.
So we practice detachment from thoughts. That’s how we go beyond karma, beyond birth and death. We see things unfold, we see our bodies go their own way, we notice all the nonsensical thoughts coming through without interruption. Not affected by any of it. Connected straight with the source. We are all that, pure existence itself, part of the stream.
Get ready to step out of karma.
Take care,
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Awakening with Di