The Future Is Open: Good Karma, Bad Karma, and Beyond Karma

In terms of the past, we use karmic incidents that have occurred to try to relive the success or the entertainment that we used to have. “Once I used to be happy. I want to repeat that. I used to be powerful, so let’s repeat it. I dealt with my enemies very successfully, so let’s repeat that. Let’s relive that!”

The buddha activity, the enlightened energy of karma, is the accuracy of never missing an opportunity, because we are constantly dealing with situations precisely at any given time.

The mentality of karma altogether is: If I do this, that is going to happen.

To transcend that, we have to uproot any kind of false security. The karmic force seems to enforce the security of the chain reactions of cause and effect.

When we do not give out, automatically the input is heavy, heavy, heavy. We end up with old age and death.

we have been taking in so much and not giving out anything.

Whenever we experience the loss of feeling or the loss of inspiration, we refer back to the habitual pattern of our memories, which brings us some out-of-date information. We try to adapt that out-of-date information to the up-to-date situation, and that manipulation helps to produce anxiety in the present state. That whole process is what is calle

Once we uproot the whole security of the good-and-bad chain reaction, using it as a way of creating happiness and comfort, then we have to relate with having no ground.

if you have any kind of progressive, rebellious, or revolutionary approach—whatever you want to call it—then that breeds further freedom.