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Our actions and experiences will direct us. In other words, we will be guided by the inherent emptiness of the things we choose to interact with.
For every action there is a reaction. Karma can be examined within the structure of an hour, a year, a lifetime, a thousand lifetimes.
Buddhists understand that today and all other days have turned out the way they have because of karma. The interconnection of one moment with another moment, of one action with another action, is karma.
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What you have done causes things to happen. Your situation in life now has been caused, is predicated upon, your previous actions. That is karma.
Karma is simply the law of cause and effect in action. All moments and occurrences are caused by other moments and occurrences that preceded them in an endless, causal chain.
There are physical karmas. They are reactions and results from actions. But those are bound to a particular lifetime.
Karma indicates action, but not necessarily physical action; nor is karma a result in the sense of a reward.
Karma means changing planes of reality or changing fields of attention. There will be perhaps a resulting physical action stemming from the change of these fields of attention.
The state of mind that you are in causes you to act in a certain way. Your actions will bear results. The ultimate result of all karmas and actions is state of mind. You are your state of mind.
Karma means that through your thoughts and feelings and actions, you are generating a state of mind. That state of mind has a view. That view will cause things to happen to you or not happen to you.
It is best to think of karma, not so much in terms of physical action, but as waveforms of vibratory energy.
Selfless actions create a higher karma, which brings you into higher states of mind. When you are in higher states of mind you will see things that you never saw before.
All action is generated by desire. It is the desire to live that causes us to reincarnate.
What is gone before is gone. All you have now are the results of your actions.
To realize the Self involves an action, it implies that there is something to realize, that there is time, a temporal world, and that Self is not yet realized, but will be realized by the actor through action.
We have to remind ourselves that we are not the transitory body, we are not the person who is having experiences, we are not affected by action or inaction.
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Whenever you engage in a selfless action that contributes to the welfare of others, this will create a vibratory pattern that will lead you into higher states of mind.