Karma

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Student: Do I have any Karma as a result of my past lives?

Master: The only Karma you have is the Karma you choose to keep.

We will discuss the full process of physical death later. It is presented in this section only in the context of Karma and judgment.

Karma is the law of cause and effect. In this physical world, when you throw a rock into the air and it comes down on your head, you experience the law of cause and effect. The lump on your head is a result of your choice to throw the rock in such a manner that it would fall on your head. The lump is also a result of your choice not to get out of the way once the rock was thrown. There is a law of gravity in effect in this physical movie of reality, one agreed upon by most of the actors. But there is no law requiring you to stand in one place while the rock returns to earth.

The same is true of Karma. What we have done in past movies, as well as what we are doing now, is causing energy vibrations to occur in the hologram. These vibrations are similar to the Newtonian Laws, one of which is the law of gravity. They cause a specific flow of energy and, like the rock in the air, that energy returns to its creator.

All that we think, say, or do is the equivalent of throwing a rock into the air. Because we are holographic energy beings, each thought, word and deed creates energy vibrations that are felt throughout hologram. Because balance is, energy returns to its creator. What we project into the hologram is what returns to us. What we plant is what we will reap, if we choose to reap.

You could have simply stepped out from under the falling rock. You can just as easily step out from under Karma. No one anywhere is requiring you to stay in one place while the law of Karma returns. No god is judging you, paying you back for past deeds, or rewarding you for your goodness. Even when you plant a fine garden, it is up to you to make the choice to harvest it.

Why, then, do we harvest at all?

It is because of our paradigm. Remember, our paradigm remains with us in this movie as well as in the next. As you have learned, these programs do not disappear at the moment of physical death. They reside in the energy of our whole being -- in our mind. When the physical body passes away, they arise with a knowing similar to the knowing you experienced when the movie in the cinema ended and you got up to leave.

When the lights came back on in the cinema, you were launched out of your cinema experience and thrust back into the reality of the movie of "everyday life." That movie of everyday life was filtered out of your awareness and eliminated from your experience while the movie screen and the cinema was alive with sensory information. The everyday life reality came rushing back when the cinema experience, with all its sensory information, ended. Likewise, the awareness of the transpersonal realm is filtered out of your conscious awareness while you are in your consensus movie. It arises again when the sensory information you have been receiving is no longer available, when your movie of reality ends.

This happens to all who experience a physical death. We enter our new movie with all the programs, patterns, and tendencies we have accumulated during your most recent physical experience. Our mind immediately begins to filter, refine, and present to our view screen of awareness an experience that fits our paradigm and meets our expectations.

Our mind and Mind are One but, without Balance, we are not aware of this fact during our movie of consensus reality. We are aware only of what our mind has been presenting us. When our physical experience ends, for a brief instant, Mind emerges with all its intrinsic awareness. It appears as a luminosity without comparison, without form, without depth -- and brighter than anything in our recent physical experience. It appears as our very nature. It is Mind. It is The One in Balance. It has always been there, just behind the paradigm of our mind.

In the next moment, our mind begins to interpret what is happening as an experience. It relates it to its most recent paradigm. In Balance in The One, all is available. But our mind now begins its task of presenting us with another experience.

Remember, this is a description of the experience of passing from this movie of reality to the next without Balance. Without Balance, you may have been raised to believe in a judgment followed by a heaven or hell after death. Without Balance, your mind extracts this expectation from the presentation of Mind, filters and refines it through your paradigm, and presents it to you as part of your next movie. Your mind does this in exactly the same manner in which it is presenting you with your current experience. It appears out there, it is limited, and it contains meaning. Mind is presenting the reflection of your primordial self at this moment, but without Knowledge, Integration, and Balance, you have no way to know it. Your mind begins to interpret your previous performance, and it appears as judgment.

Judgment, and the resulting Karma, are a product of our paradigm. We hold beliefs and expectations in place individually as well as through the laws of The Magic of Agreeing. The expectations of every belief system hold the potential for that expected reward or punishment. Therefor, every heaven, every hell, every believing group waiting for a second coming, every purgatory, every happy hunting ground, every experience imaginable is available. They are our own creation; they are projections of our beliefs and expectations. All that is necessary in order to access any one of them is the building of a paradigm, a matrix of limiting thought shrouded in belief and expectation -- and an end to this movie of consensus reality.

This happens at the moment of physical death. Without Balance, we find ourselves looking through the limiting paradigm of past experience and are confronted with the same sense of good or bad, right or wrong that helped us play our parts. Even though we are no longer involved in consensus reality, our mind still holds the programs of its continual evaluation of how we were playing our part.

We are constantly comparing ourselves to others, and to our interpretation of the script. We consider agreed upon social values -- the system of right and wrong by which actors present themselves -- and make adjustments daily. We are taught the rules of judgment and then teach them to our children. If we belong to a religious group, we accept its interpretation of right and wrong and make a constant effort to apply those principles to our life. Finding a place for our self and a meaning for our life is a constant effort. It becomes a program that runs on automatic. The result of this effort is called Ego.

Ego is a product of the mind. It is the result of the continual self-judgment of the mind. It’s the attempt by the mind to fit us into the movie with the other actors.

Ego is not what we are, but we soon begin to view ourselves in the light of this continual self-judgment. Ego is not who we think we are. Who we think we are does not often arise as we act our part in the movie of life. Ego is not who the other actors think we are. The other actors are interpreting our performance by comparing it to their paradigms. Ego is what we think the other actors think we are. As we perform, we evaluate the other actors performance according to our paradigm, and we adjust our part according to how we think they think we should act.

Ego develops different programs for the different scenes and different actors in our movie. We may have a "Beer With the Boys" program, a "Talk With the Girls" program, an "At Work" program, an "In Church" program, and a "With Those Who Do Not Understand Our Program" program. Once they have been established, our mind switches these programs with every change of experience, running the proper program for each. It switches so quickly and easily that we hardly noticed happening. It is Ego’s attempt to make us fit into the script. Ego is continually judging and adjusting our paradigm so that we can act the way we think other actors think we should act for each and every scene.

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