Showing posts with label karma. Show all posts
Showing posts with label karma. Show all posts
Using the Laws of Karma to keep New Year’s Resolutions & 3 Bonus Tips.
It’s a New Year, and with every New Year comes new resolutions.
Unfortunately, many of our resolutions turn to disappointment when we are unable to overcome the inevitable struggles that transform a resolution into a new way of life. How do we turn the corner?
Perhaps the Buddhist teachings on Karma can help.
Karma is a central concept in Buddhism. You might even call it a law. Karma means action. More broadly speaking, karma is the principle of creation. It is the law of cause and effect that states for every action there is a result; that result is similar in nature to its cause; the effect produced will itself become a cause, which will produce effects that are similar in nature. In other words, our deeds shape the world we live in.
The world is our creation.
Perhaps the Buddhist teachings on Karma can help.
Karma is a central concept in Buddhism. You might even call it a law. Karma means action. More broadly speaking, karma is the principle of creation. It is the law of cause and effect that states for every action there is a result; that result is similar in nature to its cause; the effect produced will itself become a cause, which will produce effects that are similar in nature. In other words, our deeds shape the world we live in.
The world is our creation.
Working With Your Karma (In User-Friendly Terms).
“We need to appreciate our mistakes and the ways in which we seem to mess ourselves up. In the life of a practitioner, those seemingly false steps represent the ripening of karma and the exhaustion of evil deeds…
Taking Refuge in Your Own Humanity {Video}.
The Truth About Karma.
More than any other import from the east, westerners have bastardized the concept of Karma…
We have said it means fate or a cosmic version of what goes around comes around. In truth, Karma means creation. It is an act of creation. It refers to the world we create. Not just the house we live in or the car we drive. Karma is also referring to the interior world we create. In other words, the teachings on karma suggest that we are creating ourselves.
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Meditation & Spirituality~ You Are Your Own Creation.
For so many years I wallowed in self-pity... I marinated myself in suffering not because I didn't care, or because I did not want to be happy, but because I truly believed that my pain was the fault of others. I whole heartedly believed that society, my up-bringing, the people I encountered everyday were somehow to blame for my dissatisfaction.
Blame is the death of responsibility. It renders you impotent, unable to effect any sort of change in yourself or in the world around you. It suggests, that I must sit and wait for others to get their act together before I can be happy. Blame is a complete refusal to accept the capacity to respond directly and honestly to the events in your life- it is the enslavement of freedom!
"You are 100% responsible for who you are- you are your own creation!" These were the words of my first teacher, and they were perhaps the most liberating words I have ever heard. Though I found it unsettling at the time, in the end it not only proved to be true, but it was also an invitation to rediscover the freedom that had been repressed by ignore-ance and fear. For so long I had been enslaved by my own misunderstanding. I had been held captive in a prison of unhappiness, by the belief that others had put me there! The moment I realized I was both the hostage and the guard the prison walls came tumbling down.
If you really see that you are responsible for the situations you find yourself in you can never again be stuck; you will never again find yourself sitting there in your own crap waiting on society, your parents, or any one else to fix you.
When you realize that the problems you face are of an internal origin, "a crisis in consciousness" as Jiddu Krishnamurti would call it, you have entered the world of spirituality.
Realizing it is not a perverted society, incompetent parents, or stupid friends, but a crisis in consciousness that is at the root of all of your troubles sets you on the path toward total freedom because, realizing that the problem is of internal origin goes hand and hand with the realization that resolving these problems will also be an internal job. This, as Alan Watts suggests, is "the birth of responsibility."
When we rediscover our capacity to respond to life we never again have to sit and wait for the world to fix us, instead every moment becomes a moment filled with infinite possibilities. In this moment we are no longer compulsively governed by the events of our past or our expectations of the future. That moment is the present moment, where all problems from the past and hopes for the future collide creating the space for you to be who and what you are; not yesterday or tomorrow, but right here-right now!
This is the doctrine of karma in its simplest form- Your are your own creation!
Blame is the death of responsibility. It renders you impotent, unable to effect any sort of change in yourself or in the world around you. It suggests, that I must sit and wait for others to get their act together before I can be happy. Blame is a complete refusal to accept the capacity to respond directly and honestly to the events in your life- it is the enslavement of freedom!
"You are 100% responsible for who you are- you are your own creation!" These were the words of my first teacher, and they were perhaps the most liberating words I have ever heard. Though I found it unsettling at the time, in the end it not only proved to be true, but it was also an invitation to rediscover the freedom that had been repressed by ignore-ance and fear. For so long I had been enslaved by my own misunderstanding. I had been held captive in a prison of unhappiness, by the belief that others had put me there! The moment I realized I was both the hostage and the guard the prison walls came tumbling down.
If you really see that you are responsible for the situations you find yourself in you can never again be stuck; you will never again find yourself sitting there in your own crap waiting on society, your parents, or any one else to fix you.
When you realize that the problems you face are of an internal origin, "a crisis in consciousness" as Jiddu Krishnamurti would call it, you have entered the world of spirituality.
Realizing it is not a perverted society, incompetent parents, or stupid friends, but a crisis in consciousness that is at the root of all of your troubles sets you on the path toward total freedom because, realizing that the problem is of internal origin goes hand and hand with the realization that resolving these problems will also be an internal job. This, as Alan Watts suggests, is "the birth of responsibility."
When we rediscover our capacity to respond to life we never again have to sit and wait for the world to fix us, instead every moment becomes a moment filled with infinite possibilities. In this moment we are no longer compulsively governed by the events of our past or our expectations of the future. That moment is the present moment, where all problems from the past and hopes for the future collide creating the space for you to be who and what you are; not yesterday or tomorrow, but right here-right now!
This is the doctrine of karma in its simplest form- Your are your own creation!
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