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Karma viewed from the creativity
perspective
Origins of Karma from a creativity perspective
Moving past
karma
Intention and creating karma
Existing karma
Working with
karma
Power
of our intentions
Karmic mismatch
Wisdom
erases karma
Taking on another’s karma
Working with the karmic mismatch of another
Teacher approach to karmic mismatch
Guru approach to karmic mismatch
Portaging approach to karmic mismatch
Karma is an concept found within
Eastern mysticism that is used to explain many aspects of good and
bad fortune. It is a doctrine which embraces the concept that we are
responsible for all our acts and unless we change the pattern of how
we make our decisions, we will continually repeat the same pattern
in this and other
incarnations. At it root is the understanding that we are
responsible for all that we experience and it is our responsibility
to change how we make our decisions in life if we want to escape
continually repeating the past. This concept then leads to the idea
of a wheel of karma that continually cycles around unless we can
figure out how to get off.
The Law of Karma is expressed in a variety of ways but the simplest
is, what we do to another returns to us, and that we can become
stuck on the “wheel of karma” continually repeating the past. The
need to experience the actions that we did to another is simply a
way of saying we the need to balance the original force that caused
the initial action. This does not mean there is a “tit for tat” and
the balancing must be done in the same way. Rather it is more like
we use a rocket to launch a vehicle like the space shuttle with a
tremendous force but we glide back to earth in a relatively gentle
way. Being stuck on the wheel of karma is simply a way of saying
that an object in motion stays in that motion until it changes.
Origins of
Karma from a creativity perspective (Top)
From an
creativity perspective
and the
energy consciousness model,
remembering that energy and consciousness are one, karma is just
Newtons’s Law of Motion applied to consciousness. Newton’s Law of
Motion states that an object in motion stays in motion and an object
at rest stays at rest unless acted upon by an unbalanced force.
Karma is not more than the word used to describe this principle
manifesting in individual lives. Now there is nothing wrong with
being in any motion. The question is whether or not what we
experience
serves us and allows us to create
a life worth living.
Karma can also be seen as the application of another of Newton’s Law
of Motion. That is, for every action (the cause), there is an equal
and opposite reaction (the effect). Karma can be seen as the results
of past actions governed by the law of
cause and effect . Hence, karma is not about judgement on our
action. Rather, it is about complying with the governing principles.
Within the
energy consciousness perspective, it does not matter what you
choose to believe, what we choose to be or become and/or choose to
experience. We are completely free and consciousness at play. The
only judgements that exist are those that we impose on ourselves.
However, there are consequences for our actions for the time and
place in which we exist.
From an energy perspective, the law is applicable as stated - an
object in motion stays in motions and an object at rest stays at
rest unless acted upon by some force. From a consciousness
perspective, this law is applicable in two ways. One way is a object
in consciousness can be any belief, expression, attitude, desire,
fear, judgement, feeling, and consistent or persistent thought and
action or the like that we hold will continue to propel us forward
in the direction of that object. The other ways is principles
applies to our
belief structureand the perspective we hold as a result of that
belief structure. Namely the perspective we hold stays fixed unless
acted upon to change. This is also true for the beliefs we hold
which create the belief structure. Consciousness will continue in
its current state unless there is the conscious choice by
consciousness to change its motion.
The perspective we hold is also reflective of the direction we go
in, and with, our life. Here the motion is not necessarily traveling
in a direction as in a straight line. Rather it is traveling in a
particular direction in, or through, Creation and way of
manifestation into and out of a creation pattern that continually
creates and dissolves a particular type and kind of experience in
life. Unless we change how and what we think and believe we will
continue in the to go in the direction we are going. When we change
what we believe we are no longer bound by the past and the actions
of the past created by the beliefs we release.
Experientially, we become locked into a particular pattern of life
and/or consciousness and continually repeat that pattern in
successive
incarnations until we develop sufficient awareness to break the
pattern. This is why it is important to come to a realization of how
we are thinking and viewing life. Each thought held in our
mind continually directs energy into that thought pattern. Or
the pattern that formed the thought repeats the past until the
thought is released and/or changed or the pattern that is creating
the thought is released and changed.
From an the
energy consciousness perspective, the “stuff” of
creation/Creation, energy consciousness, exists in a
non localized
form or a
localized form much like the
wave - particle nature of energy. Newton’s Law of Motion and
Karma reflect the fact that whatever form energy consciousness takes
it will remain fixed and localized in that form until consciousness
chooses otherwise and/or the flow of energy giving rise to the form
totally
dissipates in the experience for which it was created. This is
not to say the form and expression of the energy and consciousness
within the localized energy consciousness does not change. Rather,
the energy and consciousness remain in a fixed relationship for the
experience of that creation. The energy impact of this phenomenon is
further discussed in the topic “The
energy and creative power/Creative Power available in a given
creation/Creation.”
Within the traditional view of Karma, it can be said Karma is only
the events in our life showing us the pattern of our life as ancient
as the journey of our soul. Our soul is seen to travel in a Karmic
pattern initiated by the intention which created it. From the
perspective provided here, the understanding of Karma is slightly
different for Karma is seen to have two part. One part is related to
our
transcendental mind and the other is related to our body.
However, both parts are governed by intention in two way. One is
intention creates it and the other is intention can change it.
In talking about fixed pattern, it is important to note that there
is a
collective karma. The world we experience is formed by the
collective karma or fixed belief patterns of humanity. Humanity has
an overall belief as to what it means to be human and we continually
to experience those beliefs generation after generation. Relative to
our personal experiences, we cannot separate from the collective
until we balance the particular karma that is holding us to the
collective and release all the energy ties we have to the
collective. Some call this a healing process for as we become more
aware of our truth and live our truth there are parts of our being
we seem to heal. Yet, we are only escaping what it means to be human
in certain areas.
In any case, escaping the
collective karma can feel like we are trying to fly to the moon
and need to escape the pull of the earth’s gravitational field. At
times it seem all of humanity keeps pushing us to remain where we
are and to not change the status quo in any way. Here we need
clarity of intention,
passion, a strong will and strong sense of purpose and
strength of will if we are going to break free.
Moving past karma (Top)
There is one note that needs to be
made here. Newton’s Law is applicable on the macro scale of physic.
Quantum mechanics replaces classical physics on the micro scale at
the subatomic scale. Here, the term “macro” relative to world of
physics refers to large quantities or mass or massive objects like
you experience every day in life. The “micro” refers to the atomic
scale of these large quantities of mass. Relative to consciousness,
macro refers to established and defined collections of thoughts,
ideas and beliefs or the ego and the identity that consciousness
gives itself where as micro refers to the beliefs and how the
beliefs interact with each other.
Karma and its associated principles are applicable and address the
macro scale or rather macro aspects of consciousness. Similar to
quantum mechanics, there is a completely different set of principles
on the micro scale, which are more aligned with the phenomena of
quantum mechanics and the
wave particle properties of energy. Simply said, the quantum
mechanical equivalent truth in the realm of consciousness is that
wisdom, understanding and our ability to experience
non localized
consciousness replaces Karma. In learning to become a
detached witness and becoming mindful and aware of our thoughts
and what we feel, we are capable of breaking any pattern to which we
are bound.
Intention and creating karma
(Top)
Within the
creativity perspective,
Karma is created by intention. Any
intention will create a flow of energy and will result in a
karmic pattern. When needs to be understood it is not so much what
we intent that is the issue. The issue is the pattern our thinking
creates in what we intend and why. The pattern created is the karma.
What needs to be realized is intention and the karma that results
works at very deep levels. It is not just about our conscious
intention but what lies in our
nonconscious mind. What we hold in our
mind and believe determines both how and what we think and how
we choose to act in life. But we all have observed that what we
experience and what we think determines what we believe. We act on
what we believe and believe what we experience. What lies here is
the essence of a loop being created in that we repeat what we
believe. That is the karma and the pattern gives rise to the
proverbial wheel of karma.
The kind of Karma we create will be based on the intent and desire
we have. Actions intended out of anger will stay in anger with all
of the associated effects even if the anger is never visibly
expressed. It is still energetically embedded in all that is done.
Fighting an enemy out of anger or seeing them as somehow evil
creates a different flow of energy that fighting an enemy simply out
of the love to protect one’s family. The issue with karma and what
we intend is not so much about causing harm and then having to
suffer harm to balance the books. Rather, it is about if we believe
we can harm someone then our experiences will show us it is true
because we can harm them. Then when we are harmed by they we tend to
reinforce the belief the world is a place of harming.
This gives a role of thumb for those who wish to use it. Always
intend our actions in unconditional love and for the free and
unfetter unfoldment of the
creative spirit within each individual. However to hold such an
intention and really mean it, we will have to
step out of mind
and seek guidance form our
internal guidance to implement for it is an experience not
previously experienced by
mind. Mind only knows the past and is unable to guide us in
efforts it has not previously experienced.
In any case, relative to any given flow of energy and its resulting
karmic pattern, since an intention creates the flow of energy and
karma, another intention can change it. We always have the freedom
of choice to change the direction of the flow of energy within our
being. The question is do we change it to a direction which
serves us and creates
a life worth living.
Existing karma (Top)
As stated above there are two
parts to karma. One is related to our
transcendental mind and the other is relate to our bodies and
the
intention for our life.
The intention which started the whole process we experience is
discussed in the
Creation Story for the Creativity Perspective. Based on that
story, within each of us is an underlying intention for all that we
do an experience. It is to find a playmate with whom to share who
and what we are at each and every level of our being. That of course
is difficult to do since we are each unique and no one can fully
embrace our uniqueness. If they could, we would not be unique. That
intention will never change for it is the original cause of
Creation. We will always feel it to one degree or another. It
totally depends on how open we are to feeling. But, other than
looking for a playmate, there are no constrains on what we create in
seeking that playmate.
Relative to our
transcendental mind, the direction our
creative spirit travels is the sum total of all that we have
been and experienced and continue to hold. Without an
intention for our life, Karma would only be the events in our
life showing us the pattern of our life as ancient as the journey of
our creative spirit. However, there is an intention for our life
which gave rise to the life we have and the body in which we
incarnated. What we experience in our current life is a karmic
pattern initiated by the intention which created our life. In many
ways the intention for our life and the karma we face is encoded in
our body.
This last sentence can quickly lead us to the concept of karmic
illness. There are illness we face that are a result of the
particular genetic stain we chose for our body. Or, their may be
illness we intended to have to give us certain types and kinds of
experiences. Then there are the illness that are a result of
energy that is bound in holding to a past experience which
needs to be acted upon and dissipated.
This set of illness is actually a most interesting set of accidents
and illnesses. It is here the miracles of modern medicine, therapy
and even rituals and metatheatrics can be the most helpful. Karma is
no more than the expression on the non-physical planes of the
physical principle that an object in motion stays in motion unless
acted on by an unbalanced force. If we have created a direction
and/or
intention for our lives, we continue in that direction or we
travel to the completion of that intention unless changed. An
intention is no more than a thought consciously or subconsciously
held with some
passion and energy to create it. In becoming aware of what is
unfolding in our live and that our live is revealing to us, we can
pull the string and see what beliefs govern the experience we
have.
Here wisdom can be used to erase karma. It is the same way we can
change the direction of an object by applying some unbalanced force
to the object. We can divert an existing karmic pattern with
understanding the flow pattern and the cause of that pattern. By
applying the appropriate insight about the either the condition
causing the karmic pattern or by understanding the direction of the
karmic pattern we can divert and/or free the bound energy to flow
into an experience that better
serves us rather than some experience of
pain.
Working with karma (Top)
There is a conscious part and a
nonconscious part governing our actions. It is true we need do
nothing for our lives will unfold in some way. But the fact we do
nothing does not negate the fact we are traveling in a predetermined
direction with our life. If we like who we are, enjoy life and have
a deep enthusiasm for life and a
passion to be, we have found our bliss and we need do nothing.
We only need to enjoy it and make a toast and give gratitude to the
experience of life and wonderment of the universe. If we do nothing
we will have more the same unless our unfolded doubts and fears
begin to reveal themselves. If however, we feel life can be better,
then we may want to consider what beliefs we are holding onto that
are taking us in the direction in which we are going. It is
suggested we become a little bit conscious, not a lot, just a
little, - just enough to step out of those preset patterns to see
what really
serves us and allows us to create
a life worth living.
Now the way the concept of karma is normally seen is that once the
intention is set, it is fixed and there is no changing it until the
experience is had. It is like a bullet that is shot out of a rifle.
Once the bullet is shot, there is no stopping it until its energy is
expended. Although this is a correct description of what happens, it
is not the correct description. Karma is just intention, and like
any other intention it can be changed. First we need to know it
exists. Second we need to understand what it represents and third,
we can then choose to change it. So nothing is really fixed.
The problem with karma is that everything that is described as karma
tends to be unknown to one’s psyche until it manifests. It is almost
like a time capsule that is set to go off in certain situations and
we don’t know we carry it until it goes off. Also karma becomes a
convenient excuse not to take responsibility for what happens in our
life. It is much more convenient to let things manifest and say it
was only karma. To say that we in some way, are getting exactly what
we choose and we are responsible for all that occurs in our life it
a little too difficult for most people. Yet that is the real meaning
behind karma.
Many would strongly argue that they did not choose
pain, displeasure or all the “not good” things in their life.
However, with this kind of thinking the individual will always be
the
victim of outside circumstance since they will never consciously
choose to change what is in their life. They will in fact be subject
to the Lords of Karma since they will never gain the understand to
manipulate the energy in their lives before it manifest as
unpleasant events or circumstances. There is no karma. There are
only intentions that we have forgotten that continually manifest in
our lives until we choose to change them. Karma is just one of many
contexts that explains how the universe works and unless you realize
it is only one of many mechanism for continuing the desire for
experience our life will be controlled by this model.
But we can create it and dis-create it at will. It is all part of
the “Cosmic”plan and the Consciousness at play. Yet it is not so
much a “plan” as it is just the way Creation works. The concept of
karma, that an intention stays in motion until acted up, is just the
way the universe operates and it looks as though there is a Divine
plan to unfold. In knowing the creative “laws’ of creation/Creation
we can change what we experience and the shift the flow of energy
which is giving rise to what we experience. The question is, “How do
we go back and access the root cause of what is giving rise to what
we experience?”
Working with karma is actually quite simple and can be viewed from
two aspects. The first we have already alluded to the
intention for our life and what we come to experience in
physical Creation. What ever initial programming we bring into life
can be seen as our karma whether it is judged good or bad. We make
choices about what we desire to experience, set up a few key
parameters as control check points along the way, forget what we
created and come into Physical Creation experiencing life as if we
were never here before and we don’t know what we are doing
As we live our life, the patterns we set unfold. Some of them come
upon us as totally unexpected events and we are amazed at how things
orchestrate as though there is magic in our life. Then, at at other
times, we seem to remember and recognize the next decision even
before we arrive at the next decision point. As these patterns do
manifest, we either accept them and are happy with them as they
unfold or we struggle, fight and try and change them without
realizing where they come from and what is actually controlling
them.
We can change what we set up to experience in life, but we have to
go deep into our unconscious to ferret out the particular patterns
that we wish to change. Once we have gone that deep, we realize why
those patterns were chosen in the first place. More often than not,
we usually become content to work through them. What we come to see
is that we have a different perspective about Creation at this level
of our being. We see very differently. At this level we see the
wisdom in what has been created and we know that we desire that
experience and we desire to experience it one way or another,
otherwise we would have never choose it in the first place. This
leads us to the second way of viewing karma.
Karma is just the way we keep a long term focus on the evolution of
our
creative spirit. We sometimes think our only life on earth is
this particular life. As such, it is very limited and there are only
a very few things we can sample from the variety of life experience
in any one life. For example, each life give us only one physical
death. One death out of the myriad ways to die is a rather poor
sample for the experience of death. But the same can be said of
marriage, education, professions, and living and experiencing
different part of the planet.
Another view of life is that we desire to evolve or awaken our
creative spirit to different capabilities than those fo which we
are consciously aware we have. For example, suppose our creative
spirit wants to experience and fully understand the concept of
compassion. Our creative spirit then chooses to experience
compassion and that become the karmic intent for the next series of
incarnations until compassion is fully understood from a
multitude of aspects. Now an important note needs to be made here.
To fully experience compassion we need to experience both from the
giving view point and the receiving view point and we need to know
what it feels like when we give it or don’t give it and what we
receive it and when we don’t receive it. Some of us wonder why we
have debilitating injuries. Yet, that injury may be only the vehicle
we use to experience an aspect of compassion.
Each lifetime then can then be seen as a day or one lesson in
awakening our
creative spirit. It is to live each lifetime to experience a
different facet of compassion. Some lifetimes we receive compassion,
some lifetimes we give compassion. Others we live without
compassion. Each piece we experience is carried into the future life
times, sometimes consciously, sometimes unconsciously, until all the
pieces come together exactly the way that we wanted them to come
together. Each lifetime revealing a facet of understanding until
compassion is fully understood. When it is understood the a cycle is
completed and a new choice is made.
Maybe this life time it is to experience flight in one of all its
forms. But, to experience flight means in addition to flying as a
human there is flight as experience by all the different flying
entities - birds, bees, bugs and fairies. So maybe when we
incarnated the very first time and experience the pleasure of the
physical plane we were that cave man/woman who looked out at each
soaring eagle and truly expressed the desire to fly when the
physical means were not possible. Then, that one thought may have
taken root within our psyche and we said, “I want to experience
flying?” and not really knowing and understanding what flying is all
about.
Then centuries passed when viewed from the eyes of man before the
experience was available to be experience flying as a man/woman.
Since the means were not available to experience the thought at that
time, that thought became a “karmic” thought carrying into
successive lives but not implemented or acted upon for many
lifetimes until the time and circumstances were correct as a seed
lays in a fertile waiting for the conditions to be just right. In
the meantime, while man was evolving and evolving the understanding
to learn how to fly, our
creative spirit may have spent our time experiencing other forms
of physical reality and other realities to experience what would be
called flying. We are consciousness at play, and how you choose to
play is up to we. As a human we should not limit ourselves by our
thinking as to what consciousness can create. We only need to
believe, to choose and to freely experience that what we have
chosen. However, more often than not as a human, we are not free to
fully experience what we have choosing so we end up binding our
creative energy. That in turn, holds us to fixed patterns of
creation/Creation until that energy is released.
It must be realized that all these thought and ideas that may take
lifetimes to evolve that we hold and are integrated into the total
desire for experience that we carry. These thoughts, as do all our
other thoughts, must compete for our
creative life energy as do all the other desires that we hold.
What manifests at any particular instant is just that sum total
allowing many beliefs and desire to be experienced simultaneously.
As long as we continue to hold the desire and the intention, it will
manifest. The only question is where does it “sit” on the priority
list and is our current environment conducive to the particular
desire to manifest even if it is next on our list of experiences. It
is rather difficult to experience riding a cruise ship when you are
sitting in the middle of the continental United States The
environment does have to be correct for the experience to happen.
But it must be realized, that if that experience is next on our list
of experience, we can be pretty well assured we are going to get a
very strong inner feeling that you want to take a cruise on a cruise
ship. Now we are faced with a choice. Do we listen to that inner
feeling and go where we are lead fulfilling and experiencing the
truth as we know it. Or do we deny the feeling, stay put in central
United States, denying our truth and begin living with dis-ease. Or,
do we explore the origins of the feeling we have and reevaluate the
need for a cruise based on the needs of our
creative spirit as viewed by the
detached witness to what we truly desire to create and
experience. The choice is ours.
Power of our intentions
(Top)
In working with karma and the
intentions for our life, it needs to be realized we work at the
energetic level. Some would call it a soul level but that implies
the soul is somehow separated from the body. Rather, our body is our
energy manifested physically and what we shift energetically we
shift in our
mind, our body and the environment in which we find ourselves.
To state it another way, our karma and the motion to our existence
that keeps us on the proverbial wheel of karma is created by our
intentions at the
non localized
energy level where all is possible. We experience that level in our
creative imagination. We do not make these change by our mundane
actions in the world. The beliefs you hold because of our existence
in Physical Creation in this current lifetime are the
cause and effect experiences we have because we act on the
beliefs we hold. They do normally create karma or set a motion to
our existence unless we couple them with an intention that goes out
over time.
For example, we are in a conversation with an individual. As we talk
to them we think, “This person is a jerk.” It is what we believe and
it is our judgment and opinion of them. It may or may not be true.
But it doesn’t matter. It is our experience of what is happening.
What we are thinking reinforces our belief about the person and will
bias our interaction with them in the future, but it will not create
karma and is not an intention.
However, if we think, ‘This person is a jerk and I never want to see
them again” is something quite different. Here we create an
intention that may endure for eternity. Our problem arises when this
“jerk” is essential for a part of our unconscious to surface. If we
set the intention never to see them again, we may create a
separation and tension within our own being with competing desires.
To desire
“Cosmic” consciousness is to totally awaken all levels of our
consciousness. To keep a portion of that consciousness unconscious
because of the intention to never see this person again, we create
the obstacle to our own awakening.
Here again the rule of thumb. Always intend our actions in
unconditional love and for the free and unfetter unfoldment of the
creative spirit within each individual. This will help prevent
us becoming our own obstacle to what we desire to create.
What needs to be understood is the level of consciousness is what
determines how one is affected by karma. The problem with work
things at the energetic level is that the energetic level is
extremely sensitive to the intentions that we carry that are the
basis of any action we take in the physical world. However any
action we take in the physical world without intention has no real
impact on the flow of our
creative life energy. There is
no binding of the energy. Throwing a ball up in the air to
thrown a ball up in the air has no real impact on the unfoldment of
our
creative spirit other than having the experience of gravity and
the ball. To throw a ball up in the air with the intention of
understanding gravity will have a tremendous impact on our creative
spirit.
Any intention that we have no matter how expressed or unexpressed
causes a chain of events to begin and will continue unless otherwise
changed. We cannot hide things from the flow of our
creative life energy like we can in the physical world. There
are no secrets at the energetic level. We are very accustom to
stating things that are acceptable to those around us. But we have
intentions other than what way we say and speak. There are things we
do not wish to express that reflect our real intentions, desire,
wishes, expectations or fears that are really motivating our action.
What we fail to realize is our intentions (whether it be in the form
of a desire, wish, avoidance of something like fear or
pain, expectations and such), even unexpressed (consciously or
nonconsciously), becomes the basis of the reality we create. If
we act out of fear, that underlying intention of avoiding fear
become woven into the creation we experience. If we act gain power
but verbally express something different that intention to gain
power is embedded in our actions and any subsequent creation
resulting from our actions. If we action proactively and seemingly
courageously in the world but carry the underlying belief that we
are not worth and inadequate because of what our mother or father
expressed to us as a child, that unworthiness and inadequacy color
our actions and will be manifest in some way in the creation we
have.
Working at the energetic level requires us to act because it is
correct to act and to leave the results to destiny. We must be
detached to effectively work at the energetic level. Any expectation
or anticipated outcome is an intention and will carry consequences.
Karmic
mismatch (Top)
Karmic mismatch is where we create
a tension within our own being It is where we choose to divert our
energy at a lower level from that chosen at a higher level of your
being. That creates the karmic mismatch. It is where our
transcendental mind has its desires and wants are somehow
opposed or in conflict with what our
enculturated mind
desires and wants.
The way of being to experience any creation or experience of
Creation which allows for the free flow and
nonbinding dissipation of our
creative life energy is to act corresponding to the our highest
level of non-conflicting beliefs. It is our most natural state of
being and is the state of being which allows us to freely enter the
state
creative play and the
most creative state of being. Karmic mismatch occurs when the
encultured mind or even the
transcendental mind interjects beliefs at the lower levels of
being that conflict with the flow pattern established at higher
levels of being. Usually
mind injects these beliefs because of attachments and/or desires
that we come to hold because of the physical body we have and the
experiences we encounter in our current life.
The typical example is where our
transcendental mind creates and
intention for our life. Or surfaces memories about what we are
experiencing that would cause us to act one way or another. But, our
enculturated mind
has created a competing intention or has different ideas about what
we are experiencing. The two opposing sets of desires create a
tension and we may experience that tension as a
pain that we desire and/or act to numb.
The higher levels of beliefs are those which lie closest to the
truth of reality and that allows for the free unfoldment of our
creative spirit and that of any others. They are the beliefs
that lie close to oneness and that enable us to become that
detached witness and see the bigger picture behind any
experience we have. They tend to be belief that move to
strengthening of all part of the creative experience as equals but
different. They allow for the expansion and grown into the infinity
of our own being. The allow us to experience the
inner satisfaction
and
fulness of being. Since we all are unique, they will most
probably be different in some way for each of us.
It needs to be realized from a
creativity perspective
and
how our energy manifests within the understanding of
energy consciousness, it does not matter what we choose to
believe, what we choose to be or become and/or choose to experience.
We are completely free and consciousness at play. The only
judgements that exist are those that we impose on ourselves.
However, there are consequences for our actions for the time and
place in which we exist. There is nothing wrong with being in any
motion, or in any direction of travel in life or in any pattern that
continually creates and dissolves a particular type and kind of
experience. The question is whether or not what we experience
serves us and allows us to create
a life worth living. We just need to understand that an object,
that is, any particle form of energy consciousness, will continue in
the state that it is in unless there is the conscious choice to
change its motion.
Wisdom erases karma (Top)
In realizing that karma is really
only the equivalent of Newton’s law of motion that an object in
motion will stay in motion unless it is acted upon by some
unbalanced force we have the option of changing karma. We have a
choice.
Free will allows us to step out of any karmic pattern at any
time. Transcending the world of duality is to transcend the world of
what you believe. In
stepping out of mind
we have the option to change the
cause effect chain of events.
To change an objects motion, we must first be aware that it is
motion. Once we become aware, we can then choose to act on that
object to change it motion. In the awareness of an object in motion
we become aware of the cause of that motion based on its trajectory
and we can then change the
cause effect relationship. To do this within our life, we need
to become mindful and aware of the thoughts we have, the feelings
which arise and the experience we are having in life. We then need
to adopt the perspective of the
detached witness to look beyond the thought, feeling and/or
experience to see what is giving rise to it. As we become mindful
and awareness, we will being to see patterns. We can
pull the string on both why we have any particular thought,
feeling or experience or, why we have the pattern of thoughts,
feelings and experiences that we do. In pulling the string we can
get to the root of what which is causing them to arises.
In
pulling the string on what we experience, this also brings in
Einstein’s observation and the concept of “Creative
Relativity.” It is to realize that within a give reference
system, we will not know that we are in motion. We can become aware
of accelerations and changes in motion but we will not become aware
of the motion itself unless we have a point of reference outside
ourselves. We only become aware of our motion in comparison to
another object by how fast or how slow the other object is moving
toward or apart from us. If we are traveling together in the same
direction at the same speed we will see no motion. We only become
aware of our motion in relation to another object. This is why
creation is not done alone. We another if for no other reason that
to gauge our own motion. So too with our karma and the direction of
any aspect of our life. We only become aware of the motion in our
life relative to the motion of another. We simply need to look at
how quickly we are moving apart from another to understanding what
direction and at what speed we are traveling relative to their
motion. As an
infinite creative being, we will need many such individuals and
interactions to explore the depth and breadth of our own being.
The question we are faced with is, “Is there a point that doesn’t
move from which all motion can be measured?” What is interesting is
that many physicists and astronomers of the world would have us
believe there is a point from which all motion seems to emanate.
That point is the point at which the Big Bang occurred and physical
universe as we currently know it was created. Similarly, theologians
of all religions and spiritual tradition have such a reference point
in their concept of God. In some ways the
Creation Story for the Creativity Perspective is such a
reference point created for this material. The Eastern masters would
have you believe that there is such a point when we consciously
detach ourselves from our body and we reach the stillness within our
being, that place of “no-thing-ness” and tap the Source of all
Creation. However, they all are only a perspective in comparison to
something else. How and what we believe is our choice. The
recommendation made here is to
allow
effectiveness to be your measure of truth and the
Creation Story for the Creativity Perspective allows for the
creation of many effective creative tool. It is not the answer but a
starting point we may find useful in our creative journey.
The point to be made here is that there may be experiences that we
have elected to experience in this life. But what we have elected to
experience does not have to be experienced in
pain, unless of course that is our desired experience. Wisdom
can be used to change karma and/or make our experiences more
enjoyable. When the obstacles seem insurmountable there are ways to
get around any obstacle. What we need to come to understand we can
choose to have our experiences when the obstacles are as simple as
stepping across a stream. Or, we can wait till it becomes a creek, a
small river, or as huge as a lake or ocean. The choice is our.
Taking on another’s karma
(Top)
Taking another’s karma is really
putting up with or tolerating another person’s karmic mismatch at
the expense of our own way of being. Hence creating our own karma
mismatch. It is something that is done quite routinely by everyone
but done at a subconscious level and it is one of the common ways
that we cause our energy to be bound. It is putting up with someone
else’s non-natural way of being and living more towards their
satisfaction at the expense of our being as opposed to being who and
what we are.
We have a natural way of being for the flow of our energy as we are
directing it by the beliefs that we hold. Whenever we live other
than our natural way of being and follow a belief or a way of being
contrary to our own, we create a karmic mismatch. If we live other
than our natural way of being to live in such a way to make us
acceptable to another person who is living outside of their natural
way of being, we take up there karma for their mismatch becomes the
source and cause of our mismatch. That is, they are living with a
karmic mismatch. Because we are focusing our life on their way of
mismatched living, we cause our own mismatch in response to theirs.
Hence we take on their burden because we allow them to stay in their
pattern. In doing so, we create a non-constructive pattern of our
own.
Taking on another person’s karma is not necessarily bad. There is
only two questions that really need to be asked. One is, “Are we
aware enough to shed the karmic mismatch we create in ourselves by
working with, being with or tolerating the other individual.” The
second question is, “Why are we putting up with that other
individual at the expense of creating a karmic mismatch in
ourselves.” If the person is willing to change and working to
change, that is one issue. However if that person is unwilling to
change then we really need to ask why we are denying our own natural
way of being for another.
Working with
the karmic mismatch of another (Top)
Karmic mismatch is ultimately and
usually a result of a difference between what our
enculturated mind
desires and what our
transcendental mind desires. When viewed from the enculturated
mind, the issue is about aligning our enculturated mind with
“higher” or more all encompassing beliefs that tend to be found
within spiritual traditions. Given the fact that wisdom can erase
karma and our intentions can shift karma, three approach have been
identified that attempt to remove the mismatch. One, called the
teacher approach, is being in the world as a traditional teacher
attempting to convert the world. The second called the guru approach
is the approach used by the traditional guru. The difference between
the teacher approach and the guru approach is essentially the
difference between a home game and an away game. That is we play the
game as we want to play it or as others want to play it. Then there
is a seldom used third way called portaging.
Both the teacher approach and the guru approach is based on the
belief that the teacher or guru has a method that will resolve any
karmic mismatch. Quite simply it is that the teacher and guru have a
set of beliefs which they consider “higher,” more spiritual and more
powerful to which an individual can learn and align their
enculturated mind.
The expected result is to remove any
pain, discomfort or misfortune as a result of misalignment
between one’s higher or spiritual beliefs and the other beliefs held
in their enculturated mind.
The main difference between the teacher approach and the guru
approach is somewhat like the different of playing a game where
there house rule for the game. Either our house rules are used and
one can play a home or we can play an away game using someone else’s
rules. That is, house rules tend to favor the home team. The main
problem with both the teacher and guru approach is that, in general,
they do not allow for the uniqueness of the individual and what they
have incarnated to give humanity. Portaging uses a different
approach than either the teacher or guru approach.
Teacher approach
to karmic mismatch (Top):
In the teacher approach, the teacher goes into the world with their
beliefs and try and “convert” the world to a different way of
thinking. That is, convert the world to the thinking held by the
teacher. The teacher approach can also be called the conversion
approach since one tries to “convert the world.” This is the
approach many religious and spiritual traditions use although they
do not necessarily see their efforts and helping individuals address
their karmic mismatch.
The teacher goes into the world in some way to show the world
another way of being, namely the path of the teacher and/or embraced
by the teacher. It many ways the teacher approach is the equivalent
of an away game. That is, the game of life is played by the rules of
the home team (those in the world) and the teacher tries, in some
way, to convert those in the world to the teachers way of thinking.
Those whom the teacher approach play the game of life in a way that
is different than the way the teacher would want to play at home.
The teacher plays the best they can the way the home team wants them
to play. As a result, conversion moves slowly as others move to
embrace the teachers beliefs or the teacher slowly evolve the others
to the way they want to play at home.
The teacher approach has an established tradition and way of being
in the world. The teacher has usually achieved an awareness of some
type and they working to bring others to that particular awareness
that is had by the teacher. Whether it be by publishing books,
creating a school to educate the uneducated, a hospital to heal the
sick, or just to be in the world showing individual a different way
of being with the intent of conversion are all methods which can be
used.
In some ways it is very much like bating a hook. Once we caught the
fish, we can do with it what we desire. In this cases it is to
educate them into way of being reflected in the tradition/teachings
of the teacher. The process can work well if the teacher can stay
truly faithful to their way of being and pull the individual towards
themselves by working on the mismatch between the individual’s way
of thinking and being in the world and the teacher’s way of thinking
and being in the world that the teacher believes will relieve the
mismatch. The relief obtained by the individual becomes the bate for
the hook, which is to learn more about the teaching.
However, in working within the world, it is very easy to accommodate
those of the world and the message becomes quickly compromised. The
reason for this is quite simple. In trying to ultimately convert
other individuals, the teacher is attached to them and become
reluctant to let them go. That reluctance to let them go slowly
causes the teacher to move away from their center to live more and
more within the world of those they are trying to convert.
Since the teacher is focused on at those who are carrying a karmic
burden and not living their natural way of being, the teacher slowly
starts to pick up their burden. Remember our
creative life energy goes to create an experience of that on
which we focus. By focusing on karmic mismatches, we slowly create
and experience of the mismatch. If the teacher does not remain aware
and alert, before they realize it they carry their own karmic
burden. They end up compromising their truth for they relinquishing
their own state of being to be present to the other.
The problem with the teacher path is two fold. One is the problem of
the path in that the individual is taught to focus on the path of
teacher, their tradition and the state of being that it creates
rather than the individual following their own unique path. The
second is that since the teacher is not operating in the way that
they would prefer as in a “home game” it is much easier for the
teacher to compromise their message for the sake of the audience.
Frequently, the teacher gives the impression they are taking on the
weight of the world trying to convert the world. There is the belief
that if we make truth more palatable in small bits, one can slowly
reel another in as if we were trying to catch a fish. Yet, if the
bits are too small the truth becomes lost and/or pieced back
together in the wrong way..
It is to be noted that this teacher path is sometimes called the
path of compassion because the individual goes into the world to
work with the individuals where they are found trying to get the
individual to release their mismatch in their life. However in it
not so much a path of compassion as a path of conversion. It does
need to be noted that it can become extremely frustrating if the
teacher becomes attached to the rate at which the individual are, or
are not aligning, with their teaching. Of course, the more
frustrated the teacher becomes, the more karmic mismatch they
creates for themselves
Guru approach to
karmic mismatch (Top):
The guru approach to karmic mismatch is the equivalent of the home
game played with the rules of the home team. The guru has an
established tradition and way of being in the world. Individual come
to him/her and focus on their presences. Focusing on the guru as the
focus of their meditation and their life is part of the process For
some gurus that is the process. To say nothing but only be the focus
of the disciple’s meditation, the disciples’s watchfulness, the
disciple’s observation and the disciple’s awareness.
The other part involves the individual’s karmic mismatch. The
individuals who come will have a variety of issues either about the
guru’s approach, their own lives, or the universe itself. If the
guru chooses only to sit, the individual must wrestle with all their
issues inside themselves. They must continually bring themselves
back to the focus on the state of being embodied in the guru.
If the guru chooses to just be who and what they are, the individual
must create the reality that they become the guru. That is, they
become the object of their focus for they have made the judgement
that the guru’s way of being is the way they want to be.
If the guru chooses to engage the individual on their issues in
whatever way the guru chooses, he will be moving from his way of
being more towards the individual’s state of being. This means the
guru will pick up the individual’s karmic burden. He is
relinquishing his own state of being to be present to another who is
outside of their state of being and living their karmic mismatch.
Although the guru moves from being centered in his natural way of
being he keeps focused on his way of being. The guru pulls the
individual towards him by working on the mismatch between the
individual’s way of thinking and being in the world and the guru’s
way of thinking and being in the world.
If the guru forgets, which they sometimes do, they pick up a karmic
burden and then must shed that burden in a way most appropriate to
themselves. The only really issues with the guru path is the
individual focuses on the guru and his state of being that is
created from within the guru’s tradition rather than the individual
following their own unique path. It is to be noted that the guru
path is sometimes called the path of the heart because the guru
becomes the sole focus of the disciples love and attention. But one
needs to ask if loving the guru and denying the love of oneself as a
unique creation is really the path of the heart.
Portaging
approach to karmic mismatch (Top):
Portaging is unlike the teacher or the guru approach and uses a
different philosophy. The teacher and guru approach look to the
karmic mismatch as a result of failure to align enculturated beliefs
with beliefs that transcend our current life. To address this issue
both the teacher and guru provide a set of beliefs that can
transcend our current life and an enculturation which allows the
individuals to align both. Portaging is different in that it about
creating a space for another to become true to themselves and
helping to carry their load while they rest, heal and find
themselves. To portage we work with the individual in their world
and are present to their needs. All we do is help them to move a new
current in life.
The concept of portaging comes from the way many Native Americans
used the inland streams and rivers. Traveling in a canoe was much
faster than traveling overland through thick forests. But the
streams did not always go where you needed to go. Rather than travel
across land, the Indians would travel the rivers and then portage
their canoe and baggage across a narrow stretch of land to a new
river or stream that would get them were they needed to go. However
a fully loaded canoe and maybe the canoe itself cannot be carried by
one individual. Analogously, if an individual wants to take their
canoe and all their baggage out of one river of life and carry it to
another, they will need some assistance. Portaging is not about
directing a person or acting as a guide. Rather we function only to
help in the way the need help to move out of our flow of life into
another. It is to assist the individual in becoming the mythical
phoenix and recreating their life.
In portaging is based on the realization that the individual needs
to learn to follow their heart and to move in whatever stream of
life to which their heart leads them. It is about assisting the
individual to align with the
creative life energy that flows within their being and sustains
them. It is also to help the individual to get in touch with the
reason they incarnated to either chose to align with that reason or
at least be aware of what direction it is and has been leading them.
Portaging is much more similar to gardening than some type of
teacher-disciple, priest-disciple or guru-disciple path. It is about
gardening our
mind and what we do to see if we are nurturing the individual’s
creative spirit. Portaging is about becoming a gardener who
nurtures the individual into their own unique path the way one would
help a seed to grow.
The gardener does not make the seed grow rather it only assists its
growth by provided nutrients, water and maybe some weeding.
Portaging seeks to analogously do the same. In portaging, the
individual is always in control of where they want to go and the
gardener only helps to carry their baggage. But in helping them
carry the baggage they help to discard what they no longer need. The
individual is lead to new currents of life that are found within the
individual’s own heart. We help the individual to explore and
replace beliefs that the individual holds about the nature of
themselves and reality to create experiences
which serve the individual and help them to create
a life worth living.
In this path, the gardener is willing accept the other person’s
karmic burden for a short time until the individual can get firmly
place in a new life current. Then that current will lead the
individual to where they need to go, not the gardener. The biggest
issue with this path is that the gardener needs to remember that
they are there only to help the individual for a short period of
time and they move on to another. There is no tradition to follow
and there is no community to build. The only goal is to get the
individual to operate from their own internal compass of the heart.
To do this, the gardener must remain focused on what it is they are
doing and not pick up a karmic burden. The easiest way to do this is
to make the portage as close to
creative play as possible and be in the innocents of play. Then
the load is light and easily released when the individual reaches
the new currents of life and realize the load they were carrying was
not needed and simply slowing them down.
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