How karma is fixed

The Transmission of the Vinaya says ' Whatever karma is created will bring a corresponding result'

Now is the time that we create karmic causes so we must exercise care, for it is impossible to put things right once the cause has produced results.

Cause and effect is extremely subtle, because one accumalates will bring the corresponding result.

Karma shows great increase

Internal causes produce much greater effects than external causes. Even so, here is an example of an external cause and its results:

a great tree grows from but a single tiny peach stone, and every year the tree yields hundreds of thousands of things - leaves and fruit. Though this is a big increase, internal causes yield even bigger results.


one does not meet with something if one has not created it the karma for it to happen

Karma once created will not disappear of it's own accord

Not such thing as Luck?

Luck is said to be 'prepared-ness' (good actions / karma, pure intention/ motivation) and 'right opportunity' (synchronicity - flow)

Often successful people say they were in the right place at the right time - what does that mean?

I think it means they were in the flow, aware of opportunities and synchroncities and it was their next step based on their karmic past!

If you've got a lot of bad karma going on

take a step back, look at your life
it may be a sign - learn possible lessons
be harmless, be aware of ego, fears, motivation
see the good / positive in the situation - there is always a silver lining!
Bad Karma 'too shall soon pass (law of impermanence)
from crisis and suffering comes opportunity, lessons renewal and faith
maybe you've got some serious karma to pay off from past life!!
To build up good karma -

give money to less fortunate people (10% - 50% of salary)
Have / show / Be compassion and mercy for all sentient beings ie. become vegetarian, non-violent
develop your inner virtues ie. patience, generosity, wisdom, concentration, effort, reverance, gratitude etc.
see virtue page

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Gathering Good Karma - Accumulating Merit

"Strong Tea needs much milk!"

Thus Buddhists recommend that we build good karma as soon as possible -
if anything it is like sweetness around hot chillies!

To gain good karma practice virtues, such as the 5 perfections in Buddhism - generosity, patience, praise, compassion, loving-kindness, etc. (See buddhism)

Also always have a pure alturistic intention / motivation - eg. for highest good of all

Cultivate Compassion, Develop Bodhicitta (see Bodhicitta & Compassion page), Be loving& Kind, Compassionate & Joyful!

Be in alignment with your Soul / Higher Self

Take refuge with the Three Jewels - The Buddha, Dharma (teachings) and the Sangha (Community)

Serve & Share with Others / GOD / LIFE / SOUL / MONAD

Tithing - give 10% of your income away - to Charity / 'less fortunate' etc. - this affirms your abundance and keeps the money flowing and in circulation

The aim of buddhism is to transcend karma, the wheel of rebirth and to practise harmlessness - thus creating no new bad karma, - for yourself and for all sentient beings if you so choose.

Many buddhist teachers suggest we have a back log of karma to pay off.

Spiritually evolved beings pay off / feel your karma with you - satsang and Dhashan clear out negative karma

You may notice situations in which people are having bad luck / karma in front of or with you - you may be assisting their karmic clearing or you maybe there to learn lessons from a different perspective (especially if you yourself have experienced such 'bad luck'

Some Insights

"Where thought (yi) goes, energy (chi) follows" Chinese Proverb

Karma, the law of cause and effect, relates to your actions, words, feelings and even thoughts!

If prayer / positive intention is proven to work then it stands to reason that negative intention will also effect other people. So imagine everytime you have a negative thought, you are sowing the seeds of suffering for yourself!

I have often found that when either a friend of mine or myself, get hurt by accident (eg. stubbing toe), just before we get hurt we were thinking, doing or saying something negative, (especially without awareness).

Now I hurt myself, by accident, much less!!

Once you are aware of karma and it's consequences your life changes

Just try it. If you steal or do something negative just be aware in the next few mins, half hour, hour, day /week / etc. for any thing negative - notice if you lose something or have unexpected payments / fines / losses / bad experiences. Is there a link?!!

Karma holds and is a true law - Padmasambhava, even though a highly realized master, had high respect for the law of karma, and always acted in accordance with it.

There are obviously varying degrees of good / bad karma. Different levels of Karma - Personal, Group, Race, etc Karma also extends over past and future lives.

Karma is linked in with synchronisity - it works through subtle ways - this is Divine Law - often working mysteriously beyond rational logic!


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Synchronicity and Cause and Effect

(An excerpt from God's Vision)

Cause and effect is a law of the material universe. Science knows that every action has an equal and opposite reaction. Synchronicity extends this law into all of the complex interconnected web of human life. All positive and negative energy that we put out returns to us in equal and appropriate measure, as existence echoes back our inner world, sometimes instantly, but more often in our future. This is the law of balance, or karma. God has a very tidy, just and fair mind. He always perfectly balances everyone's thoughts, words and deeds with appropriate life experiences, eventually. Some of our best scientists are still trying to discover the secret to the mind of God. God's greatest creative challenge and interest - as He is programming every soul with all of the experiences that they require - is the complexity of perfectly balancing all human energy exchanges, between billions of souls over thousands of years. Understanding the law of balance helps you to accept your situation with equanimity, and gives an insight into the cosmic mind of God.

Synchronicity is the application of the law of balance in all realms of human life. It differs from cause and effect in its apparent unpredictability. Meditation, for example, can appear to generate very different results - every meditator knows the unpredictable nature of their practice, as do psychics and healers. But deep down synchronicity also follows the law of cause and effect. It is perfectly fair and just, although humans can never understand the complexity of all the connections involved. And the time delay between most actions and their inevitable consequences can give the impression that life is unfair.

Serendipity, happy coincidence, is only one minor aspect of synchronicity. The apparent unpredictability of inner science separates it from the obvious predictability of material science. And inner scientists cannot prove their results objectively, their laboratory is their subjective experience. This subjective knowing from direct experience is enough for the inner scientist.

Buddha knows what enlightenment is but cannot prove it objectively. Mysticism and science do share some common ground. They both start with a hypothesis and experiment to verify it, but the unpredictability of synchronicity (due to the time delay) apparently renders inner science inconsistent. Whereas the certainty of cause and effect in the material realm allows the outer scientist the luxury of consistency.

Love Maitreya

No such thing as Karma?

Sri Ramana accepted the validity of the laws of karma but said they were only applicable as long as a person imagined that he was separate from the Self. At this level (the level of ajnani), he said that individuals will pass through a series of pre-ordained activities and experiences, all of which are the consequences of previous acts and thoughts. He occasionally even said that every act and experience in a person's life is determined at birth and the only freedom one has is to realize that there is no one acting and no one experiencing. However, once one realizes the Self there is no one left to experience the consequences of actions and so the whole structure of karmic laws then becomes redundant.Sri Ramana regarded the law of Karma as a manifestation of God's will.

He said that prior to Self-realisation there is a personal God, Ishwara, who controls each person's destiny. It is ishwara who has ordained that everyone must suffer the consequences of his actions and it is Ishwara who selects the sequence of activities that each person must undergo in each lifetime. One cannot escape from Ishwara's jurisdiction while one still identifies with the activities of the body.

The only way to become free of his authority is to transcend karma completely by realising the Self.

When there is no I, there is no Karma.

The more you prune a plant the more it grows. The more you rectify your karma the more it accumulates. Find the root of karma (ego) and cut it off!

Q: The present is said to be due to past karma. Can we transcend the past karma by our free will now?

A: See what the present is. If you do this you will understand what is affected by or has a past or a future, what is ever-present and always free and what remains unaffected by the past or the future or by any past karma. Sri Ramana


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The essence of Karma is to know the truth of oneself by enquiring who am I? the doer, who begins to do the karmas?' Unless the doer of karmas, the ego, is annihilated through enquiry, the perfect peace of supreme bliss, which is the result of karma yoga, cannot be acheived.

Harmlessness is the path of no new bad karma.

While still in the physical it is very difficult not to accumulate karma -

On a high, absolute, perspective there is no Karma - even the Law of Karma is an illusion - part of samsara / existence Also there is no use saying there is no karma if one is still affected by actions and experiences.

However wrong understanding can lead to lower next rebirth. Likewise we can have a positive account only to fall into the negative rather swiftly if we have negative actions and thoughts.

Astrology -Star Signs

For - There is truth to Astrology
It's not so much whether or not you believe in star signs as much as is there truth in them!

I believe they help predict certain behaviours. People of same sign tend to have similar personality traits

I tend to meet and get on better with certain signs.

Although everyone is an individual we are all linked / interconnected

The time of year, position of the planets at time of birth / conception may well have an effect on your personality. That's what Ayurveda teaches. Your name chosen is based on time & date of your birth.

Likewise I like the way Native American Indians deal with this issue - time of year / season that you were born is related to your personality. eg. Aries, born in spring - so according to N. I. - Aries (fire) are Falcons (hawk clan) - which are like a seed coming up in spring - energy bursting out - full of vitality, adventurous, wants to see what's going on....

Hermes - 'as within so without, as above so below'

The moon's gravity pulls water, this planet is 80% water, we are 80% water , womens mens-truations cycle is affected by moon so obviously emotions are affected also. {G-ra-vit-y (Gamma - ray - of vitae / life)

We need a balance in Life. eg. Yin / Yang etc.

This leads to opposites attract. For example:

Aries & Libra are opposite signs in the Zodiac. Opposites are compatible with each other, although arguments can occur. I (aries) had such a relationship (with Libra) for four years, and I feel we both benefitted and learned from each others' differences.

Opposite signs often have a chemistry or deeper level of understanding. They also admire attributes in the opposite sign that they would like for themselves.

having relationships with our opposite signs - will lead to us becoming more balanced individual. However accorinding to Native American Earth Medicine we individuals in the same clan are most compatible - eg. Aries, Leo & Sagittarius or Aquarius, Gemini, Libra, etc.

We often argue about similarities that exist between people, especially with family! Quite often we don't like in others that which we need to improve about ourselves.



But Don't get too worried about just looking for that opposite, you could be waiting a long time!

Vs. Astrology is a load of rubbish

It is a major generalisation to stereotype people and put them into pigeon holes - people are individuals

People only attribute a sign's characteristics to those characteristics of a person that they want to -

People see what you want to see - hear what want to hear

Horoscopes in papers are often made up

Where do we draw the line - which other predictive belief's are true: Chinese Birth Year, Numerology, Palmistry, I Ching, Tarot Cards, Magic ball

Obviously family, school, society, genes, childhood make up somebodies personality

Vedic Astrology

Vedic Astrology" is the science of ancient India that reveals your past, present and future.

To the ancient sages of India, a person's "fate" was a result of the accumulated effects of their actions from previous lives, and could be known to some degree by examining the planetary patterns at the moment of their birth.

They perceived that a child is born on that day and that hour when the planetary influences are in mathematical harmony with his or her individual karma - the effects of their past actions.

Out of their compassion, they bequeathed the mankind Jyotisha, or The Science of Light, an ancient and very powerful form of astrology used to diagnose karma. This diagnosis then serves as a basis for helping to guide a person in their life and prescribe powerful, personalized spiritual techniques (upayas) for enhancing positive


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Native American Indian Earth Medicine

According to this system your most compatitble people are in the same clan For Example = Fire - Hawk Clan, Aries, sag, leo)
Air - Butterfly (Aquarius, Gemini, Libra )

Aries - Falcon - born in spring - big picture, visionary / leader , like a seed sprouting, energy, wants to experience and know self

Sagittarius - Owl - middle ground - in trees, buildings - in between Falcon & salmon

Leo - Salmon - king of the fish, needs to master emotions

Scorpio - Snake, needs to develop renewal


Otter ~ Aquarius
Wolf ~ Pisces
Falcon ~ Aries
Beaver ~ Taurus
Deer ~ Gemini
Woodpecker ~ Cancer
Salmon ~ Leo
Brown Bear ~ Virgo
Crow ~ Libra
Snake ~ Scorpio
Owl ~ Sagittarius
Goose ~ Capricorn

There is much more information, for each sign on the following topics:

Earth Influence:
Solar Influences
Influencing Wind:
Influencing Elements:
Elemental Clan:
Birth & Animal Totem:
Plant Totem:
Mineral Totem:
Polarity Totem:
Personality Expression: Adult, Child, Parent
Romance & Sex
Health
Affinity Colour:
Advantageous Times
Outward (Conscious)Aim and Inner (subconscious) desire
Spiritual Alchemy
Life-Challenges
Primary Function & Life Path
The Iching Diagram
How to Cope with ...

read - Native American Indian Earth Medicine by Kenneth Meadows - I found this book amazingly accurate -so did all my friends - even sceptical ones!

/divinate/indian.htm - This site gives you basics of each sign

Believe what you want to believe, but don't live life to the letter of your daily horoscope, and don't only date people of certain signs. Be aware learn something from every person / type of person.

There is nothing wrong with having starsigns as a hobby - it is often a good conversation starter. However don't go mad - only speaking to certain signs - be open minded it could be wrong, but then again it could be right.

One can use these characteristics to make better decisions when having relations (business or social) with certain signs. Afterall forewarned and prepared is good and you've got nothing tio lose.

I have found certain astrologers are more accurate than others. But generally I don't believe in the daily horoscopes

If you don't believe in star signs then your sign is probably one that does n 't believe in such matters!! eg Pisces

You can probably develop or see any of these tendencies in yourself - maybe that is the point - go out with your opposite sign and learn good traits from other signs. Your opposite sign being most beneficial - leading to balance.

Transcending Astrology

The goal of understanding Astrology is to understand your life better and thus have peace of mind and direction. Also we should learn from each sign and integrate the positive into our life. The goal is to go through each house / sign, learning the lessons at each stage.

It is said that you are reborn in each sign to experience life from different angles. You could potentially learn all the lessons from each sign / element in one lifetime.

Become aware of the sign and characteristics, however don't be attached to your role in life.

I believe star signs make up part of the personality and can influence our emotions. However personalities can change, and aren't your true self. Your true self is balanced, inherently good and has potential for any characteristic. Find your true self; by learning about self (habits, beliefs, fears, life lessons etc,) and through relationships with different signs.

There are similarities but everyone's personality is individual - based on experiences, memories, habits, beliefs, ego etc.

There is unity and indiviuality simultanseously.

http://www.meaningoflife.i12.com/Star%20Signs.htm

related reading

*****Native American Indian Earth Medicine by Kenneth Meadows - definitely worth getting, all my friends (even ones who don;t believe in star signs like this book). It has lots of good info on each sign eg. life path, subconscious, good colours, desires etc.
Do It Yourself Life Plan Astrology, by Lyn Birkbeck (US/ UK)
The Astrolabe World Ephemeris: 2001-2050 at Noon
by Robert Hand
Raphael's Astronomical Ephemeris of the Planet's Places for 2003 (Raphael's Astronomical Ephemeris of the Plantes Places, 200
by Edwin Raphael (Paperback - May 2002)
Linda Goodman's Star Cards : A Divination Set Inspired by the Astrological and Numerological Teachings of Linda Goodman ~Crystal Bush
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ASTROLOGY AND KABBALAH A Re-write of the Anatomy of Fate by Z'ev ben Shimon Halevi (Warren Kenton) ISBN: 1 871989 07 8
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Books by Edgar Cayce

Edgar Cayce's Astrology for the Soul -- Margaret Gammon, W. H. Church (Paperback - A.R.E. Press (Association of Research & Enlig - 1 December, 1998)