You can get so caught up in learning all about reincarnation, you can get so caught up in learning about structures, fascinating though they may be, that you’re not free; you’re just studying a different textbook.
You can summon up power from past lives and bring them into this life. That can give you a boost into the next state of mind or further up.
When a person who has had highly evolved past lives is going through a strong past-life transit, that person comes to know things about life, death and other dimensions that most people in our world aren’t aware of.
The knowledge of reincarnation assures us that life is worth living. Life is not a one-shot deal. It is forever.
Karmic progression implies that we are kind of alliterating steps to life. There’s alliteration, a kind of rhythmic structure. Once we’re in time and space, the variable structures are somewhat limited.
To try and fit reincarnation into a neat mental package is very unwise. You will be very surprised when you discover that it doesn’t work out that way. Your illusions will be painful for you.
What you gain in internal knowledge goes from one lifetime to another. It is not wasted. Unlike those stone edifices that will fade, your internal knowledge will stay with you from one incarnation to another.
Reincarnation is the dissolution of the self. It’s like going swimming in the ocean, no one ever comes out, because one has become the ocean.
The essence of Buddhism is simply that the mind is forever. We are always experiencing different states of mind in one form or another, in one body or another, in one life or another, forever...
For every action there is a reaction. Karma can be examined within the structure of an hour, a year, a lifetime, a thousand lifetimes.
What is gone before is gone. All you have now are the results of your actions.
Karma has always existed, as have you, I, and all things in this wonderful universe.
Everything that exists in this or any other world or dimension, does so because of the way that things were in the previous moment. I call this the karma of moment.
The karma of immediate availability is the condition of your awareness field. The karma of potentiality is what is stored inside you from your past lives.
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.
There are physical karmas that carry through death. Jesus Christ may no longer be with us but his effects continue on in the world. Those waves will be passed on from one person to another to another.
Karma doesn’t mean that everything works out justly.
Karma is not a cop-out. The esoteric meaning of karma is that you are who you are, because of what you have done and who you have been.