tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8467466552105314472.post3736350169672742803..comments2023-04-24T08:22:01.715-07:00Comments on Amritayana Buddhism: The Seven Kinds of KarmaWillhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15340539277090876795noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8467466552105314472.post-18309496716039763822010-02-26T09:09:27.678-08:002010-02-26T09:09:27.678-08:00Dear Attila, Very thoughtful question! The 3rd, 4t...Dear Attila, Very thoughtful question! The 3rd, 4th, and 5th ethical precepts of the Eightfold path are about not creating any more new adverse karma. In general, yes, the ethical idealism of most religions has the intention of not creating anymore bad karma. The 6th, 7th, and 8th precepts of the Eightfold Path are about burning away the karma, as root samskaras in the subconscious mind, that have already been planted (the 1st and 2nd precepts are about getting the understanding of what is needed and committing to the healing process). The natural behavior of an enlightened being, motivated by unconditional love, guided by wisdom, and interacting with skillful creativity is beyond creating adverse karma. The ethical ideals are meant to emulate the behavior of awakened Buddha nature. I say "meant to" because sometimes the moral rules of a religion do not express a high level of ethical idealism. For instance, I do not think stoning homosexuals to death for being homosexuals is even ethical at all and chopping off hands for stealing is overpunishment. The phrase "developed astral body" is interesting, because the astral body is our emotional body, and some teachers have shared that there is a "higher emotional center" that eventually awakens in us. The forerunner to this is our awakened conscience. When this starts to awaken, we feel deep remorse for our unconscious behavior and how it has hurt others. This remorse can burn away the roots of adverse karma very quickly and very directly. The main reason why I gave the list of 7 karmas was to sensitize one to how karma in general works and the forms it takes. As a healer, I have found it necessary to notice them this way in order to apply various remedies. Obscuring karma dissolves in the light of awareness. General karma dissolves in blessing energy and breathing. Imprint karma dissolves through mandala work and dreambody work. Completion karma dissolves by allowing completion to happen. Habit force dissolves by commitment and discipline. Balancing karma dissolves by simply accepting why it has happened and accepting the lesson. If a person resents the lesson, then there is a trace of karma yet to be dissolved. You are right in that bad, unwholesome, or painful karma is ultimately the same and is something not worth creating. The remedies are more about as painlessly as possible dissolving such karma before they manifest as painful events, while they are in subtle form. Balancing karma works very effectively, but it is also the most painful way to learn, since it means that something similar happens to us that we did to others. Oddly enough part of having a conscience is becoming so empathic to the sorrow of others that we cut off any motivation to hurt others for any reason. This empathy stops us from generating the energy that attracts painful balancing events to us, because our empathy has already created the experience merely by sensing it in others. This kind of empathy accelerates our emotional evolution. The Dakini Unishavijaya is invoked in the "Trinity of Immortality" (with Amitayus and White Tara) to help beings uproot the deep karmas that cause aging, traumatic accidents, and death (on the level of the subconscious mind and the subtle energies). The key that the Buddha gave was to show subconscious thought impressions (samskaras) are at the root of our karmaic activity and how to end this activity by uprooting them (in meditation). Blessings, WillWillhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15340539277090876795noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8467466552105314472.post-13083426345965592902010-02-25T23:21:57.655-08:002010-02-25T23:21:57.655-08:00Hi Will,
So if we list them all then :: obscuring...Hi Will,<br /><br />So if we list them all then :: obscuring karma , general karma , balancing karma ,habit force ,like attracts like,completion karma, imprint karma. Only Balancing karma is the karma which help us undoing the bad karma we did in past , and rest of the Karma in one way or other creates the bad karma for us. Let me know if i am wrong anywhere and i am interested in how to make use of these seven kind of karma's. <br /><br />If we able to identify the kind of karma we are going to create/generate and at the same time keep the 'aim' in our mind to not to get involve into those karma which leads us to no where ? All the rules given by all the religions 12 nidanas in Buddhism , 10 commandments in Christianity , 5 ethical vows of Jains are given so that we can create only good karma and at the same time not to create bad karma ?? I somewhere read that all rules and laws given to us are based on the normal life of those being who already have developed astral body , but layman's like us don't see the relation between these two ??<br /><br />Just asking :-) and thanks a lot for the posts.Amit Hembromhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12345435749990829124noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8467466552105314472.post-11419495210208031222010-02-24T09:28:46.050-08:002010-02-24T09:28:46.050-08:00I wanted to add a footnote that the different kind...I wanted to add a footnote that the different kinds of karma are symbolized in Astrology by the planets. Saturn is repetitive karma that keeps happening until a lesson is learned. Pluto is generational karma that is transmitted through a family lineage (like attracts like). Neptune is karma that has to do with illusion versus reality (obscuration and projection). Chiron is karma that has to do with "sink or swim". When Chiron works we either pass the test or die. Retrograde patterns are "review karma", we go over old ground to see if we missed learning anything about what happened. Opposition patterns have to do with transforming conflict into complimentarity. Square patterns have to do with things running cross purposes to each other and require a lot of awareness to harmonize. Triangle patterns are generally good karmas where things work synergistically in easy manner. 12th house patterns relate to things that come from other lifetimes. 4th house family patterns are also worth looking at in terms of karmaic patterns that are inherited. Astrology works through understanding synchronicity and how planetary patterns are synchronistic with human life patterns. Behind this is a kind of psychophysical psychology similar to the 12 nidanas in Buddhism. The psychological language of astrology has very rich descriptors for many processes. Even if astrology is only seen as a series of psychological metaphors to describe our inner life, it would be worth studying in this regard.Willhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15340539277090876795noreply@blogger.com