In order to become whole, the soul must balance its energy. It must experience the effects that it has caused.
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More on Karma???
Chapter Two takes me to a topic I have been exploring in great detail lately: Karma. And the take away from reading it is that Karma isn't personal. We see a problem with Life circumstance when we personalize Karma...believing that our personalities are being pointed out and punished when we encounter less than favorable circumstances. Not the case!
If that personality does not understand that the experience of [whatever negative situation it is encountering]is the effect of a previous cause, and this experience is bringing to completion an impersonal process, it will react from a personal point of view rather than from the point of view of its soul. Page 26
Suffering Has a Purpose!
Karma is simply how our souls balance the energies our personalities create in our everyday affairs. Karma means that healing is taking place even if we cannot see it. If we knew that we would let go of our judgments that suffering is unfair. When we see ourselves suffering, or as I have been so consumed lately, others suffering from what seem to be unfair and unjust circumstances, or others causing suffering...we would realize the perfection in it. We would understand that at a greater level something amazing is happening. Healing and balancing is taking place. We would respond compassionately to the suffering of others but we would stop looking at it as if it was "wrong, bad, shouldn't be" which just adds to our sense of suffering.
It is appropriate that we respond to his or her circumstances with compassion, but it is not appropriate that we perceive it as unfair becasue it is not. page 29
There is so much we do not understand underneath the obvious of our experiences and the experiences we witness others going through. We cannot judge Life for doing what it does to help us evolve because we do not know the reasons beneath why bad things seem to happen to us or everyone else. We just need to trust it and let go of those judgments and criticism that keeps us tangled up in the cause and effect of Karma.
Non judgmental justice is a perception that allows you to see everything in Life [the good, the bad and the ugly], but does not engage your negative emotions. Non-judgmental justice relieves you of the self-appointed job of judge and jury becasue you know that everything is being seen-nothing escapes the law of Karma- and this brings forth understanding and compassion. page 30
Hmmm! A lot of learning here. Let's let Life do what Life does.
All is well
Gary Zukav (1989/2014) The sEat of the Soul. New York: Simon and Schuster.
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