Karma

Mythipedia Entry – Karma

The system of cause and effect which creates mortal conditions on a causal level.

Karma lay at the root of all conditions.  In a subtle-yet-ultimately-physical way, karma are the threads of the elemental relationships which play out as the infinite variety of manifest conditions in the mortal plane.

The idea of karma is directly related to will, for it is the idea of volition expressed in a structural way as related to the etching of impressions into the ethers of consciousness.

From Wikipedia – “in the philosophical theories of Hinduism, every karma (action, intent) leaves a samskara (impression, impact, imprint) in the deeper structure of human mind”

Since all events are ultimately karmic events and since karmic impressions define point of view, it’s worthy to discuss the perception of karma through point of view itself.

All beings have their own perception of what ‘karma’ is.  Here it is less about the word or the culture that is referenced but about the physics of causality, the idea of what-causes-what over time and space.  In this context, karma is no more or less than a symbol for understanding a process.

Karma is directly related to point-of-view.  Put simply, karma creates point of view, for it is the causal reason for the repetition of certain thoughts, beliefs and ultimately experiences along one’s timeline that define one’s story.  Accordingly, all of the arts of change work to transform the substance of our karmas such that we are liberated from the repetition of what was come before.  When we apply this concept to the idea of the soul’s journey across multiple lifetimes and bodies, we gain the context for understanding the karmic due we carry into our current incarnation from previous lives and gain insight into the conditions we are currently experiencing.

Because all aspects of the Creation can ultimatley be perceived as waves of sound upon the oceans of consciousness, karmic patterns may be seen as ripples across that substance.

Because karma defines our point-of-view on a structural level, it also defines our sense of choice, for we cannot make choices about what we cannot see.