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THE NATURE OF KARMIC BONDS
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- The depth of our emotional engagement (the drive, the passion) with which we pursue our desires and ideas determines what strength these bonds will have and for how long we will be subject to their influence. Once we understand this mechanism, we can separate the accumulated karmic matter from our consciousness (i.e. dissolve our emotional attachment to the themes of life we are - negatively or positively - attracted to). In this process we gain progressively more access to the immense abilities hidden within us.
Although our five senses cannot directly perceive the attachment of karma to our interactive karmic field, many events in daily life demonstrate this mechanism. One example: When we become strongly interested in a particular type of information, we create a subtle attraction for knowledge of this kind. Our strong interest acts like a magnet that draws the desired material towards us. Often friends, co-workers and even total strangers begin to collect information for us though we never explicitly requested it. - An invisible process attracts exactly what we desire.
When we direct this invisible process towards harmful emotions like anger, pride, the intention to deceive others and greed we attach ourselves emotionally to the very situations, persons or objects on which we focus these negative passions. Passionate emotions are the cement that bonds our consciousness to the subtle matter that causes karmic processes. Yet karmic matter is foreign to our innermost nature (consciousness). Any prolonged association with it limits our abilities severely.
As long as we are unaware of this mechanism, we will be at its mercy. As long as we make no attempt to control it, we will be unable to prevent negative situations to occur again and again. Yet the mechanism itself is easy to identify, to understand and to control:
When an event triggers highly charged, negative emotions within us, we usually try to end the situation by rejecting, rationalizing, ignoring or avoiding the event. Yet this solely mental or emotional rejec
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