Karma the Mechanism

Author(s): Hermann Kuhn
Publisher: Crosswind Publishing Germany

Page 16

THE MYSTERY
15
There just doesn't exist a shadowy 'mountain of karma' which supposedly stores all our past actions.
True, the contents of our interactive karmic field were shaped by (previous) activities - as all our life is, - but this does not mean that it contains memories of all the details of (previous) actions. The field only holds the directions in which we actively move (our desires and motives) and the intensity and the emotional thrust with which we endow our actions to reach objectives.
Karma is everything BUT a negative load on our life. The striving for fulfillment (manifestation, realization) of values and ideas originating deep within us is one of the fundamental characteristics of
tence. We want our actions to bear fruits, we want to experience these fruits and we usually have quite real ideas what these fruits should look like. The emotional power with which we pursue our ideas and desires acts like a magnet that attracts all components necessary for the fulfillment of these ideas. Karma is nothing other than the mechanism that makes us thoroughly experience the themes of our life until we gained optimial knowledge from thieni and until our emotional attachment to these thenies falls off.
It is entirely unnecessary to interpret this mechanism - the continued presentation of our life's uncompleted themes - in a negative way. What we experience is basically a neutral growth-process. The better we understand how this process works, the less we feel victimized by it. The more we control its mechanisms and the faster we achieve desired results, the less, we will interpret it as obstructive.
The Tattvarthasutra gives us the actual key to this mechanism.
But this is only the very first part of the story. As the ancient manuscript continues, it 'describes fourteen dimensions of consciousness dormant within us that offer far more fascinating and effective ways to realize our ideals and dreams than the rather limited dimension we experience at present. Though we mostly seem unaware of these higher dimensions, we often experience them as flashes of insights during everyday life. We usually discard these