Karma the Mechanism

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

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KARMA - THE MECHANISM
SUTRAS
Most people experience life as constant alternation between action and reaction. We initiate action and the rest of the universe (including our own body and our own consciousness) reacts to this stimulus. Often the outside world introduces facts and problems and thereby triggers our responses.
This concept of action and reaction appears sensible. It gives us an idea how to manage - more or less successfully - the challenges of daily life. The more we experience - i.e. the more we know how the universe reacts to our action - the better, wiser and the more effective we should be able to conduct our life.
Yet there's a catch: Almost all our action seems to contain incalculable factors which at any time may influence, change or imperil its course. Especially long term projects have the annoying tendency to become unpredictable and even the most meticulous planning or the availability of unlimited funds and resources will not ensure success. In the end many things look entirely different from our original intent or expectation. That things turn out as planned and give us the desired satisfaction often appears more the exception than the rule.
Something seems to escape all our planning, all our calculation, - something that definitely influences everything we do and that affects all the results of our actions.
Strangely this - 'something' - which exerts central power on our life - never attracted much systematic attention of the Western sciences. So far only psychology tried to locate our actions' basic mechanisms and its propelling forces in more subtle fields than the purely material. Yet the almost 100 years of research in this direction have not produced much of a new, systematic approach to more effective conduct. Though psychology's theories may sound logical in parts, most people intuitively reject the idea of being governed by an inaccessible sub-conscience - whose hidden features may have entered there only in a dark and highly obscure way.
Yet there exists - in the Eastern part of our world - an ancient concept that not only explains the fundamental inner mechanisms of action, but gives us tangible information how to unfold a vast, unused