Karma the Mechanism

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

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KARMA - THE MECHANISM
SUTRAS
For how long and how intensely we experience karma when it activates is determined by the depth of our emotional engagement in the action with which we originally caused the attachment of a particular karma to our interactive karmic field.
The activation (manifestation) of latent karma dissolves our bond with the activated karma. Dissolved karmic bonds do not affect us any more.
We usually interpret the manifestation of karma as positive or negative influences in our life, - e.g. as success or failure of our actions, our words (our ability to communicate and to convince) and as the power and clarity of our thoughts.
Yet there is no reason to see karma solely as burden that needs to be worked off diligently or suffered through stoically only to produce a feeling of relief at its final dissolution. Karnia is nothing other than the mechanism that makes us thoroughly experience the themes of our life until we gained optimal knowledge from them and until our emotional attachment to these themes falls off.
What karma makes us experience is basically a neutral growthprocess we need not interpret in a negative way. 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 reach results we desire, the more we will interpret it as supportive.
Activities triggered by the manifestation of karma do not automatically bind further karma. Yet if we react to a karmic manifestation with strong - positive or negative - emotions, we attract new karma, i.e. we attach new karmic matter to our karmic field that will influence us. This renewed attraction can easily create a cycle of accumulating and discarding the same type of karma. In this case we usually get the feeling that the same theme of life is recurring again and again. This cycle of attracting and discarding the same type of karma appears to us as if there exists a strong (karmic) bond between our consciousness and one particular theme of life.