Karma the Mechanism

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

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SUTRAS
ATTRACTION TO KARMA
Sadness and grief is the separation from a being to whom we feel attached, or to an object we regard as useful, desirable, or whose presence we deem essential.
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Shame (remorse) is the experience of rejection, degradation, repentance and the feeling of guilt.
Commiseration is a feeling of attractive sadness we direct towards ourselves or others. It wants to partake in a real or imagined misfortune of ourselves or others through an additional negative feeling - commiseration.
Intentionally depriving others of their vitality means all activities that prevent other beings from fully unfolding their life, their senseorgans, vitality and respiration.
Lamenting is piteous public moaning with the intention to arouse the compassion of others to secure their help and sympathy (i.e. their energy).
The theme of this sutra is pain and painful feelings. The examples mentioned in the sutra only illustrate the subject, a complete listing is not intended.
As long as we still possess karma of this character, we cannot prevent pain and painful feelings to occur. Yet all actual experience of pain only indicates that this particular part of our 'pain'-karma is now in the process of being removed. The activation dissolves it. It ceases to bind us and will never bother us again. An attitude of equanimity ensures that the actual manifestation of negative karma will not bind further (pain-) karma of the same kind.
If we want to control this process, it helps to distantly observe and impartially examine the real cause behind a particular painful feeling. Very often we arbitrarily project the 'cause' for painful feelings onto an object or being that is only accidentally present in our environment and not in any way connected to the dissolving karma.