Karma the Mechanism

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

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KARMA - THE MECHANISM
SUTRAS
The 14 stages of development and the Five Freedoms are described in the 'APPLICATION' part of the book in more detail.
When our emotions engage intensely in objects or events, this always signals that we want to experience the entire scope of insight these factors can offer us. And this always includes 'the other side of the coin' as well. When we e.g. direct violent emotion towards someone, we program this very moment that we also want to experience how the 'receiving' end of our emotions feels like. Once respective conducive conditions arise in our life, this karma is triggered, - usually at a time when we are as vulnerable as the person towards whom we directed our original negative emotions. This makes us experience how 'someone else' focuses his violent emotions on us and thus gives us the opportunity to go through the full scope of the event.
Unfortunately it often takes long time till - in the normal course of events - the respective conducive conditions arise. We thus may not clearly recall that we ourselves caused an experience of this kind. If we then react again with negative feelings, we catch ourselves in an endless circle of - actively and passively - manifesting the same intense emotions. If we want to break this vicious circle, it helps to become aware of this mechanism and then to consciously forego emotions like triumph or revenge, disdain or timidity, insatiability or loss at the very moment they arise. The following examples demonstrate this karmic effect: - Feeling fear, causing fear or enjoying the fear of others attracts
karma that causes fear within us. - Laughing at the misfortune of others, participating in cruel sports
or cruel entertainment, playing practical jokes, teasing others, ridiculing the path to ultimate freedom etc. attracts karma that makes us victim of these types of activities. - Desire for strange sense-enjoyments, shunning self-control etc. hardens our emotional (karmic) attachment to these types of ac