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Re: A conversation with Nan Huai-Chin...From: Rainbowbear
Subject: General
Date/Time 2005-07-13 20:36:03
Remote IP: 198.161.230.10
MessageI understand what you have said about the karma in this and the previous post. Such beautiful insight. I agree so much with Nan though. You cannot resist. When one is engulfed by karma it can be as if in a dark sea and you can make out only one landpost, so you grab it. Sometimes it is not the "supposedly correct choice" (by other's observations anyways). Engulfed in karma is not like having choices. It is like this whole energetic mass comes forward and heck it just sweeps you away. Sometimes you really do not have a choice. Not sure if everyone will understand this, unless of course you are aware of your karma and yet, darn you did it again. And you can see it in hindsite, but darn, at the moment you could not stop it even if you were reading it in front of you. The trick is to have the correct tools. The correct tools to dissipitate the karma. Knowing about the karma is only 5% of the solution. Tools anyone?
I have found dissipitating karma a lot of hard work. It mostly takes coming out of your box and re-entering. While you are out of your box, well I guess it could be described by this picture I have on my desk of a black and white picture of a nun on the shore of a misty lake. Nothing else around her but the mist and a few rocks and water, her hair cut short and the wind blowing her robes. You are really on your own and this is where you take it. It is a beautiful article connected to that picture. Describes it magnificently. It frightens the "be geezus" out of most of us to be by ourselves and really know that what and who we are are up to us. At that point, so far - I have reached it big time once, this total realization and feeling of total emptiness, then I got scared poopless and ran like hell. I have just quite running "again" and am restructuring to re-enter again. This time I have a couple of "tools" to help. But they are my tools that I need for my karma. They are not always the same with everyone else's karma. And you know maybe your friend really did need to punch that sucker straight in the face. Maybe it was owing to him from life before. And who knows maybe your friend will yet benefit from this event. Universe is not straightforward. Never that way. If it was we would all be laughing.
Rainbows!
Oh, one last thing, my sensei told me "Karen, you are going to kill yourself doing this, one cannot keep up such perseverance - it can eventually take your jing". Yes it can .... but my karma is attached to my kid's and when I dissipitate my karma so does theirs go and so will my grandmother's. So maybe it may help some to know that your trials and tribulations, even though made by you and you alone, can also heal many when you find the tools to face your karma.
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