Dependent Origination - Karma - Quotations by Zen Master Rama, Dr.
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Frederick Lenz
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For every action there is a reaction. Karma can be examined within the
structure of an hour, a year, a lifetime, a thousand lifetimes.
What is gone before is gone. All you have now are the results of your
actions.
Karma has always existed, as have you, I, and all things in this
wonderful universe.
Buddhists understand that today, and all other days, have turned out
the way they have because of karma. The interconnection of one moment
with another moment, and of one action with another action, is karma.
Everything that exists in this or any other world or dimension, does so
because of the way that things were in the previous moment. I call
this the karma of moment.
The karma of immediate availability is the condition of your awareness
field. The karma of potentiality is what is stored inside you from
your past lives.
What you have done causes things to happen. Your situation in life now
has been caused, is predicated upon, your previous actions. That is
karma.
Karma is simply the law of cause and effect in action. All moments and
occurrences are caused by other moments and occurrences that preceded
them in an endless, causal chain.
There are physical karmas. They are reactions and results from
actions. But those are bound to a particular lifetime.
There are physical karmas that carry through death. Jesus Christ may
no longer be with us but his effects continue on in the world. Those
waves will be passed on from one person to another to another.
Someone mugs you, they attack you. Is that your karma? Not
necessarily. Innocence does not protect you from the evil designs of
others.
Karma doesn't mean that everything works out justly.
Karma is not a cop-out. The esoteric meaning of karma is that you are
who you are, because of what you have done and who you have been.
Karma indicates action, but not necessarily physical action; nor is
karma a result in the sense of a reward.
It is good not to think of karma as an alien force that is outside of
yourself. You are the generator of karma. Karma is the energy
patterns that emanate from your life.
Your karma is the sum total of your awareness field. Your awareness
field is comprised of all the experiences that you've had in this life
and all other lives.
You are new at every moment. You are an extension of the previous
moment of your awareness. You can radically change, if you unhook
yourself from what you have been.
Karma means who you are and where your awareness field is on the band
of perception.
Your states of mind do not occur randomly. They occur because of
vibratory and karmic patterns.
Everything that you have done has led up to what you are now.
Everything you do now will lead up to what you will be.
Karma is the sum total of who you are, everything you've been. The
mind state you are in is karmic. Meaning, it's related by a causal
chain of existences, of moments, of particles of timelessness.
I would suggest your awareness is your karma. How you feel generates
your level of attention.
The karma that is most interesting is the mental karma because
ultimately it generates physical action.
I would suggest your awareness is your karma. How you feel generates
your level of attention.
When you cause something to happen it causes a shift in your awareness.
Shifts in your awareness ultimately will result in a pattern shift in
your life.
All states of mind have different views. On the higher plateau,
opportunities will open to you because you can see them.
Karma will lead you to a larger more expansive happier view or a
dingier darker view. That view will enable you to make choices and
have experiences.
Karma is engendered by states of mind. If you are in a happy state of
mind, that will engender one kind of karma. If you are in an unhappy
state of mind, that will engender another kind of karma.
The state of mind that you are in causes you to act in a certain way.
Your actions will bear results. The ultimate result of all karmas and
actions is state of mind. You are your state of mind.
Karma means that through your thoughts and feelings and actions, you
are generating a state of mind. That state of mind has a view. That
view will cause things to happen to you or not happen to you.
It is best to think of karma, not so much in terms of physical action,
but as waveforms of vibratory energy.
Each of is endlessly generating waves with our actions. If you could
see the earth from a vibratory point of view, you would see something
like radio waves, billions of them, cascading constantly into very
complex patterns all over the earth.
Your karma is the state of mind that you are in, and that state of mind
will cause you to deal with every moment in your life in a certain way.
Your choices are really very limited. They are limited by your level
of awareness. If you can change your level of awareness radically,
then you can change your destiny.
If you stay in the attention you are in, then you can predict
everything that will happen to you for the rest of your life.
This lifetime right now you have a specific destiny. You are destined
to die at a certain time, to make a certain amount of money, to have
certain associations and friendships.
The experiences you'll have, the people you'll love, the jobs, the
joys, the sorrows, the way you'll die. It is all predestined, unless
you will a change.
Karma exists within causality. It is three-dimensional. Free will
exists outside of causality; it is not bound by karma.
If there wasn't a way around the samskaras, no one would ever become
enlightened.
Free will exists and operates outside causality. It is not hooked to
karma. Free will is like a well that is on your property. You can
choose to draw water from the well or not.
If you choose to draw from the inner well of free will, then you can
make choices that are outside your current karmic patterns.
Free will exists within each of us. Most people choose not to use
their free will, so consequently they rarely alter their karmic
patterns.
With free will, we can modify, to a certain extent the chain of karma
that has been set in motion by the karma of the previous moment. That
is what free will really is, the ability to alter the sequence of
karmic fate.
It is always possible to get into a higher state of mind. The way you
get into a higher state of mind is by generating good karma.
The person who gives selflessly in this lifetime immediately goes into
a better state of mind. That is instant karma.
Intent is all-important. Your intent determines what happens to you
inwardly, in a karmic sense.
Everyone experiences desire. Desire is not bad. There is no good or
bad from the point of view of karma. There is only structured
reaction.
When you do things in a selfish way, let alone a destructive way, then
you are bound by that karma. Your state of mind will go down. You
will find yourself becoming depressed, nervous, anxious and upset.
Those whose primary concern is to destroy others are at the lowest
level of development. Those who are only interested in their own
satisfaction are farther along. Those who both do things for their own
satisfaction and the satisfaction of others are even father along.
Then there are saints who just constantly live for the welfare of
others.
Selfish actions create a higher karma, which brings you into higher
states of mind. When you are in higher states of mind you will see
things that you never saw before.
You did something noble. This will cause a release of energy. It
causes a vibratory shift. It means you are moving into a different
plateau of consciousness.
When you meditate you are creating karmas. You are shifting your state
of mind to a higher vibratory level that will give you a much more
expansive view.
If your motives are high and noble and your work is hard and you do a
good job, then whatever the task is in your life, it will benefit you.
By practicing Buddhist Yoga, you can become happy, ecstatic and free in
your current incarnation, even if you have never been that way before
in any of your past lives.
Happiness is something that comes from creating good karma. The monk
who feels that what they are doing is unpleasant is not really creating
any good karma and will not have a better lifetime.
If you are not happier every day, if you don't see a progression of
development, then you are certainly not practicing yoga or Buddhism and
therefore you cannot be amassing any positive karma.
My favorite cause is the enlightenment of others. I think that is the
best place to put money. You get the highest yield in terms of karma
on your money.
If you work an extra ten hours to help spread the dharma, this will
cause for much faster progression. You're doing something for a higher
cause, for a higher ideal.
Many people excuse themselves by claiming that they don't have to do
work anymore because they are beyond it. They are simply afraid of
getting their hands dirty. Getting your hands dirty washes your being.
A saint is someone who has been very selfless and, over a period of
lifetimes, generated a tremendous amount of good karma, which has
caused them to enter into very lovely states of mind.
Good karma leads to rebirth also. The desire for higher states of mind
is a desire. When you are fixated on higher states of mind, you don't
become enlightened.
- Zen Master Rama
Thank you in advance for your religious tolerance.
Ninbuk Cushdry
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Shakyamuni Buddha said, "If there had been some dharma by which I became Tathagata,
Dipamkara Buddha would not have been able to say, 'In your next life you will be a
Buddha named Shakyamuni'."