Not much changes day to day when you are focused and honed on one thing, one idea, one new attention, one new path. Let that be enough. Let your new focus be enough. Notice, as you keep your attention focused on your goal, how less and less of the old world bothers you, how it seems to fall away and behind you as you keep going forward. You are in the world for this purpose, to evolve, to change and to grow. Keep going.
“Only on the wheel of karma is there inequality; within eternity we are all the same, all One.”*
Karma is a term that depicts the universal law of cause and effect. All actions cause definite effects. The underlying principle that governs all consequences for actions taken, is balance. That imperative of balance is expressed through Newton’s Third Law of Motion: For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
When we enter the active side of infinity we take a ride on the wheel of karma. When a soul separates itself from the inert state of oneness with everything, in infinity, it loads itself upon the wheel of karma and is delivered to a specific identity, which will unfold in a specific way, as contrasted with its former state of identity with the utter wholeness and oneness of everything.
When we are born we go from a state of oneness with mother into the powerful perinatal stages of birth trauma. This violent disruption of total care and containment eventuates in a state of total dependence and relative powerlessness, as a small separate being in a huge, unfathomable world.
This action of separation alone defines the primary karma for all life: to find its way back to its original wholeness. The wheel of karma is that journey homeward. The wheel depicts the cycles of actions and reactions we live through as we accrue the knowledge to ultimately find our way home.
Karma forces us to attach to a specific identity, which influences our actions and their consequences. For instance, if I am born with dyslexia, I may learn to compensate for my difficulty with writing, spelling and reading with enhanced intuition and explanations of written works provided by ChatGPT. I might learn to hide my spelling challenges with an eccentric handwriting that no one can read.
If I am dealt the hand of poverty, I might compensate with envy, a life of crime, or a powerful intent for an abundant life. Each of these options are equal energetic options to bring balance to the action of poverty. The wheel of karma might have me explore countless compensations in my journey with poverty before I find my way back to wholeness.
The key to my ultimate release from my impoverished karma is detachment, detachment from my identity as an impoverished being who must take action to feel better about his lowly self. Total acceptance of the experience of an impoverished state, without identifying as a poor being, restores my wholeness. I am now a being with intimate knowledge of a facet of all of wholeness, that of poverty.
Detachment does not deny the full experience of an impoverished life. To the contrary, the suffering attendant to a life of poverty is fully explored with all its karmic consequences. Detachment does, however, allow one to lift the veil to one’s greater wholeness, of which poverty was the chosen facet to be explored in the taking on of a human life.
Thus, the reality of inequality, injustice and victimhood are valid descriptions of the experience we enter when we enter the active side of infinity, in physical form, to explore a facet of the jewel of all that is and all that we are. To fully know the self we must fully explore and know our shadow. To know our infinite self fully there are infinite adventures to be taken, many of which include journeys into the karmic dark side of infinity.
Growth is the imperative of the active side of infinity. To grow we must fully know every facet of all that we are. Ultimately we must experience everything. That’s our infinite destiny.
Fear not and judge not the fullness or unfairness of the life you are in. All lives are equal and valid facets of all that is. Our differences are merely the current seat we occupy on the karmic wheel of existence. It’s a relative, not a permanent, seat.
No matter what life circumstance you are currently in, free yourself from total identification with it. See it as a necessary stop in your infinite journey of exploration of all that is. Furthermore, wakeup to the power of suggestion in your subconscious mind. You can direct the energy of karma into materializing consequences for your greater good.
The thoughts you most often entertain will be compulsively manifested by the power of your subconscious mind. Take control of your thoughts and enjoy their resulting karma. The equal and opposite reaction of a thought is its manifestation in physical form. From the spirit of thought comes its opposite, its physical birth in matter. Spend your karmic thought wisely, for the greater good of self and other.
Beneath it all, we are all one, Chuck
* Sam Reifler, I Ching: A New Interpretation for Modern Times, p. 238.
All in all, it’s been a pretty good week. Things are getting accomplished that have been on the back burner for a long time. You are doing your inner work and facing your issues. You are coming into yourself a little bit more each day, and that is good! Keep up the good work and before you know it you will be so far ahead of where you are now that it will seem like another lifetime. New life is just around the corner. Keep going.
Announce to yourself today that nothing is going to stop you from continuing your journey to wholeness, that nothing is going to get in the way of facing what you must face. It’s time now to finish your self-imposed search for the truth about yourself, to solve and resolve the issues that keep you from feeling at home in the world, that keep you from feeling at home in your body, and that keep you from reaching the inner peace you know exists within you. Keep searching for meaning in your life. You are so close.
Unearth your true needs and your true feelings today as you determine that you will be honest and forthcoming today, that nothing will block you from being your true self. Let yourself in on the secret that you are hiding things from yourself, things you are not ready to face. But, instead of perpetuating lies and coverups, seek instead to get to the bottom of what troubles you so that you can move another step closer to being more honest and truthful with yourself, and thus with all others in your life as well. You are only as honest as you can be with yourself. How is that going?