It's Your Karma

It's all your karma. What does that mean? Is your life all planned out and going according to your Karma? Does this mean you have to just accept everything? Are you able to take control and influence your life circustances? Khentrul Rinpoche explains in a few minutes the meaning of Karma while clarifying the common misconceptions of karma.

Transcript

There is a large number of people who have many types of misconceptions of karma.

So I'm going to try to clarify those points.

It's really important.

Some think that karma is something already done,

So you cannot do anything about it.

So whether you have to experience this suffering or unfortunate or whatever is meant to happen is meant to happen.

It is karma,

So you can't do anything.

So this is wrong.

So it's not like that.

So that is one thing.

Then the second,

People think that karma is.

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Karma means everything is about bad and bad things happened,

Karma chasing you,

And you know,

So then sometimes people have many remedies for that.

And they see it as like evil or like dangerous creature or they treat that way.

And then all the methods are treated that way.

That also is a misunderstanding.

It's not like that.

And then some people think that karma is originally there.

So,

You know,

It's kind of not created.

It's already there.

So then you cannot do really about anything and instead only experiencing the consequences,

But you cannot do much.

So that also is wrong.

So some or many people that karma is only thinking in this life or the previous life,

Only one life early and one life next time,

Or they can't think any further.

So you have to think innumerable lifetimes.

Okay,

The karma you have in your mind stream.

So we have to understand that.

But people have very limited understanding of karma.

So then when they have some belief in karma,

Believe in Buddha or believe in God or whatever,

And they have challenges come and if they try to be good and try to make good karma or something,

But still have bad luck,

Keep coming and then they think that's not true.

So this is also a wrong understanding.

So what is karma really is,

Is karma is not a permanent,

Is also not is a Pramadhi.

So the karma is always temporary,

Is always created by yourself.

And then and you can adjust it or you can eradicate everything is possible.

Why?

Because karma means basically is action.

So action means,

You know,

We nobody live without actions,

Without actions ever we live in 24 seven.

Even we are sleep,

We still doing actions in our mind.

So that means everybody creating karma in 24 seven.

So that means every creation karma is either contribute or your previous karma to ready to ripen,

You know,

Or you destroy in the previous karma,

Which means whether a negative karma,

Negative karma or positive karma,

You know,

Negative karma means you have bad consequences,

Experience or positive karma means you have a good experience,

You know,

So the consequence.

So this both if you keep doing good,

Good,

Good things,

You already contributing already good ones you have in the past.

You contributing that and then like one experience good things happens,

Maybe a million karma together.

So that means you are already hundred thousand,

A few hundred thousand you already have.

So you kept doing this good things.

So then we are finished,

Become a million.

Then the good things happened.

Let's say you have meet a good partner or,

You know,

Like your business established or something good thing happens is you cannot expect just one karma,

A few karma,

A good karma you make and then you expect happened.

You cannot because you don't know how many karma,

Good karmas need to ripen this and how many good karma you already have.

You don't know that.

But the good thing is if you keep doing good things,

You training on your own mind to become have a good habit,

To think in good way and,

You know,

Like be more thoughtful and more grateful and more altruistic and more thinking others.

And,

You know,

All these good actions of your mind kept doing,

Kept doing this.

All of them always contributing positive karma,

The same term destroy your negative karmas waiting there to other conditions,

Bad karmas waiting for.

But they have no chance to complete because you keep doing good karmas.

So that's why either they totally destroy or either delay,

Delay to experience these bad consequences.

So that's why you may never experience or even you one day have to experience something but it's become a manner.

So that means,

Let's say you have something very difficult,

Like 10 years,

Incredible hardship,

Difficult karma you already have,

But only missing three conditions.

They're waiting for only three.

Let's say this is like a million bad karma together,

Waiting for only three.

But the three never have chance.

You keep doing good karma.

So then the million is more less and less and less.

And then finally,

Not enough gave you a hardship on 10 years.

So maybe one day or one month difficult experience and then finish this,

You know,

Like 10 years difficult one and finish here one month,

You know,

This thing happens.

So that's why you have to understand the karma is not permanent and also not primordial.

And they are only temporary and also is one karma you made in this life,

Not necessarily experienced this life.

And one karma you made in the immediate previous life,

You did not necessarily experience this life.

You could experience it a hundred lifetimes later or a thousand lifetimes later or you don't know.

So is everything is contributing each other,

You know,

So that's why it's important to understand.

And you don't have a huge expectations,

You know,

Like you keep doing good karma because always is good to do good karma.

But you cannot expect one good karma or 10 good karma,

A hundred good karma fixed everything.

You cannot expect that.

But either directly or indirectly,

There is incredible benefit you doing,

Keep doing in good karma.

So then that means you at the same time you train in your mind,

Which means that you become enlightened and enlightened and slowly,

Slowly,

More,

More,

More.

You keep doing good karma means slowly,

Slowly.

Eventually you are free from karma.

So you don't even need positive karma.

You don't need negative karma.

Both are free from.

So that will happen in the future.

So that means keep reducing negative karma through the action of positive virtuous actions,

Virtuous thoughts.

And then is the positive karma,

Virtuous is much more powerful than the negative karma.

Then one day you don't even rely,

Not rely on karma,

Which means when we rely on karma means we don't know what happened.

That's why I'm saying we have to keep doing good karma,

But we don't know how it affect very quickly.

We don't know that.

That means we are relying on karma.

We don't know.

We don't have total freedom.

We have only have chance to keep doing good karma,

But we don't have the consequence effective whenever is we cannot decide is karma decide.

So that means karma,

We are under control of the karma,

Even good karma or bad karma.

Either way we are under control of the karma.

But so is one day we can free from this.

But one day we free from that is only start to create more positive karma.

So only that way.

So that's why it's very,

Very extremely important to do this.

But to understand this karma is everything is not the God or not Buddha created this world.

And your happiness,

Your life,

Your previous life,

Everything is not Buddha created.

It's not God created.

It is karma created.

This is very,

Very,

Very,

Very understandable.

It's connected with common sense because,

You know,

Whether you have a good life or good recognition,

Everything is dependent on your actions.

We know,

You know,

Like people knowing long enough,

Then they know you are what kind of person.

So this is the obvious level of karma,

You know,

And then if you this taken in the subtle level,

Subtle level,

That is karma.

So if we say ask,

Oh,

Buddha created these things,

It's the Buddha himself said he never created anything.

He said he cannot transform you even you have to do yourself.

Then if we say,

Oh,

God created and then we have many,

Many questions,

You know,

Like,

OK,

Then is who created God and why God created it?

There is then all the suffering on all problems,

Difficult,

Everything God created.

What for?

You know,

Like God is infinite love.

So why created all these problems?

We have this many,

Many questions,

You know,

Like I'm not saying,

You know,

Like who believes God?

These people is their own way of the benefit on their life.

But if you understand the logic,

If you like the logic,

If you like to make sense in your mind,

Then karma is the answer.

You know,

Because you don't need to create anybody.

You create yourself.

So then everybody is responsible themselves.

But if you can,

Can have courage to responsible all sentient beings,

That's we call a incredible altruistic mind.

So this makes very fast your purification of the negative karma and soon free from karma is make very,

Very fast.

So that's why you have to think the karma is you have to think a new mobile lifetime.

You already have karma.

But all of them waiting for conditions to ripen to real experience the actual consequences to experience.

So then is your choice.

You either contributed to the good ones or could contribute to the bad ones.

I mean,

You want to contribute every day.

You want to contribute good karma or bad karma.

You already have a trillion.

So so then then you make the balance so well.

And then eventually you are free from karma.

So that is the point to understand karma,

The benefit to understand karma.

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Good talk for better understanding of my part as creator🙏🏾🩶

Thank you 🙏

Thank you so much. I really find the logic of this thinking impeccable!

Good explanation thank you 🙏🏽🙏🏽

I come back to this often as a reminder that I am the Creator of my circumstance and at any time I can alter things to change my circumstance. Virtuous actions, virtuous thoughts. 🙏🏾♥️