Jan 28 2009
What About My Karma?
I was recently talking to a friend and the subject came up about karma. He wanted to know how it fitted in with my Zen practice…
I see karma as something I am creating every day with my thoughts, and my karma are the opinions that are formulated as a result of those thoughts. This is very apparent to me when I am sitting in zazen , aspiring to still the mind so completely still that there are no thoughts entering my mind and I am just totally linked with my life force. My life force expresses itself as my breathing – my inhalations and my exhalations.
As intruding thoughts enter my mind I am creating more karma. Each thought is a seed that will germinate to attract into my consciousness, an effect. Whatever I think, trivial or not so trivial, will become my karma and manifest in my experience. At present, like most other people on this earthly plane, my karma is to resolve my karma thus freeing my mind of that karma.
It is through zazen I aim to resolve my karma. Others interested in resolving karma may do it with their own referred type of meditation, but regardless of the discipline, all paths will eventually lead to ultimate enlightenment.
So the seeds that I sow now whilst stilling the mind in my meditation, willeventually become like a tree growing ever stronger in the light of dawningconsciousness, when the day will come when I will be “karma-less”.
