r urges, prompting us to act in positive or negative ways depending on the type of desires that register in our minds.

It could be described as the fantasies that arise and which we are compelled to play out; our goals and ambitions. One person’s karma will create fantasies of helping people, another, fantasies of harming people; it all depends on his or her past conditioning. Since karma is the results of our actions, and our actions are the result of our underlying karma, a cycle develops unless it’s disrupted. Disrupting it, however, involves the de-conditioning of lifetimes of habits, this takes courage, and meditation helps. Meditation decreases this subconscious karma b

When someone harms us, it’s natural to strike back – an eye for an eye. Or, is it turn the other cheek? Jesus may have had a different slant on things when he disagreed with an authoritative paternal God – Jesus may have understood karma. There are hints that his lost years acquainted Him with Buddhist monks, who by that time, 500 years after the Buddha’s death, had filtered into the Middle East on trade routes.

John the Baptist, whom Jesus respected immensely, was an Essene, and Essenes lived in circumstances very similar to Buddhist monks. This lifestyle, which Jesus took on, a wanderer-teacher, was extremely rare in the Jewish community at that time. So Jesus was different, and karma, rebirth, meditation – these were certainly part of his teachings, although we find little evidence of them in the bible. It has all been erased.

Jesus was onto something when he said we should turn the other cheek; the statement is profound. Although it seems foolish to be a doormat when faced with evil, Jesus claimed otherwise, and the reason He did is because He understood Karma. Karma is simply a boomeranging of our own hatred. And when karma hits us in the form of pain or bad luck, what do we do? We fight back, and this is where we go terribly wrong.

We create karma by causing pain to others. It can be severe karma if we cause pain from a position of revenge and glee when our adversary is harmed, or mild karma if we defend ourselves with no malice intended, Either way, the karma we make will come back on us, if not in this lifetime, in subsequent lifetimes. The important thing is not when or how this old karma hits us, but how we react to it.

If we accept the karma without hitting back – if we simply accept what happens as bad karma, then the karma is paid and we are a little freer. But it’s a different story for the one delivering the karma, because the person harming us is creating karma for themselves, and that will have to be answered to at some later date. So by not reacting, we become freer. Our adversary, by harming us, becomes indebted. Jesus knew this, and this is why He suggested we turn the other cheek. When bad luck hits, it’s really good luck, and when we get back at our adversaries, it’s really bad luck.

When old karma hits, good or bad, and perhaps from other lifetimes, it can do so powerfully and in unusual ways. Sometimes it seems delightful when it hits, but soon becomes disastrous. Other times, it begins as a great misfortune, yet guides one toward an undeniable destiny. Karma, the part of us that continues after death according to Zen monks, and the fundamental underlying consciousness containing all of our past conditioning. Karma manifests in the subconscious as daydreams or urges, prompting us to act in positive or negative ways depending on the type of desires that register in our minds.

It could be described as the fantasies that arise and which we are compelled to play out; our goals and ambitions. One person’s karma will create fantasies of helping people, another, fantasies of harming people; it all depends on his or her past conditioning. Since karma is the results of our actions, and our actions are the result of our underlying karma, a cycle develops unless it’s disrupted. Disrupting it, however, involves the de-conditioning of lifetimes of habits, this takes courage, and meditation helps. Meditation decreases this subconscious karma by

, and karma, rebirth, meditation – these were certainly part of his teachings, although we find little evidence of them in the bible. It has all been erased.

Jesus was onto something when he said we should turn the other cheek; the statement is profound. Although it seems foolish to be a doormat when faced with evil, Jesus claimed otherwise, and the reason He did is because He understood Karma. Karma is simply a boomeranging of our own hatred. And when karma hits us in the form of pain or bad luck, what do we do? We fight back, and this is where we go terribly wrong.

We create karma by causing pain to others. It can be severe karma if we cause pain from a position of revenge and glee when our adversary is harmed, or mild karma if we defend ourselves with no malice intended, Either way, the karma we make will come back on us, if not in this lifetime, in subsequent lifetimes. The important thing is not when or how this old karma hits us, but how we react to it.

If we accept the karma without hitting back – if we simply accept what happens as bad karma, then the karma is paid and we are a little freer. But it’s a different story for the one delivering the karma, because the person harming us is creating karma for themselves, and that will have to be answered to at some later date. So by not reacting, we become freer. Our adversary, by harming us, becomes indebted. Jesus knew this, and this is why He suggested we turn the other cheek. When bad luck hits, it’s really good luck, and when we get back at our adversaries, it’s really bad luck.

When old karma hits, good or bad, and perhaps from other lifetimes, it can do so powerfully and in unusual ways. Sometimes it seems delightful when it hits, but soon becomes disastrous. Other times, it begins as a great misfortune, yet guides one toward an undeniable destiny. Karma, the part of us that continues after death according to Zen monks, and the fundamental underlying consciousness containing all of our past conditioning. Karma manifests in the subconscious as daydreams or urges, prompting us to act in positive or negative ways depending on the type of desires that register in our minds.

It could be described as the fantasies that arise and which we are compelled to play out; our goals and ambitions. One person’s karma will create fantasies of helping people, another, fantasies of harming people; it all depends on his or her past conditioning. Since karma is the results of our actions, and our actions are the result of our underlying karma, a cycle develops unless it’s disrupted. Disrupting it, however, involves the de-conditioning of lifetimes of habits, this takes courage, and meditation helps. Meditation decreases this subconscious karma b

venge and glee when our adversary is harmed, or mild karma if we defend ourselves with no malice intended, Either way, the karma we make will come back on us, if not in this lifetime, in subsequent lifetimes. The important thing is not when or how this old karma hits us, but how we react to it.

If we accept the karma without hitting back – if we simply accept what happens as bad karma, then the karma is paid and we are a little freer. But it’s a different story for the one delivering the karma, because the person harming us is creating karma for themselves, and that will have to be answered to at some later date. So by not reacting, we become freer. Our adversary, by harming us, becomes indebted. Jesus knew this, and this is why He suggested we turn the other cheek. When bad luck hits, it’s really good luck, and when we get back at our adversaries, it’s really bad luck.

When old karma hits, good or bad, and perhaps from other lifetimes, it can do so powerfully and in unusual ways. Sometimes it seems delightful when it hits, but soon becomes disastrous. Other times, it begins as a great misfortune, yet guides one toward an undeniable destiny. Karma, the part of us that continues after death according to Zen monks, and the fundamental underlying consciousness containing all of our past conditioning. Karma manifests in the subconscious as daydreams or urges, prompting us to act in positive or negative ways depending on the type of desires that register in our minds.

It could be described as the fantasies that arise and which we are compelled to play out; our goals and ambitions. One person’s karma will create fantasies of helping people, another, fantasies of harming people; it all depends on his or her past conditioning. Since karma is the results of our actions, and our actions are the result of our underlying karma, a cycle develops unless it’s disrupted. Disrupting it, however, involves the de-conditioning of lifetimes of habits, this takes courage, and meditation helps. Meditation decreases this subconscious karma b

s, becomes indebted. Jesus knew this, and this is why He suggested we turn the other cheek. When bad luck hits, it’s really good luck, and when we get back at our adversaries, it’s really bad luck.

When old karma hits, good or bad, and perhaps from other lifetimes, it can do so powerfully and in unusual ways. Sometimes it seems delightful when it hits, but soon becomes disastrous. Other times, it begins as a great misfortune, yet guides one toward an undeniable destiny. Karma, the part of us that continues after death according to Zen monks, and the fundamental underlying consciousness containing all of our past conditioning. Karma manifests in the subconscious as daydreams or urges, prompting us to act in positive or negative ways depending on the type of desires that register in our minds.

It could be described as the fantasies that arise and which we are compelled to play out; our goals and ambitions. One person’s karma will create fantasies of helping people, another, fantasies of harming people; it all depends on his or her past conditioning. Since karma is the results of our actions, and our actions are the result of our underlying karma, a cycle develops unless it’s disrupted. Disrupting it, however, involves the de-conditioning of lifetimes of habits, this takes courage, and meditation helps. Meditation decreases this subconscious karma b

r urges, prompting us to act in positive or negative ways depending on the type of desires that register in our minds.

It could be described as the fantasies that arise and which we are compelled to play out; our goals and ambitions. One person’s karma will create fantasies of helping people, another, fantasies of harming people; it all depends on his or her past conditioning. Since karma is the results of our actions, and our actions are the result of our underlying karma, a cycle develops unless it’s disrupted. Disrupting it, however, involves the de-conditioning of lifetimes of habits, this takes courage, and meditation helps. Meditation decreases this subconscious karma by actually changing our patterns of action.

Some say that we come from an egg and a sperm, but considering karma and rebirth, human beings result from ignorance and craving, according to Buddhist teachers. Who could comprehend such a thing? The Buddha also rejected the Hindu doctrine of a soul, or Atman. He couldn’t see it. He considered the soul to be merely an extension of the ego invented by the Aryan Hindu priests after they gutted the real understanding of the Indus Valley Civilization and created a religion that would keep the priests in power (We understand and you don’t, so pay us if you want to get to Brahma heaven).

This ego or “I” thought, the Buddha contended, was the root of our confusion, or delusions, and therefore our underlying discontent, like Lamont Cranston, the radio legend and alter-ego of the “Shadow” — that could ‘cloud men’s minds so no one could see him.” Who knows what evil lurks in the minds of men.

The Buddha was not an atheist, nor a nihilist, and definitely not prone to mysticism. But his enlightenment did reveal the entire history of his past lives. This indicated continuity through time but not by the same person, for each past personality had different physical and mental constituents. The thread or connection between these numerous past lives was his karmic tendencies, which not only weaved through each of his lives, but also were the reasons that the physical existences came into being.