Karma part 2 – What Creates Karma ?

what creates karma
What Creates Karma ? Before we can answer what creates karma we need to first define the types of karma. There are basically three different types of karma: Good karma Bad or negative karma Repeating experiential karma Note these definitions of "good" or "bad" are accepted "labels" and are not personal judgments. It may be better to define "good" as those actions which lead to less suffering and more happiness, unity and greater spiritual awareness. "Bad" can be defined as that which leads to less happiness and more isolation, pain and suffering. We must remember "bad" action ultimately leads to understanding through pain and suffering, so all karma, whether "good" or "bad" ultimately leads to greater awareness. This is karma's purpose, to teach and bring the soul to a greater awareness and understandin...
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Uncovering Happiness

happiness is inside, discover it
If happiness is a state of mind, where can we go outside ourselves to find it? We have all read books on many subjects which seem to have a common theme of finding happiness. Most if not all of them highlight the need to know ourselves on a deeper level. In all cases it involves learning new information. This information is presented for one reason, to give us a different perspective. By changing our ideas about something we will start to see things differently. This after all is the key to happiness, because happiness is a state of mind. It does not come from having something, achieving something, retiring, going somewhere or being with someone. It is about finding that happiness inside ourselves. This is where many of us fail. We are looking for something outside ourselves and therefore will never find it because...
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Taking The First Step – Hello World!

The first step - how do we accomplish anything? Every journey we have ever gone on and every chapter of our life experience started with a "First Step." Sometimes those steps are taken unconsciously, accidentally, inadvertently or they are well thought out and planned. Sometimes there is a great deal of fear associated with taking that first step.  The ego is forever trying to protect us and is fearful of anything new.  Maintaining the status quo is safe and well proven. This is why the ego prefers not to take risk. The ego's desire for the status quo can prevent us from achieving many of our desires in life by making us: Procrastinate - The best way to eliminate risk is to put it off indefinitely. Fearful - What if? I might fail; People might laugh at me; People will think I'm stupid; I don't want to risk m...
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