The Meaning of Karma
How does your life look? How can you live “right?” What life do you choose? You have already traveled far. Regardless of whether you want it or not, all the actions you took and the experiences you underwent are with you as a karmic record, influencing what you do now. However, the important thing is when you seek to choose your life, your power of choice also has the ability to cut off any lingering karmic connections. Of course, this does not mean that the information which is karma just disappears. Like it or not, karmic debt is a real debt you must pay, now or later. However, now you no longer will be led around helplessly by your karma but you can gain insight to use this information to achieve your ends. Prof Ilchi Lee writes many articles about healing society and dahn yoga.
By mentioning karma here, I don’t intend to talk about reincarnation or previous lives. Even if a previous life exists and can be recalled, it has no reality other than as a piece of information expressed in this current lifetime. When you buy a computer, it comes with an operating system installed. This is akin to karma. The operating system is karma. The computer is karma.
Some people buy a computer with Windows 98; some buy it with the latest XP version; others are saddled with an older version such as 3.1 or DOS. Some computers also run with the latest processor chip while some still run an XX286 chip. Just as Windows is already set up in your hardware and your computer is equipped with a processor chip, so is your karma expressed in your physical form and living conditions as soon as you are born. Except here there is no good or bad, or superior or inferior models, for information is essentially all zero. How can one zero be better than another? Your previous lifetimes can be compared to a period in which you installed “programs” and prepared your “computer” to do the work that you need to do in this lifetime. It doesn’t matter whether you recall your previous lifetime or not. It is just information, after all. In fact, instead of saying “record of my life,” it would be more accurate to say “record of a life as recorded in my brain.” Nothing matters except the realization that you are living in the here and now with various piles of information. Only this life is your life, not your previous life or your future incarnations.
January 8, 2009 9:40 pm